Zhaoqing
Zhaoqing (肇庆 市, pinyin: shì Zhaoqing ) is a prefecture -level city in Guangdong Province, China.
Geography
Zhaoqing is located about 90 km west of Guangdong's capital city Guangzhou. There she is on the West River, which surrounds the inner city area on three sides. North of this hill lay out. On the opposite bank lies the district-free city Gaoyao, which is itself part of Zhaoqing. In the northern part of the actual downtown area is the Xinghu (星湖, Sternsee ).
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 1630 mm.
History
Zhaoqing contributed by the year 1118 the name Duanzhou, the innermost of the municipality bears to this day. In 1118, the first year of the reign of Emperor Chonghe the Song Dynasty Zhaoqing and given its present name, which means about the beginning of joy and happiness.
Economy
Zhaoqing is an industrial town, the very strong growth, especially since 1978. The regional government provides special support for the export-oriented industry, the economic structure in the region around Zhaoqing has therefore changed in the past 20 years from an agricultural to an industrial embossing embossing. Major industrial sectors are electronics, machinery, chemical industry, plastics processing industry, production of agricultural equipment, textile industry, pharmaceutical manufacturing and the processing of agricultural products. In the region around Zhaoqing beside rice is primarily sugar cane, peanuts, vegetables, lotus and plants are grown for the traditional Chinese medicine.
With a GDP per capita of around 20 350 RMB in 2002, Zhaoqing is located with respect to the income well above the provincial average of Guangdong.
Management
Zhaoqing is made up of two districts, two urban districts and four counties:
- (1) City District Duanzhou (端州 区), 152 km ², 320,000 inhabitants;
- ( 2) the municipality Dinghu (鼎湖 区), 506 km ², 150,000 inhabitants;
- (3) City Gaoyao (高要 市), 2206 km ², approximately 730,000 inhabitants;
- (4) City Sihui (四 会 市), 1258 km ², 420,000 inhabitants;
- ( 5) circle Guangning (广 宁县), 2380 km ², approximately 540,000 inhabitants;
- (6 ) circle Huaiji (怀集 县), 3573 km ², approximately 930,000 inhabitants;
- ( 7) circle Fengkai (封开县), 2723 km ², approximately 470,000 inhabitants;
- ( 8) Deqing county (德庆 县), 2258 km ², approximately 350,000 inhabitants.
Duanzhou is in the northwest, west and south of Gaoyao, bounded on the northeast and east of Dinghu. Duanzhou consists of four road districts and two large communities.
Traffic
Zhaoqing is located on the railway line from Guangzhou to the west by Maoming; the station lies on the northwestern suburbs. There are regular train services to Guangzhou and Maoming and Zhanjiang in the direction of a daily train to Kowloon ( Hong Kong).
In addition, the city is located on the highway from Guangzhou and Foshan Sanshui further Yunfu and Guangxi; the freeway leads quite far south past Zhanjiang, however, there is a separate feeder. Furthermore, crosses the National Road 321, the city area. Guangzhou can be reached from Zhaoqing out in 1.5 hours.
Zhaoqing has a newly built and modern port, which is used for freight and passenger transport. Regular ships Hong Kong and Macau can be reached within 4 hours.
Culture
Located in Zhaoqing Mei'an temple, in which the Zhaoqing Museum is housed today, the Old City Wall of Zhaoqing, and the stone inscriptions in the Seven - Star Rock (七星岩 摩崖 石刻) are on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China.
Zhaoqing is known throughout China for its Guozhen Zong (肇庆 裹蒸粽). This is a special kind of zongzi, pyramid-shaped Klebreistaschen, wrapped in leaves and with mung beans, pork, salted egg, Chinese sausage and mushrooms are cooked for hours. This one -pound zongzi are eaten hot.
Another important cultural product of Zhaoqing is Duanyan (端砚) - Ink. This ink is produced in the district Duanzhou since the Tang Dynasty. It is usually purple, but rarer and more valuable ink stones can also be green or white. Duanyan ink is appreciated by calligraphers for the fineness and compactness of the stone next to it makes this ink prepare very pleasant and does not attack the brush.