The Western Qing tombs lie in the hills at Yixian, south-west of Beijing, and were used from the Yongzheng reign onward. Four emperors are buried here, with their empresses and consorts, in separate walled compounds spread across a valley. The site entered the World Heritage list in 2000 together with the Eastern tombs at Zunhua, as the two parts of one Qing imperial tomb property.
The Western Qing tombs fill a valley under the Yongning mountain in Yi County, south-west of Beijing, with four imperial mausoleums laid out from 1729 into the twentieth century. The site is the western half of the single World Heritage property inscribed in 2000 with the Eastern tombs.