Guangdong, whose name evolved from Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is abbreviated as? Guangdong? Guangzhou, the provincial capital, is a coastal province at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. Guangdong is an important inheritance place of Lingnan culture, with its unique style in language, customs, history and culture. Since 1989, as the largest province in economy, Guangdong's GDP has been ranked first in more than 30 provinces and cities. At present, Guangdong Province has 2 1 prefecture-level cities (2 sub-provincial cities). Among them, as far as prefecture-level Maoming City is concerned, it is also a city named after people, just like Zhongshan City. Maoming has a population of more than 6 million, and the history of establishing a county 1400 years!

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First of all, Maoming is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province and a sub-central city of Guangdong Province. Geographically, Maoming is located in the southwest of Guangdong Province, in the middle reaches of Jianjiang River, bordering Yangjiang in the east, Zhanjiang in the west, Yunfu and Guangxi in the north. Maoming has a long history and outstanding people. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, today's Maoming City belongs to the land of Baiyue, and there is relatively little communication with the Central Plains. In 2 14 BC, Qin Shihuang sent troops to pacify Lingnan area and incorporated Maoming and other places into the territory of Qin Dynasty. During the Qin Dynasty, the area around Maoming mainly belonged to Xiang Jun and other counties. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, Sun Quan and Liu Bei competed for hegemony. Today, Maoming City belongs to Wu Dong established by Sun Quan.

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In 598 AD, after Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty established the Sui Dynasty, Maoming County was named after Taoist Pan Maoming. Therefore, the county-building history in this area has exceeded 1400 years. In 644 AD, Li Shimin named Nantang County Panzhou after Pan Maoming. In the ancient history of China, Pan Maoming was the only one who founded a country and established a county in the name of a Taoist priest. In 742 AD, when Li Longji was in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Gaozhou was called Gaoliang County and Panzhou was called Pan Nan County. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Maoming belonged to the Southern Han Dynasty. In 972 AD, Panzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty entered Gaozhou, belonging to Guangnan West Road. Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road were set up in the Song Dynasty, and Guangnan West Road includes modern Guangxi and Hainan.

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Finally, after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the provincial system was implemented. In A.D. 1278, the appeasement department of Gaozhou Road was established, which later belonged to Huguangxing Zhongshu Province. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, Gaozhou Prefecture was under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guangdong. At this historical stage of the Qing Dynasty, Gaozhou Prefecture was subordinate to Guangdong Province and governed five counties including Maoming. From 65438 to 0975, Maoming was upgraded to a prefecture-level city. Today, Maoming has jurisdiction over two municipal districts (Maonan District and Dianbai District) and three county-level cities (Gaozhou City, Xinyi City and Huazhou City). The total area of the city is 1 1458 square kilometers, accounting for about 6.4% of the province's land area, with a permanent population of about 6123,200.