Stretching for 4,770m amidst the revolving hills, Badaling Great Wall is dashed with 19 strategically established watchtowers, which were utilised to defend the capital contrary to strike in very vintage times, conveying Badaling the title of "key to the north gate."

On the peak of the partition is a street paved with rectangle clay bricks, broad sufficient for six equines or 10 fighters to stride edge by side. On both edges of the street, outside parapet and inward parapet were set. The outside parapet is crenellated with merlons nearly two meters high. The crenels were utilised as peepholes and the embrasure underneath each crenel was utilised as a loophole. The inward parapet, which is 1 meter high, was utilised to avert the equines and gharries from overturning on the mountains.

Along the partition, there are numerous pointer towers, which were utilised to convey infantry messages. In those pre-electricity days, likely blaze and fumes were the most effective modes for connection (normally blaze was utilised at evening and fumes throughout the day). In 1468, a sequence of guidelines were set to give the exact meanings of these signals: a lone shot and a lone blaze or fumes pointer suggests about 100 foes, two shots and two pointers alerted of five century, three shots and three pointers alerted of over a 1000 and so on. In this way, a note could be conveyed over more than five century kilometers inside a couple of hours.

Badaling fortress, with an elevation of 600 meters, was constructed in 1505. The partitions, constructed in 1571, are 10meter high, 4meters broad and over 1km long in circumference. The fortress has two barrier towers. A tablet inscribed with "outpost to JuyongguanPass" is dangled on the to the east barrier and another one "the Lock on the Northern Gateway" on the western gate. As the entry to Badaling, this fortress is an significant defensive location on the north edge of JuyongguanPass. If Badaling were grabbed, it would be tough to fight back JuyongguanPass. In the Ming dynasty, powerful force was garrisoned there.

East of the fortress lies a gigantic rock, 7 meters long and 2 meters high, this is entitled Watching Beijing Rock. It was said that the Empress Dowager Cixi one time passed here as she escaped to the north when the Eight Allied Forces invaded Beijing in 1900. Making a short halt there, she looked in the direction of Beijing and recalled her snug life in the Forbidden City. Hence the name.

Badaling, the essence of the Great Wall, was recorded as the "World Cultural Heritage" by UNESCO in 1987. In latest years, Badaling Great Wall was fixed and Great Wall Museum, Badaling Great Wall Cableway and other tourism amenities were constructed beside the wall. So far, about 80 million tourists from all over the world, encompassing 300 heads of state and other celebrities from foreign nations travelled to there. Badaling partition, as the observer of the annals, today assists as the ally connection between the Chinese persons and persons from other countries.