Zhaoqing City governs Duanzhou District, Dinghu District 2 and Guangning, Huaiji, Fengkai and Deqing counties, and manages Gaoyao City and Sihui City.
The Xijiang Prefecture was established in November 1949, governing 11 counties including Gaoyao, Sihui, Guangning, Fengchuan, Kaijian, Deqing, Yunan, Luoding, Yunfu, Xinxing, Gaoming, etc. Zhaoqing City (county level), the Xijiang District Commissioner's Office is located in Zhaoqing City (at that time, the "special district" was not a prefecture-level municipal government, but an agency dispatched by the provincial government, and the full name was the Xijiang Administrative Supervisory Commissioner's Office).
In March 1950, it was renamed the Office of the Administrative Inspectorate of Xijiang District, Guangdong Province; in September, it was renamed the Office of the Xijiang District Commissioner of the People's Government of Guangdong Province. In January 1950, Gaoming County was placed under the Pearl River Prefecture; in March, Zhaoqing City was transformed into a town and merged into Gaoyao County. In May 1951, Huaiji County was transferred from Pingle Prefecture of Guangxi to Xijiang Prefecture. In December 1952, the Xijiang Prefecture was abolished and the Central Guangdong Administrative Region (regional level) was established, located in Jiangmen City (based in Foshan City after September 1955), and the counties under it remained unchanged.
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Zhaoqing area is the name of an old prefecture-level administrative region that once existed in Guangdong Province, China. It was renamed from Zhaoqing Prefecture and existed from October 1970 to January 1988. , has now been revoked, and its jurisdiction is today’s prefecture-level Zhaoqing City and Yunfu City.
Zhaoqing is one of the first batch of outstanding tourist cities in China, with rich tourism resources, numerous cultural relics and unique natural landscapes. Star Lake, which has the beauty of Yangshuo and West Lake, is a national AAA-scenic spot and one of the top ten civilized scenic spots demonstration sites in the country; Dinghu Mountain has a rare primitive sub-forest on the Tropic of Cancer, a first-class ecological environment, and the highest negative ion content in the country , known as the "natural oxygen bar", the "gene repository" of South China's biological species and the "living natural museum".
Connected by the 500-kilometer ring road, Deqing Yuecheng Longmu Temple, Fengkai Longshan, Huaiji Yanyan, Guangning Bamboo Sea, Sihui Zhenshan, Gaoyao Ecological Park and With golf courses as the main supporting outlets, the modern large-scale tourism network "Thousand Miles Tourism Corridor" integrating vacation, recuperation, conferences, shopping, culture, entertainment, business and other functions has become quite large.
Zhaoqing is a national historical and cultural city, known as Duanzhou in ancient times. It has a history of more than 2,100 years and is the birthplace of Lingnan culture. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was the political, economic, cultural, and military center of the Xijiang River Basin, with a history of more than 180 years. The seat of the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi; Mo Xuanqing, the number one scholar in Lingnan, Li Yong, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, Rongrui, a Japanese monk who studied in the Tang Dynasty, Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, Bao Zheng, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, Matteo Ricci, the first person to bridge Chinese and Western cultures, Revolutionary pioneer Sun Yat-sen and many other historical celebrities have left their footprints in Zhaoqing.
There are more than 360 cultural relics attractions with historical scientific research value in the city. Currently, Zhaoqing is actively creating and constructing culture focusing on Song culture, Bao Gong culture, Guangxin culture, ecological culture, revolutionary culture, folk culture, and popular science culture.
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