Heshan, Guangdong

Heshan (鹤山 市, Crane Mountain, Pinyin: Heshan ) is a county -level city in Guangdong Province, China.

Geography

It lies just to the west of the estuary of the Pearl River a few kilometers away to the West River, which roams the city in the northeast. The surface appearance of the town Heshan is flat in the northeastern part, the center, south and west are hilly.

The climate is subtropical to tropical; the average temperature in January is 13 ° C, the average temperature at about July 28 ° C. The annual rainfall is about 1800 mm.

Economy

The GDP of the city amounts to about 21 300 RMB per year (as of 2002), which is well above the provincial average of 15.6 thousand RMB.

Heshan has resources of lead, zinc, copper, phosphorus and marl. The territory of Heshan is relatively rich in forests, in addition to numerous timber plants are recovered from the forests, which are important for the traditional Chinese medicine.

Within the Guangdong Heshan City is a major food producer. Besides rice peanuts, tea, tobacco, sugar cane, jute, fruits and vegetables are grown.

For industry, the city of the foodstuffs, machinery, textile and building materials are of great importance. Important products include cement and other building materials, textiles (including Heshan is among the most important producers of rugs within Asia ), paper, printing products, electrical equipment and chemical products.

Management

The independent city of Heshan belongs to the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. Adjacent are Gaoming in the north, Xinxing in the west, in the southwest of Kaiping, Xinhui and Jiangmen to the southeast, and Nanhai East. The city is made up of eleven large communities:

  • Greater community Shaping (沙坪镇);
  • Greater community Yayao (雅瑶 镇);
  • Greater community Gonghe (共和 镇);
  • Greater community Taoyuan (桃源 镇);
  • Greater community Zhishan (址 山镇);
  • Greater community Yunxiang (云 乡镇);
  • Greater community Hecheng (鹤 城镇);
  • Greater community Zhaiwu (宅 梧 镇);
  • Greater community Shuanghe (双 合 镇);
  • Greater community of Longkou (龙口 镇);
  • Greater community Gulao (古 劳 镇).

Traffic

Heshan is partly due to the Guangzhou - Foshan - Kaiping Highway and is the starting point of a branch highway in the direction of Jiangmen. Parallel to it the important national road 325 Heshan has no rail link and port on the western river has a rather low priority.

22.669461111111112.76401388889Koordinaten: 22 ° 40 'N, 112 ° 46 ' E

Enping - Heshan - Jianghai - Kaiping - Pengjiang - Taishan - Xinhui

  • Location in Guangdong
  • District-free city (China)
Administrative divisions of China Gaoming District Xinxing County Xinhui District Nanhai District Jianghai District Pengjiang District
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