Maoming

Maoming is positioned in southwestern Guangdong province, China. Facing the South China Sea to the town's south, Maoming city friends Zhanjiang within the west and is 362 kilometers from Guangzhou and 121 kilometer from Zhanjiang. The Maoming Port is a Grade I port that handled 16.8 million heaps of shipment in 2007. Refined oil and aquatic merchandise are the principal export products from the town. Major export locations consist of Hong Kong, Macao and ASEAN member nations. The city is called after Jin Dynasty Taoist student and medical doctor Pan Maoming, born in Gaozhou. The neighborhood location become renamed by imperial decree in honour of Pan in 598 A.D.

In the course of the Sui Dynasty. During the early improvement of Chinese civilization within the Wei and Yellow River valleys and across the North China Plain, the area round Maoming was held through the Baiyue. After the Qin invaded inside the overdue 3rd century bc, the region changed into divided into Nanhai, Xiang, and Guilin. Maoming County become hooked up underneath the Sui. Under the Qing, it comprised a part of Gaozhou Prefecture. Following the Chinese Civil War, Maoming became the primary network in the vicinity and turned into raised to county-stage town repute in 1959.