What is Shaoguan City?

The urban area of ??Shaoguan is Zhenjiang District.

Introduction to Zhenjiang District:

Zhenjiang District is located in the northeast of Shaoguan City, east of Wujiang and Beijiang, bordering Qujiang District to the east and south, and Wujiang District and Lechang to the west. Shaoguan City, connected to Renhua County to the north, is one of the three districts under the jurisdiction of Shaoguan City and is the political, economic, cultural and information center of Shaoguan City. It was established as a district in November 1975 and upgraded to a county-level district in June 1984 with the approval of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government.

In May 2004, Shaoguan City implemented some administrative division adjustments, placing the administrative area of ??the former Beijiang District and the former Lishi Town and Huaping Town of Qujiang County under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang District. It currently governs 5 towns and 5 offices, with a land area of ??572.1 square kilometers. At the end of 2017, the registered population of the district was 325,400, and the actual population was 535,400.

Main economic indicators. In 2017, the total production value was 22.937 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries were 701 million yuan, 3.45 billion yuan and 18.78 billion yuan respectively. The ratio of the three major industries was adjusted to 3.1:15:81.9; social consumer goods Total retail sales were 23.68 billion yuan, fixed asset investment was 6.25 billion yuan, and general public budget area revenue was 288 million yuan.

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Introduction to Shaoguan:

Shaoguan is an outstanding tourist city in China, a national dual-support model city, a national sanitary city, a national garden city, and a national financial ecology. City and ecological civilization construction pilot area, a famous historical and cultural city, civilized city, sanitary city, garden city, forestry ecological city and ecological development zone in Guangdong Province. It is a regional central city planned and constructed by Guangdong Province and the core city of Shaoguan Metropolitan Area. One of the national transportation hub cities.

Shaoguan has produced numerous celebrities in the past dynasties, including Hou Andu, an important minister of the Chen Dynasty, Zhang Jiuling, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty, Yu Jing, a famous minister of the Song Dynasty, and other outstanding figures. The poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties, such as Han Yu, Su Dongpo, and Yang Wanli, all left poems praising Shaoguan. A masterpiece of landscape poetry. Dr. Sun Yat-sen twice led the National Revolutionary Army in Shaoguan to prepare for the Northern Expedition. The world-famous 25,000-mile Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army once left its footprints in Shaoguan. Revolutionaries such as Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, and Chen Yi all fought in Shaoguan.

There are 99 towns (streets) and 4,796 natural villages in the city that are old revolutionary areas. Shaoguan is the place where the ancient Central Plains culture and the southern Baiyue culture met. It is one of the settlements of the Hakka ethnic group. There are more than 300 Hakka enclosed buildings preserved. Shaoguan is dominated by Cantonese and Hakka dialects. The Yao, She and other ethnic minorities still retain their own languages ??for internal communication. There are many cultural relics in the territory, with 2,831 immovable cultural relics of various types, including 9 national key cultural relics protection units, 47 Guangdong Provincial cultural relics protection units, and 23 city and county-level cultural relics protection units. There are 5 national-level intangible cultural heritage items, 14 provincial-level intangible cultural heritage items, and 41 municipal-level intangible cultural heritage items.

Reference materials: Shaoguan—Shaoguan People’s Government? Zhenjiang District—Shaoguan People’s Government