Jinshanling Great Wall in Hebei

The Jinshanling Great Wall is located on the Greater and Lesser Jinshanling in Bakushiyang, Luanping County, Hebei Province. It is an important part of the Great Wall from the Ming Dynasty. In the first year of the Longqing era of the Ming Dynasty (1567), Qi Jiguang was stationed in the northern border and continued to build numerous enemy towers and battle platforms, making it the most complex and densely arranged section of the Great Wall. The Jinshanling Great Wall starts from Wangjing Tower in the east and stretches to Longyukou in the west, with a total length of about 15 kilometers. The walls are generally about 7 meters high, 6 meters wide at the bottom, and 5 meters wide at the top, allowing five horses to ride abreast. On this section of the Great Wall, there is a dense distribution of enemy towers, battle platforms, and barracks, with a total of 158 towers and platforms. As the most well-preserved section of the Ming Great Wall, the Jinshanling Great Wall has profound archaeological value and is of great significance for studying the history of the Ming Dynasty in China and the life of Qi Jiguang. In 1988, the Jinshanling Great Wall was announced by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as the third batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units.