Baku, October 12, AZERTAC Located at the north river bank of Yangtze River in Zhong County, 32km from Zhong County and 190km from Chongqing City, China, Shibaozhai Pagoda is actually a rocky and craggy hill on the river side.It is a “National AAAA Tourist Attraction” and has been praised as one of the “Top 7 Wonders in China” and the “World 8 Strange Constructions” by the US Discovery Channel. This rock hill is about 200 meters tall, and according to the legend, this huge rock was a colorful stone left by Goddess Nvwa when she repaired the sky, thus it's called Shibao (means precious stone). While in Ming Dynasty, Tan Hong, the leader of peasant uprising, had taken this place as its fortress, thus this place was named as Shibaozhai, literally means Precious Stone Fortress in Chinese. Shibaozhai is a tourism resort which combines mountain scene, water scene and ancient architecture into one. With so many great and special features, Shaibaozhai Pagoda is reputed as the “Bright Pearl on Yangtze River”.Shibaozhai Pagoda is a wooden pagoda built along the cliff face of Shibaozhai. First built in Qing Dynasty by the local craftsmen, Shibaozhai Pagoda is the existing largest wooden architecture with crossing bracket type. The pagoda is 12 layers in total, with a height of 56 meters, and all of them were made of wooden, without using any single nail in the construction. The pagoda originally had only nine layers, which indicates the nine levels of the heaven. The top three layers were constructed in 1956 when repairing the pagoda. The overall layout of Shibaozhai Pagoda was designed according to the topography of the cliff, while parts of the pagoda were processed flexibly. No matter the arrangement of the axis, the position of the front door, the design of the stairway in the pagoda or the appearance of the pagoda are designed imaginatively. It is considered a pearl among the southern architectures in China.