Huilai County, an ancient town in eastern Guangdong, was called "Kuiyang" in ancient times. It is a county under the jurisdiction of Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, and the location of Yuedong New Town and Jieyang Binhai New Area. It is the core component of "One Core, One Belt, One Area" in Guangdong Province to enjoy the economic management authority of prefecture-level cities and some provincial management authority.

The land area of the county is 1253 square kilometers, the sea area is 7689 square kilometers, and the coastline is 109.5 kilometers. It now administers 13 towns, 2 state-owned farms, 1 overseas Chinese administrative districts, 1 industrial zones directly under the municipal government and Huicheng, the resident population at the end of 20 17/256,200 people.

Huilai County is located between Shenzhen and Shantou Special Economic Zone, on the southeast coast of Guangdong Province, in the south of Chaoshan area, in the east of Chaonan area of Shantou City, in the west of Lufeng in Shanwei City, in the north of Puning and in the south of South China Sea. Huilai coastal area has a profound historical and cultural origin, and there are many ancient "Hayes" relics, which are important nodes of the Maritime Silk Road.

Huilai County was built in the third year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1524), and was named after the establishment of Chaoyang and Haifeng counties in Huilai. After the establishment of the county, it was under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou government in the late Qing Dynasty. After the founding of New China, it belongs to Shantou City. 199 1 year, Jieyang county was removed from the county to build a city (prefecture level), and Huilai county was separated from Shantou city and placed under Jieyang city.

20 18 12.5, China Petrochemical Guangdong Petrochemical Integration Project started construction in Huilai. March 20 19 was listed as the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization counties.