The general situation of Chaozhou

Chaozhou City is the city of the national class history and cultural, locates the eastern of Guangdong Province, the northern of the plain of the Zhujiang Delta. It borders the Zhaoan country and the Pinghe country of the Fujian Province in the east, Edong country of Eyang City in our province in the west, Fengshun country and Dapu country of Meizhou City in the north, Shantou City and Chenghai City of Shantou City in the south. It also is close to the South Sea. The whole city area is 3613.9 square kilometers, including the 3080.9 square kilometers of land area and the 533 square kilometers of the waters area, the coast line is total 136 kilometers long. The city planning area is 174 square kilometers including 31.38 square kilometers of the setting up area. The total population is 2479200 including 344000 of the downtown population in the end of 2002. It governs Chaoan country, Raoping country, Xiangqiao town and Fengxi town now.
Chaozhou City belongs to the subtropics ocean monsoon climate, the average temperature of year is 21.4 degrees of Celsius, Chaozhou City belongs to the subtropics ocean monsoon climate, average 21.4 degrees of Celsius of air temperature of year, the weather is geniality, the volume of rain is abundant, it is often green all the year, it is fit for farming in the four seasons. The whole city geography is high south to low north, the mountainous country, mound has 65% of the whole city total area, mainly distributing in the north of the Raoping country and Chaoan country. The main mountain ranges contain the branch range of the Zhanghong Mountain of Wuyi Mountain at the boundary of Guangdong Province and Fujian Province and the Phoenix Mountain of the Lotus Mountain at the boundary of Chaozhou City and Meizhou City. The Fenghuangdaji which is the main peak of the Phoenix Mountain 1497.8 meters of elevation and is the tallest peak of whole city. Hanjiang River and Huanggang River which are the main rivers are full of the whole area from northwest to southeast. The natural resources are more abundant in Chaozhou City. the earth's surface water resources is abundant, the natural water ability theories reserves is a lot, it can provide as the water ability of pack the machine development 144,800 kilowatts, having 83.8% of the reserves. The types of the mineral are close to 20 kinds, the only first explores the clear high-quality amount of porcelain to keep the quantity to amount to 200,000,000 tons. The types of plant and animal are numerous. In addition, there still are the vast sea beach resources.
Chaozhou is an opening city outward for the tour, the tour resources are very abundant, it is outstanding with the humanities resources. The cultural object enriches to begin from Tang Dynasty but prosperous in Sung Dynasty, in endless history grow river, because of long-term of associate outward and the mixing of the Chinese and foreign culture, history of evolved the process to contain, accumulate to gather, develop the big region culture, it make mainland of living the culture and peripheral cultures at first, Central plains the mutual exchanges of culture, the ocean cultural permeate, becoming the special style which is the people of Chaozhou culture. The special features of the place are fresh and clear, the structure integrity, the type is well-found, and the cultural view is very good.