How is the city Zhaoqing?

Zhaoqing is more suitable for life, with rich cultural heritage, small urban area, beautiful environment, not serious pollution, and consumption level is at the medium level of Guangdong.

Zhaoqing is a national historical and cultural city. From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Zhaoqing became the political, economic and cultural center of Lingnan many times. At the same time, Zhaoqing Fengkai (known as Guangxin in ancient times) is the birthplace of Guangfu culture and the birthplace of Cantonese. Zhaoqing is also the earliest intersection between Central Plains culture and Lingnan culture, Western culture and traditional Chinese culture.

Zhaoqing has convenient transportation and obvious location advantages. It is adjacent to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao to the east, and has the southwest of the motherland at its back. It is an important transportation hub from economically developed areas to southwestern provinces. Today, Zhaoqing is working hard to integrate into the Guangzhou-Foshan-Zhaoqing "half-hour" and the Greater Bay Area "one-hour" traffic circles.

Zhaoqing has beautiful scenery and rich tourism resources. Qixingyan in the urban area is known as "the first wonder in Lingnan"; Dinghu Mountain is a national nature reserve.

Zhaoqing Geographic Environment

Zhaoqing City is located in the mid-western part of Guangdong Province and the middle reaches of the Xijiang River. It borders Foshan City in the east and southeast, Yunfu City in the southwest, and Wuzhou, Guangxi in the west and northwest. The city borders Hezhou City, and is adjacent to Qingyuan City in the north and northeast. The total land area is 14,900 square kilometers, of which low mountains and hills account for about 81% of the city's land area, and plains and rivers account for 19% of the total area.

The terrain of Zhaoqing City is high in the northwest, low in the east and south, and slopes from northwest to southeast. Mainly medium and low mountains and hills, with few plains, forming a mountainous landform with mountains, basins, hills, alluvial plains and other forms alternately distributed. Mountains and hills are mainly distributed in the north and northeast, and valley plains are distributed in the southeast.

The two major water systems in Zhaoqing City are the Xijiang River (the second largest river in China after the Yangtze River in terms of runoff) and the Beijiang River. The Xijiang River flows from west to east in Sanshui District, where it joins the Beijiang River and flows into the Pearl River.