Chaozhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is a Chaoshan area, [1][2] one of the cities in eastern Guangdong [44], with Meizhou in the north, Nanhai in the south, Zhangzhou in the east and Jieyang and Shantou in the west.

It governs 2 districts 1 county (20 19), with a total land area of 3 146 square kilometers [48]. By the end of 20021,the permanent population of Chaozhou was 2,574,600 [4 1], and the regional GDP reached 65.438+024.485 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3% over the previous year.

Chaozhou is an excellent tourist city in China [3], a national historical and cultural city, the porcelain capital of China, the hometown of dancong tea in Lingtou, China, a national key pollution-free agricultural product (tea) production demonstration base [4], a famous food city in China [5] and a national garden city.

Hometown of Chaozhou cuisine, stainless steel products in China, ethnic folk art in China, Soviet area in the old revolutionary base area [6], ancestral home of She nationality [50], hometown of overseas Chinese, and one of ancestral homes of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Chaozhou is an ancient cultural city with a history of 1600 years. Chaoshan culture is an important part of Lingnan culture and an important branch of Chinese culture.