Chaozhou

Chaozhou is a city in the eastern Guangdong region of China. It fringes Shantou toward the south, Jieyang toward the southwest, Meizhou toward the northwest, the area of Fujian toward the east and the South China Sea toward the southeast. It is managed as a prefecture-level city with a purview zone of 3,110 square kilometers and an aggregate populace of 2,669,844. Along with Shantou and Jieyang, Chaozhou is a piece of the Chaoshan locale.

In 214 BC, Chaozhou was an undeveloped and named some portion of Nanhai Commandery of the Qin Dynasty. In 331during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Haiyang was built up as a piece of Dongguan Commandery. The Dongguan Commandery was renamed Yi'an Commandery in 413. The commandery turned into a prefecture in 590 amid the early Sui Dynasty, first as Xun Prefecture, then as Chao Prefecture in the next year. In 1914, the Republic of China government joined the Chao and Xun prefectures into Chaoxun Prefecture or Chaoxun Circuit.

For a brief span in the Sui and early Tang Dynasties, Haiyang District was called Yi'an District. The name remained Haiyang until 1914, when it was renamed to Chao'an County to maintain a strategic distance from uncertainty with the Haiyang County, Shandong. In 1653, the Manchus slaughtered an expected 100,000 in Chaozhou. The seat of the 1951 Guangdong People's Government was at Chao'an County; some portion of it was changed over to Chao'an City in 1953 and soon thereafter renamed Chaozhou City.