Chenghai

Chenghai is a locale of the city of Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. Located at the Han River Delta in the southeast piece of Guangdong Province. Chenghai is an essential transportation center point of the zone around east Guangdong, the southeast piece of Fujian and south Jiangxi Province, which is known as the "Passage of East Guangdong". The aggregate region of this region is 345.23 square kilometers. Chenghai was known as one of "Eight Counties of Chaozhou" in Qing Dynasty and Republic of China period.

It was established as a region in 1563 AD, consolidating by the waterfront lands isolated from Haiyang County, Jieyang County and Raoping County, and under Chao Prefecture's locale. The name Chenghai, signifying "clear the Wokou of the sea", was utilized as the province name because of the Jiajing wokou attacks, which additionally showed the reason of Chenghai's establishment. Chenghai was broken down in 1666 when Kangxi Emperor prohibited on remote exchange however re-established seven years after the fact. In 1860, Shantou, which lied in the southwest of Chenghai, was opened for nonnatives and turned into an exchanging port as indicated by Treaty of Tientsin.