If you are(interest) in both China's ancient finance and architecture, Pingyao is a place you can't miss.
The Ancient City of Ping Yao, (locate) in the central Shanxi Province, China, is well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city. Its walls are about 12 meters high, and three to five meters wide at the top. The western and eastern sides of walls have two gates the southern and northern walls each have one gate only.
From the 19th century the early 20th century, Pingyao, (control) almost half of the economy of the country at its booming period, was a financial center for the whole of China. There (be) once over twenty draft banks' head offices, whose (branch) were distributed widely around the whole country, even in some western and southeastern countries.
Today when other Chinese cities have been more than happy to bury their history under skyscrapers, this (origin) Chinese Wall Street chooses not to. Ordinary people still live in the Chinese traditional courtyards as they did in the past. This city is helping Chinese rediscover the value of (preserve) what little is left of the country's ancient buildings.
