Introduction to Jiangmen

Jiangmen, also known as "Wuyi", is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province. It is located in the west of the Pearl River Delta, on the edge of the South China Sea, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao. It belongs to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area urban agglomeration and is the central city in the western region of the Pearl River Delta. one. In 2017, Jiangmen City had a total area of ??9,505 square kilometers and a permanent population of 4.5617 million.

The landform characteristics of Jiangmen City are low in the north and high in the west, mainly low mountains and hills, and lower in the southwest and southeast. They are mainly river valleys, alluvial plains and a few hills. The ground elevation is between 5 and 40 meters. . The city's mountains and hills cover an area of ??more than 4,400 square kilometers, accounting for 46.8% of the total land area.

The rivers in Jiangmen City belong to the Pearl River system and the coastal rivers in western Guangdong. There are 26 rivers in the city with a catchment area of ??more than 100 square kilometers. The territory is criss-crossed by rivers, and except for the Hexi River that passes through it, four of them are directly connected to the sea.

There are 1,184 species of vascular plants in 183 families, 618 genera and 183 families in Jiangmen City, among which the national key protected plants include redbud, white osmanthus, South China fir, hydrangeas, madder, and acacia. The forest area is 430,492.8 hectares, the forest coverage rate is 46.29%, and the forest greening rate is 93.75%.

There are more than 100 species of wild animals in Jiangmen City, more than 400 species of birds, more than 100 species of snakes, and more than 200 species of insects. There are 24 species of animals under national key protection, accounting for 25.8% of the national key protected animals in Guangdong Province.

Jiangmen is famous for its hometown style of overseas Chinese. There are many overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Wuyi area, all over the world. With the same history, the same geographical and popular origins, and the influence of overseas countries on Wuyi, Jiangmen Wuyi area shows rich folk customs, with unique festivals, weddings, funerals, food, entertainment and other customs .

Jiangmen is an outstanding tourist city in China and an observation point for sustainable tourism development of the United Nations World Tourism Organization. It has the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages, a world cultural heritage, and the "Qiao Pi Archives" of the World Memory Heritage. Jiangmen Enping is the first "China Hot Spring Town".

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As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Jiangmen was a "foreign" place on the Tonghai Yi Road in Guangzhou and a docking place for foreign tribute ships; it is located east of Shangchuan Island in Taishan City Wuzhu Mountain was an important navigation mark on the Maritime Silk Road during the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Shangxiachuan Island was the stronghold of the Portuguese in early trade with China. At that time, some guard camps located along the coasts of Taishan and Xinhui today guarded the Maritime Silk Road. Safety.

Among them, from the Guanghaiwei established in the early Ming Dynasty to the Xindi Catholic Church that has been used until modern times, it covers the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Sichuan Island and Guanghai, and witnesses the "Maritime Silk Road" of "the overseas Chinese in Guangfu" "One Port" (referred to as "Guangqiao First Port") has a glorious history.

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