Meizhou

Meizhou is a prefecture-stage town in japanese Guangdong province, China. It has a place of 15,864.51 km2, and a population of 4.33 million at the 2010 census. It incorporates Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning City and 5 counties. Its constructed-up or metro place made from two districts become domestic to 935,516 population on the 2010 census. The call Meizhou comes from the Mei River and the Chinese name for the plum blossom.

Meizhou was established as the prefecture of Jingzhou throughout the Southern Han. It became Meizhou on the time of Northern Song dynasty and Jiaying Prefecture during the Qing dynasty. After several next shifts of jurisdiction, it have become Meizhou City in 1988. Meizhou is now a cited ancient and cultural city. Meizhou is rich in mineral and tourism assets. It has 48 forms of minerals such as coal, iron, limestone, uncommon clay and porcelain clay among others.

Of those reserves manganese is ranked first in Guangdong Province. Meizhou has plenty of water sources, hot springs and certified mineral waters. There are tourism assets inclusive of cultural historical websites built for the duration of the Tang Dynasty, former residences of tremendous figures, natural scenery of a wide iety, and precise Hakka cultural sights.