WANPING fortress was built in 1638, during the reign of Emperor of the Ming dynasty. The main purpose of the construction of the fortress was to protect Beijing from the rebels of Czuchna. Before the fortress was called Gonczi and for a long time was the center of the city with the same name. In 1937 he launched the Second Sino-Japanese war, which was marked by the shelling WANPING fortress and bridge.

In the mid 20th century in Beijing began construction of the second ring road, so most of the walls of the fortress was destroyed and demolished. A little later were restored some of its sections.

The walls of the fortress built by the rectangle. The length of all the walls is equal to 640 meters. The fortress has two gates, which are located in the East and the West. Also there is a bridge, located on the West side. Inside the fortress is the street that leads from one gate to another. It is a Museum of the Second Chinese war, and various shops selling goods for tourist Souvenirs and postcards. A little farther down the street there is a well-preserved residential neighborhoods as well as the Museum of traditional life and culture of the Chinese population.

The fortress itself surrounded on all sides by beautiful green parks, which offer many different sculptures. Also the sculptures and statues are inside the fortress, such as the sculpture of Emperor Kangxi and Qianlong, who belonged to the Qing dynasty.

Before the entrance to the bridge Marco Polo various sculptures of everyday and historical themes. For example, the huge sculpture "Awakened lion". In 2000, opened a "sculpture Garden", fully devoted to military actions of China against Japan. The area of the garden – 2, 5 hectares, and in its center stands a stele, with a height of 15 meters, with written Jiang Cimina text. The garden itself is surrounded by a huge beautiful Park, with an area of 8 hectares.

Along one of the walls of the fortress are placed rows of stone barrels, engraved with the list of crimes of the Japanese military in those days, when there was a war. By 2000, there were about 2700, but the administration of the Museum decided that the barrels take up much space, so most of the barrels had been moved to the Park nearby. Now there are barrels there are only about 500 pieces.