Meizhou is located at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces in the northeast of Guangdong Province, and 85% of the territory is hilly below 500 meters above sea level.
Division: Meizhou City, Jiaoling County, Meixian County, xingning city, Fengshun County, Wuhua County, Pingyuan County and Meijiang District are located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, with a total area of 1.58 million square kilometers.
It has jurisdiction over Meijiang District, xingning city, Meixian County, Pingyuan County, Jiaoling County, dapu county County, Fengshun County and Wuhua County, with a population of more than 5 million.
In the third year of Ganhe in the Southern Han Dynasty (AD 945), Jingzhou was changed to Meizhou in the fourth year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 97 1 year). After 1949, Xingmei area and Meixian area were set up, and 1988 Meixian area was changed to Meizhou. It has a history of 1000 years.
Meizhou, with many celebrities, is the hometown of Marshal * *. Lingnan wizards in the Ganjia period, diplomat and educator Huang Zunxian in the late Qing Dynasty, anti-Japanese star, outstanding poet and educator Qiu, a famous westernization athlete, strategist, one of the four major bibliophiles in China, a famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader and a modern Asian ball king, were all from Meizhou.
Since 2003, Meizhou has fully implemented the development strategy of "opening Meizhou, industrial Meizhou, ecological Meizhou and cultural Meizhou", which has effectively promoted the development of mountain economy.
In 2004, the city's GDP was 2.710.64 billion yuan, an increase of10.2% over the previous year, the highest in ten years. In 2004, the city received 26,865,438+300,000 domestic and foreign tourists, and the total tourism revenue was 2.836 billion yuan, up by 34.6% and 43.4% respectively. Tourism has become the economic development of our city.
Meizhou has a distinctive tourism image and outstanding characteristics.
Relying on the advantages of Hakka cultural resources and ecological hot spring resources, Meizhou clearly takes "shaping the Hakka capital of the world, creating fine Hakka cultural products, hot spring leisure specialties, landscape leisure and holiday famous products" as its tourism development orientation, and has formed Hakka cultural landscape leisure and holiday tourism products represented by Yannan Feichatian Resort and Yanming Lake Tourism Resort, and hot spring leisure and holiday tourism products represented by Wuhua Tanghu Hot Spring Mud Bath Villa and Fengshun Qianjiang Hot Spring Hotel.
At present, there are 2 national 4A-level tourist attractions, 2 provincial-level tourist resorts, 2 provincial-level scenic spots, 4 provincial-level nature reserves, 24 national cultural relics protection units 1, and 2 provincial-level cultural relics protection units, which are being declared as 3A-level scenic spots.
Among them, Yannanfei Tea Field Resort, Wuhua Tanghu Hot Mine Mud Villa, Wuzhishi, Changtan and Pankeng are listed as 65,438 scenic spots for holiday and leisure in Guangdong Province, while Ye Shuai's former residence, Dragon Whale River rafting and Shen Guang are listed as sightseeing 100 scenic spots.
Meizhou has a long history and belonged to Nanhai County in Qin and Han Dynasties.
During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was changed to Meizhou. It was called Jiaying House in Qing Dynasty. In the early years of the Republic of China, the abandoned state was renamed Meixian.
Meizhou City was founded on 1988.
Meizhou has beautiful scenery, many places of interest and unique folk customs.
When traveling to Meizhou, besides visiting the former residences of Hakka celebrities such as * * *, Huang Zunxian and Qiu, visiting the ancient Hakka enclosed houses and tasting authentic Hakka food, we might as well learn the Hakka dialect called "the living fossil of ancient Chinese" and feel the traditional culture of respecting teachers and attaching importance to teaching. In this way, the trip to Meizhou is more meaningful.