Kaiping

Kaiping, is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China. It is located in the Pearl River Delta and administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. The area is the ancestral homeland of many overseas Chinese, The locals speak a variant of the Taishan dialect.Under the Qing, Kaiping County made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing. It was promoted to county-level city status in 1993. Kaiping City is located 140 kilometres away from Guangzhou, in the southwestern part of the Pearl River Delta. Kaiping consists of three port cities: Changsha, Xinchang, and Dihai.

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages very close to the town of Kaiping there are a number of small villages and small houses that have been built by oversea Chinese during the beginning of the 20th century. Liyuan the best preserved and renovated of all the villages and hosts a museum about overseas Chinese culture.It was constructed by Kaiping overseas Chinese Mr. Xie Weili and the Li Garden was named after him. This garden is famous for its perfect mixed complex of the western and the oriental. Li