Hello, everyone, welcome to the southernmost city of Chinese mainland toZhanjiang. Once a great man Deng Xiaoping's sentence "Qingdao in the north,Zhanjiang in the South" incisively outlines a charming Zhanjiang which can becompared with Qingdao. Zhanjiang, like Qingdao, is also one of the first batchof open tourist cities in China. At the same time, Zhanjiang has a uniquegeographical location, rich natural resources and beautiful coastal scenery,just like a dazzling pearl, inlaid in the South China Sea.
Zhanjiang has a total land area of 12470.5 square kilometers, which can beillustrated by the following districts and cities.. Four are four urban areas:Chikan District, Xiashan District, Potou district and Mazhang district; threeare three county-level cities: Leizhou City, Wuchuan City and Lianjiang City;two are two counties: Suixi County and Xuwen County; one is a national economicand Technological Development Zone. Zhanjiang is located in the southernmostChinese mainland. The southwest of Guangdong province is located in the LeizhouPeninsula, east of the South China Sea, the west coast of the Beibu Gulf, thesouth facing the sea from Hainan, the North southwest, and the Guangdong,Guangxi and Qiong provinces. It is the necessary place for Hainan Island to goto the mainland, the main outlet for the southwest China, and the NorthwestHepu, Bobai and Lu Chuan county. Adjacent to the northeast, it borders MaonanDistrict, Huazhou City and Dianbai County of Maoming City. It is also theshortest foreign trade port from the mainland of China to Southeast Asia,Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Middle East. It plays an important role in theBeibu Gulf economic circle and Asia Pacific Economic Circle.
Zhanjiang is located in the low latitude zone south of the Tropic ofcancer. It has a North tropical marine monsoon climate. The annual averagetemperature is about 22.8 degrees, and the hottest month is July and August. Theaverage temperature is 30 degrees. The coldest months are January and February,and the average temperature is about 15 degrees. There is no severe cold inwinter and no severe heat in summer. The warm climate makes Zhanjiang green allthe year round, forming a unique North tropical plant ecological landscape.
The design idea of the sculpture is to symbolize Zhanjiang people's"sailing to the world" with sails, which is known as Zhanjiang City logo "windis flying". Unexpectedly, this group of "three sails" sculptures are more likethree machetes standing on the ground than sails. What's more bizarre is thatthe sculpture faces the office buildings of the customs, border control and taxauthorities. In the anti smuggling activities of the state a few years ago, thesculpture of this city was like "three knives" that "chopped" the three mainleaders of Zhanjiang customs, frontier defense and tax respectively. Therefore,the local people say that the presence of these three knives is also a wake-upcall for these government units. If they do not abide by the law, they will cutthem off.
Having said so much, how did the name of Zhanjiang come from? Why wasZhanjiang called "Guangzhou Bay" before?
Zhanjiang belongs to Baiyue of Chu state in the pre Qin period. In the QinDynasty, it belonged to Xiang County, and in the Han Dynasty, it belonged toHezhou. In the song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it belonged to Jun, Lu andFu. In modern history, Zhanjiang was a French colony. After the second OpiumWar, that is, in 1898, France coerced the Qing government to lease Guangzhou Bayin the three counties of South Wuchuan for 99 years. Then, the French colonistswantonly expanded the scope of leased land by force and occupied a large area ofland along the harbor (now Zhanjiang Harbor Area), which was collectivelyreferred to as Guangzhou Bay (Zhanjiang area was formerly known as "GuangzhouBay"). This name was formed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some scholarsbelieve that it was named because there are "Guangzhou Bay" villages in thethree southern islands. Others believe that it was named because gaolei mansionis under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou and the map is in the middle of"Guangzhou". In 1897, the French warship Bayard broke into the "Guangzhou Bay"to avoid typhoon, and was moved by this deep-water harbor. The government leasedthe "Guangzhou Bay",
It opened the prelude of the colonial history of Guangzhou Bay. In April1898, the French invaders occupied haitouxun (jinxiashan) and set up theirterritory in the mainland, which was resisted by the local people for more thana year. On November 16, 1899, China and France signed the Treaty of Canton Bayconcession between China and France, which collectively referred to theterritory in the concession as "Canton bay" and leased it to France in 1999. Tocommemorate the Bayard, the French called the central city of Guangzhou Bay"fort Bayard". From the outbreak of the Pacific War to 1943, Guangzhou Bay wasin a stable state and enjoyed a short-term prosperity. On February 21, 1943,Japan and France signed the agreement on joint defense of Guangzhou Bay, whichwas occupied by Japan. After the surrender of Japan, on August 18, 1945, Wuguoframe, chief executive of the Ministry of foreign affairs of the nationalgovernment of China, and Dai Litang, acting office of the French Embassy inChina, signed the "treaty between the national government of the Republic ofChina and the provisional government of France on the handover of the leasedland in Guangzhou Bay" in Chongqing on behalf of the Chinese and Frenchgovernments, and the leased land in Guangzhou Bay was returned to China. OnAugust 22, the Guangdong provincial government, by order of the nationalgovernment, established the leased land in Guangzhou Bay as a provincial city,named Zhanjiang City. Zhanjiang City was liberated on December 19, 1949. )Zhanjiang is called "Zhanjiang City". In fact, there is another saying. BecauseZhanjiang belonged to Shenchuan County in ancient times, and Zhanjiang wassurrounded by the sea on three sides, it was changed into Zhan, which impliedthe sky and the blue sea water of Zhanjiang. There are three main roads inZhanjiang, namely Renmin Avenue, Shenchuan Avenue and Haibin Avenue. These threemain roads are just three parallel lines, On the map, it's just like the Chinesecharacter Chuan. Because Chuan means water and river, it's changed to "River".The name of Zhanjiang comes from this..
Zhanjiang is famous for its outstanding people, rich specialties andbeautiful environment. It is the southernmost city in mainland China; GuangdongProvince was first listed as one of the 14 coastal port cities open to theoutside world by the state; the coastline is 1556 km long, accounting for about2 / 5 of the total coastline and 1 / 10 of the whole country, which is thelargest in the whole Province; Zhanjiang port is one of the deep-water ports inChina; Xuwen Coral Reef group, a national nature reserve with an area of 143.7square kilometers, is the coral reef group with the largest area and variety inChina. It has 1.49 million mu of marine beach, accounting for 48% of theprovince, the largest in the province. Donghai Island, with an area of 286square kilometers, is the largest island in the province and the fifth largestisland in the country; Donghai island beach is 28 kilometers long, of which20663 meters is the continuous part, which is certified as "the longest beach inChina" by Shanghai Guinness; the northeast of Leizhou Peninsula in Zhanjiang hasthe largest area in China and the largest low-temperature geothermal field withthermal fluid reserves; Zhanjiang is an important base for offshore oil and gasdevelopment services in South China, and the South China Sea near Zhanjiang isone of the four major offshore oil and gas accumulation centers in the world;Zhanjiang's salt production ranks first in the province, with a productioncapacity of 150000 tons, accounting for half of the province's sea saltproduction; Zhanjiang is one of the four major sugar industry bases in China,and the largest municipal sugar industry base in China; Zhanjiang has more than180000 Mu pineapple base and more than 140000 Mu mango base, ranking first inthe province.
Zhanjiang is the largest marine pearl breeding base in China. BecauseZhanjiang faces the sea three times, most of the harbors have moderate salinity,small waves and rich bait organisms, which are suitable for pearl breeding. Themain pearl culture areas are Leizhou, Xuwen and Suixi in Leizhou Peninsula.Among the sea pearls, "Nanzhu" has the best quality and the highest grade.Leizhou Peninsula is the main producing area of South Pearl; pearl peoplegathered pearls as early as Qin Dynasty, and pearls were abundant in later HanDynasty. Emperors of all dynasties sent internal supervisors to Zhuchi tocollect pearls and pay tribute to the imperial court.
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