Meizhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan provinces, bordering Longyan and Zhangzhou in Fujian Province in the east, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei in the south, Heyuan in the west and Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province in the north. Under the jurisdiction of Meijiang District, Meixian District, Pingyuan County, Jiaoling County, Tai Po County, Fengshun County and Wuhua County, it is in charge of Xingning City. The total area is 15,800 square kilometres. at the end of 2020, the registered population was 5,439,600 and the resident population was 3,873,200.
Meizhou is a regional centre city of Fujian-Guangdong-Ganjiang border, a national pilot area for the construction of ecological civilization, a pioneer area for the rise of green in Guangdong and a special area for cultural tourism, an open coastal economic zone, one of the cities in the Shantou-Jiaojiang metropolitan area and one of the cities in the economic zone on the west coast of the Strait.
Meizhou is the main starting point for the spread of Hakka since the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is the most representative Hakka settlement in the world, known as the "Hakka capital of the world". In 2013, the China (Meizhou) Migration Memorial Square, the only migration memorial project in China set up by UNESCO, was completed in Songkou Town, Meizhou County, and the World Hakka Migration Exhibition Hall was officially opened. opened, and the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala was successfully held in 2013.
Meizhou is the hometown of Marshal Ye Jianying, a famous old revolutionary area, a base for cross-strait exchanges, and the only prefecture-level city in Guangdong whose entire territory falls within the former Central Soviet Area. Meizhou is a national historical and cultural city, a national demonstration zone for ecological civilisation, a national experimental zone for the ecological protection of Hakka culture, a cultural capital of East Asia, an excellent tourist city of China, a national garden city, a national sanitary city, a national forest city, and a famous cultural town, a town of overseas Chinese, a town of football, a town of generals, a town of longevity, a town of golden grapefruit, a town of hot springs, a town of Hakka cuisine, and a town of safe.
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