Introduction to Songkou Town

Songkou Town belongs to Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, and is located in the northeast of the region and on the lower reaches of the Meijiang River. It is a key town in the country. After the merger of Songkou, Songdong and Songnan towns, it has become the largest town in Meixian District, with a total population of more than 73,000 and an area of ??328.6 square kilometers1. Songkou Town is one of the four ancient towns in Lingnan in ancient times. It is the core area of ??Meizhou Cultural Tourism Characteristic Zone in Guangdong. Songkou Port used to be the second largest inland port in Guangdong. The Mei-Kan Railway, Provincial Highway S223 Line, S332 Line and Meizhou City The national defense highway from Baidu Town in Meixian District to Dapu Sanheba runs through the town. It is an important distribution center for commerce and trade in surrounding towns and villages. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times and is one of the ancient battlefields in history. Songkou is an ancient town with a history of 1,200 years and has rich historical and cultural relics. Because it is located at the strategic crossroads between Fujian and Guangdong, and with developed waterways in the old days, Songkou Town also became the first stop for Hakkas from the Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi regions to travel to Southeast Asia in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. 2 At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of Han people from Tingzhou Prefecture counties in Fujian Province moved into Songkou. Most of these Han people came from Shibi, Ninghua County, Fujian Province. The Han people who moved to Songkou lived and worked in peace and contentment in this hot land, multiplied and developed rapidly. After the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the population of Songkou exploded and many people moved to other places to make a living, and some of them went to the Nanyang Islands to make a living. Today, there are about 70,000 people in Songkou Town, and there are more than 80,000 overseas Chinese living abroad. It is one of the famous hometowns of overseas Chinese in China. Songkou is rich in Hakka cultural resources, and the fragrance of Hakka culture is everywhere. It is a place with a prosperous literary style and developed education, and enjoys the reputation of a hometown of culture, a hometown of overseas Chinese, and a hometown of folk songs. Focusing on the goal of "building a new district, renovating old districts, and shaping a new image of Songkou", Songkou Town has accelerated the pace of development and integrated the Songkou Town Government of Meixian District, Meizhou City, the Second People's Hospital of Meixian District, Meizhou City, police stations, courts, local taxation, land, and traffic management and other departments were newly built in the Sikeng New Development Zone, and efforts were made to renovate old areas, such as Zhongshan Road, Laoaiqunlou and Fazheng Road, etc., and urbanization construction has begun to take shape.