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3 unusual facts about Shanhaiguan District


Guandao

The heaviest known "testing guandao", which resides in a museum at Shanhaiguan (山海關), the site of one of the gates on the Great Wall and a Ming Dynasty outpost that marked the division between territories controlled by Han Chinese and Manchu forces, weighs a whopping 83 kilograms.

Jingtong Expressway

Jingha Expressway: Section heading for Shanhaiguan links with Jingha Expressway after the Tongzhou Beiguan Roundabout.

Walter Hillier

A stone memorial was erected to Hillier and to a British military officer at Shan-hai-Kwan to recognise the protection afforded to Chinese during the times following the Boxer Rebellion.


Zhengtai Campaign

The nationalist forces in North China concentrated on protecting important regions including: the BeijingShijiazhuang section of BeijingHankou Railway, the BeijingZhangjiakou section of BeijingSuiyuan Railway, Northern section of Tatong – Fengling Crossing Railway, BeijingShanhaiguan section of BeijingShenyang Railway, and the iron triangular region of BeijingBaodingTianjin region.


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