Datong City Wall

The wall of Datong stands in Pingcheng District, on a line that reaches back to the Northern Wei; the wall now standing is Ming. In 1372 the general Xu Da enlarged it on the foundations of the Liao, Jin and Yuan city, with four gates, barbicans and a moat. The circuit measures 7,270.7 metres, the wall is about fourteen metres high, the ground inside covers 2.63 square kilometres, and the moat runs forty metres outside the wall at a width of about ten metres. Its brick facing was taken off around 1952; from 2008 the city rebuilt the wall, and on 18 November 2016 the circuit was closed and the moat connected.