During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, "Kaiping Tun" was established, and it was named "Kaiping", which means "opening and repressing peace". Kaiping is known as the "Hometown of Culture and Art". It has successfully passed the re-evaluation of the Hometown of Chinese Photography and the Hometown of Chinese Quyi, and Shuikou Town has been rated as the Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art. Nurturing a number of historical celebrities, such as: patriotic overseas Chinese leader Situ Meitang, overseas Chinese leader Li Guowei, Deng Yinnan; proletarian revolutionary martyrs Zhou Wenyong, Chen Tiejun, Deng Yifei, Tan Guobiao; Chinese medicine master Deng Tietao; war reporter Sha Fei; famous Painter Situ Qiao; Cantonese Opera master, Red Line Girl, etc. It has 1 national intangible cultural heritage (Pancun Lantern Festival) and 4 provincial intangible cultural heritages (Kaiping gray sculpture, Kaiping song, Jinsheng lion drum production technology and Guanghe fermented bean curd brewing technology). The former residence of Situ Meitang and Kaiping Fengcaitang were rated as national key cultural relics protection units.

Known as the "Hometown of Overseas Chinese", it has rich and unique overseas Chinese affairs resources. There are 782,000 overseas Chinese, Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots in 79 countries and regions in the world. Kaiping watchtowers and villages are the only world cultural heritage in Guangdong Province. The "Overseas Chinese Approval Archives" with Kaiping Yinxin as an important part was successfully applied for the World Heritage List and was selected into the "Memory of the World Heritage List". 

Known as the "Hometown of Diaolou", it has the first world cultural heritage in Guangdong Province - "Kaiping Diaolou and Villages" and Jiangmen's first national 5A-level tourist attraction "Kaiping Diaolou Cultural Tourism Zone". It has won the titles of China's Excellent Tourism City, National Garden City, Civilized City in Guangdong Province, and the Second Batch of Global Tourism Demonstration Zones in Guangdong Province. It is also known as the "Hometown of World Famous Chefs", and the brand influence of "Kaiping Family Banquet" has gradually increased. Chikan claypot rice, Chikan tofu corner, Magang noodles, Magang cowhide, lily dumplings, etc. are full of "overseas Chinese flavor" The specialties are widely loved. The ecological environment is excellent, and it has been approved to create a national practice and innovation base of “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”. The city’s forest coverage rate reaches 45.87%. Dasha Town was awarded the title of “Lingnan Ecological Climate Symbol and Urban Natural Oxygen Bar” by the Guangdong Meteorological Society. The urban water network is vertical and horizontal, relying on bridges to build the beautiful scenery of "three rivers, six banks and eighteen bridges". Major cultural tourism projects such as the overseas Chinese cultural exhibition tourism project in Chikan Ancient Town are being accelerated.

Actively integrate into the road network construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and basically build a comprehensive system with "five high-speed railways" as the main framework, major national and provincial highways and ring roads as main arteries, and county-township highways and roads leading to natural villages as fulcrums. The transportation network can achieve the goal of a half-hour urban area, a one-hour economic life circle in the city area and the surrounding areas of Jiangmen, and achieve rapid access within two hours with the core urban circles of the Greater Bay Area in Guangfo and Zhuhai. In terms of highway traffic, the city's highway mileage is 1,636.59 kilometers. In terms of rail transportation, the Jiangzhan Railway has been completed and put into operation, with Kaiping South Station, with a domestic mileage of 25 kilometers. In terms of ports and waterways, the city's shipping mileage is 104 kilometers; Sanbugang Wharf is the main external port, and has the qualifications of a national first-class passenger port and a second-class freight port. Air transportation is planning to build Chishui Airport as a general airport.

In terms of the primary industry, it was awarded the national "safe agricultural machinery" demonstration county, and successfully established a national demonstration county for the whole process of mechanization of major crop production. A total of 14 key agricultural leading enterprises above the provincial level have been cultivated. The provincial modern agricultural industrial park of poultry successfully passed the acceptance inspection, Magang Goose was certified by the National Geographical Indication of Agricultural Products, and Dasha Tianlu Tea was successfully registered as a Chinese Geographical Indication Certification Mark. In terms of the secondary industry, Cuishan Lake High-tech Zone was included in the Announcement Catalogue of China Development Zones in 2018. In 2019, it was upgraded to an independent provincial industrial park, undertaking the brand of Jiangmen Industrial Transfer Industrial Park (Demonstration Park), and was recognized as a provincial-level high-tech industry in 2020. development zone. Kaiping is named as China's textile industry base city, China's plumbing and sanitary ware production base, and a national food industry strong city. In terms of the tertiary industry, we insisted on taking all-for-one tourism as the starting point, and became the ninth observation point of tourism sustainable development of the United Nations World Tourism Organization in China and the first in Guangdong Province. It was selected as one of the first batch of China's intoxicating photography tourism destinations, China's self-driving tourism destination cities and the second batch of Guangdong Province's all-for-one tourism demonstration areas. In terms of construction industry, in 2018, it was awarded the "Hometown of Construction in China", and a newly established construction industry alliance was established. In 2021, the total output value of the construction industry will reach 21.055 billion yuan, accounting for 57.29% of the total output value of Jiangmen's construction industry. Kaiping construction enterprises have won 6 times. "Luban Prize". 

In 2021, the city's GDP will reach 43.845 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%, 1.2 percentage points higher than the target at the beginning of the year. The added value of industries above designated size was 12.160 billion yuan, an increase of 17.1%; the investment in fixed assets was 29.529 billion yuan, an increase of 6.3%; the industrial investment was 10.860 billion yuan, an increase of 23.8%; the total retail sales of social goods was 18.222 billion yuan, an increase of 9.9%; The local general public budget revenue was 3.165 billion yuan, an increase of 9.2%; the total value of foreign trade import and export was 16.24 billion yuan, an increase of 23.4%. Among them, four indicators of industrial added value above designated size, fixed asset investment, industrial investment, and local general public budget revenue are higher than the average level of Jiangmen, and the growth rate of three indicators of fixed asset investment, industrial investment and tax revenue ranks first in Jiangmen.