Shaoguan City is located in the northern part of Guangdong Province, a municipality under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, a heavy industry city and the economic center of northern Guangdong. Located in the northern part of our province, the upper reaches of Beijiang River, where Mian and Wuer rivers meet. Northwest China, North China and Northeast China are bordered by Chenzhou City in Hunan Province and Ganzhou City in Jiangxi Province, with Heyuan City in the east, Qingyuan City in the west, Guangzhou and Huizhou in the south and the Pearl River Delta in the south. With a history of more than 265,438+000 years, it is the political, economic, cultural center and transportation hub of northern Guangdong. It now governs Zhenjiang District, Wujiang District, qujiang district, Renhua County, Shixing County, wengyuan county, Xinfeng County and Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County, and governs Lechang City and Nanxiong City. There are 9 sub-district offices, 94 townships, and 1.204 administrative villages in the city, with a total population of 2.867 million, with a total area of 1.8244 square kilometers, with about 1.553 people per square kilometer, and each administrative village has about 1.645 people,/. Among them, the urban area is 2856 square kilometers and the population is 9910.5 million. It has a long history and a rich collection of humanities. Shaoguan, known as Shaozhou in ancient times, is the hometown of Maba people and the birthplace of Shi Xia culture. Shaozhou has been built for more than 265,438+000 years. It is known as the "Lingnan Famous County" in history, and has nurtured a large number of historical celebrities, among whom Chen Ming-chen Hou Andu, Tang Ming-chen Zhang Jiuling, Song Ming-chen Yu Jing and Qing Dynasty writer Liao Yan are outstanding representatives. Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, has been teaching in Shaozhou for 37 years, so Nanhua Temple has become the "Southern Ancestral Court" of Zen Buddhism. Shaoguan has a long history, creating a good humanistic environment, simple folk customs and social stability. It is one of the areas with the best social security in the province, an excellent tourist city in China, an advanced national health city, a civilized city in Guangdong Province, a national health city, a national garden city and a national double-support model city.

Shaoguan Panorama (16 photo) enjoys an excellent geographical position and developed traffic. Shaoguan has been the most important land passage and gateway between North China and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the coastal areas of South China since ancient times, the commodity distribution center in the border areas of Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi, and the "golden passage" for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to radiate inland hinterland. Shaoguan is a first-class railway hub and highway transportation hub city planned and developed by the state. It is also a regional central city in the province with obvious comprehensive advantages in location and transportation. Wuhan-Guangzhou Passenger Dedicated Line, Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway public life circle have greatly enhanced the location and transportation advantages. Rich in resources and superior in ecology. Shaoguan is one of the regions with the richest tourism resources and the highest tourism culture grade in Guangdong Province, with 17 world-class and national-level scenic spots and more than 100 provincial-level and sub-provincial scenic spots. Including Danxia Mountain, Nanhua Temple, Zhujixiang, Maba Man Site, Meiguan Ancient Road, Guangdong Grand Canyon, Mantang Hakka bib, Bibei Yaozhai and many other tourist attractions, it has become a tourist and leisure resort that countless tourists at home and abroad yearn for. Shaoguan is rich in species resources, and forest resources rank first in Guangdong Province. It is a national key forest area and is known as the South China Biological Gene Bank. The per capita possession of land resources, forest resources and mineral resources ranks first in the province. Land area 1.8 million square kilometers, accounting for more than one tenth of the province. Shaoguan's forestland area, afforestation rate and standing stock all rank in the forefront of the province, and it is one of the areas with the best ecological environment quality in the province. Shaoguan is "the hometown of nonferrous metals in China", and there are 49 kinds of minerals with proven reserves, of which 35 are in the top three and 23 are in the first place. A solid foundation and reliable guarantee. Shaoguan is an old industrial base in Guangdong, with a good research and development foundation and manufacturing technology, and has formed pillar industries such as steel, nonferrous metals, electric power, tobacco, machinery manufacturing, medicine and electronic information. Shaoguan is also a distinctive agricultural city, which has formed seven leading industries, including high-quality rice, high-quality vegetables, high-quality livestock and poultry, high-quality fish, tobacco, special fruits and bamboo, and produces a large number of high-quality agricultural products and light industrial raw materials every year. Shaoguan is an important power production base in Guangdong Province. The installed power generation capacity of the city is 4 million kilowatts, and the power supply reliability is 100%. Shaoguan is an important technical education and training base in Guangdong Province. The scale of secondary vocational and technical education ranks first among prefecture-level cities in the province. Technical school students account for more than one-tenth of the province, and there are also a large number of skilled industrial workers. Since the reform and opening up, Shaoguan has steadily promoted various reforms relying on its unique natural conditions and solid economic foundation. The city's economy continues to develop rapidly, the economic structure is constantly optimized, and the quality of growth is constantly improved. In 2009, the city's GDP reached 5765438+73 million yuan (current price), up by 10 1% year-on-year. According to the resident population, the per capita GDP 193 12 yuan increased by 9.7%. In the whole year, tourists received12,260,600 person-times, and the total tourism revenue was 71380,000 yuan, up 17.4% and 35.7% respectively. All undertakings have flourished.