Kaiping Liyuan was built by Mr. Xie Weili, an overseas Chinese living in the United States, in the 1920s. It lasted ten years and was first built in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1936).

Before liberation, the pear garden suffered many misfortunes. Since it was ravaged by Japanese devils, it violently hit the 30-mm-thick iron fence, and then gradually became barren after bandits entered and looted property.

After liberation, in order to preserve the whole picture, the county people's government allocated funds for maintenance many times.

1957, Tao Zhu, the first secretary of zhongnanju, inspected the pear garden and instructed to protect everything in the garden. Liyuan used to be a sanatorium for retired cadres of the Central South Bureau.

On March 23rd 1983, the Kaiping County People's Government listed Liyuan as the first batch of county-level cultural relics protection units.

19991June 10, the owner's wife, Ms. Xie Yu Qiong Yao (widow of Xie Weili), happily signed a contract with the Kaiping Municipal People's Government of the United States, sincerely entrusted the Municipal People's Government to keep it for 25 years, and then agreed to keep it for another 25 years, with a total storage period of 50 years.