Shantou

Shantou, formerly romanized as Swatow and now and again referred to as Santow, is a prefecture-degree city on the jap coast of Guangdong, China, with a total populace of 5,391,028 as of 2010 and an administrative vicinity of 2,064 square kilometres. Shantou, a city big in 19th-century Chinese records as one of the treaty ports hooked up for Western trade and phone, was one of the authentic special financial zones of China hooked up inside the 1980s, however did not blossom within the way that cities along with Shenzhen, Xiamen and Zhuhai did.

It remains japanese Guangdong's financial centre, and is home to Shantou University, a member of the Project 211 organization. Shantou was a fishing village part of Tuojiang Du, Jieyang County for the duration of the Song dynasty. It came to be called Xialing at some point of the Yuan dynasty. In 1563, Shantou was a part of Chenghai County in Chao Prefecture. As early as 1574, Shantou were called Shashanping. In the 17th century, a cannon platform referred to as Shashantou Cannon turned into made right here, and the location name later become shortened to "Shantou". Locally it's been referred to as Kialat. You can come and explore this place.