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Introduction to Pingyao Ancient City

Pingyao Ancient City is a well-preserved historical city and the prototype of ancient Chinese cities. The ancient city pool has a total area of ??2.25 square kilometers and is still home to 42,000 urban residents. It basically maintains the historical style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the mid-to-late 19th century, Pingyao Ancient City was one of the cities with the most developed financial industry. It is the location of the most influential contemporary bank headquarters and the location of the financial industry headquarters and the place with the highest concentration of financial industry headquarters institutions. . Once manipulated and controlled China's modern financial industry. The ancient city of Pingyao has had a positive impact on China's modern economic development during its more than 100 years of prosperity.

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Pingyao, Shanxi, is known as one of the "four best-preserved ancient cities" and is also the only country in China that has successfully applied for a world cultural heritage as an entire ancient city. One of the two ancient cities. Pingyao Ancient City was included in the World Cultural Heritage List in 1997.

In 2009, Pingyao Ancient City was rated as the most complete ancient county town in China by the World Records Association.

On July 13, 2015, Pingyao Ancient City became a national 5A tourist attraction.

On November 19, 2017, it won the annual tourist destination reputation award.

The first batch of national research and practice education bases for primary and secondary school students.