A Vibrant Growing City--Huizhou
Huizhou lies in the southeast part of Guangzhou province and the northeast part of Pearl River Delta – it faces Daya Bay in south and neighbors Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. It is consisted of Huicheng District, Huiyang District, Huidong County, Boluo County and Longmen County, and Huizhou is the home of two state-level development zones, namely the Daya Bay Economic Development Zone and the Zhongkai Hi-tech Industrial Park. Huizhou administrates 51 townships and 16 street communities with permanent residents at 3.77 million. Huizhou has won numerous awards in China as a city, including China Top Tourism City, China Clean City, China Forestation City, Example City in Environment Protection, National City of Unity, China Top 10 Gardening City, Best Residence Award, and China Leading City in Civilization, just to name a few.
History and Nature,Economic and Social Development,Development Goals and Missions
Huizhou, a historical Guangdong city, is known as the Famous City of South. After Qin unified China, Emperor Qinshihuang set up the Boluo County in 214 BC., which is today’s Huizhou. In 591 AD. of the Sui Dynasty, the Xunzhou Aadministration was set in Huizhou, making Huizhou the political, financial, cultural and communication center in the region. Huizhou was the residence of many renowned Chinese officials and scholars, and in the over 10 centuries from Tang to the end of Qing Dynasty, Huizhou has accommodated
more than 480 important Chinese scholars who left Huizhou with 100 former residences and more than 2,100 historical relics. Su Shi, a great Chinese poet of the North Song Dynasty, had spent three years in Huizhou, and Huizhou was also a revolutionary base for Sun Yat-sen, China’s anti-Japanese forces
as well as communists with a long list of revolutionists, including Liao Zhongkai, Deng Yanda, Ye Ting and Zeng Sheng, leaving their marks in the land. Most of Huizhou residents are Hakka who speak Mandarin Chinese, Hakka, Cantonese, and Chaoshan Dialect. Huizhou people are, generally speaking, hospitable and warm-hearted.
Huizhou has rich natural resources in its 112 square kilometers territory, or about a quarter in the booming Pearl River Delta. The Dong River and Xizhi River going through Huizhou are two lifelines for Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan. Huizhou also administrates a sea area of over 4,500 square kilometers with 233.6 kilometers of coastline – a truly coastal city in Guangdong. The landscape in Huizhou mixes mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, springs, waterfalls, forests, valleys and islands to present a wonderful scenic view known as City of Mountain and Lake. Huizhou has six state-level parks and natural preservation zones as well as the West Lake, Elephant Head Mountain, Ancient Terrace, National Turtles Protection Zone, Luofu Mountain, Nankun Mountain, Tang Spring and Jiliao Bay.