Geographical location:
Zhaoqing City is located in the middle and west of Guangdong Province, in the middle reaches of Xijiang River. Total land area 14900 square kilometers. Zhaoqing City is located between 22 47' ~ 24 24' north latitude and11'~112 52' east longitude.
Population:
By the end of 20 16, the permanent population of Zhaoqing was 4,084,600, of which the urban population was1882,200. The annual birth population was 510.9 million, and the birth rate was12.72 ‰. The death population was 23,300, with a mortality rate of 5.71‰; The population naturally increased by 28,600, with a natural growth rate of 7.0 1‰.
Celebrities in this area:
Throughout the ages, Zhaoqing gave birth to Chen Qin and Chen Yuan, famous scholars of ancient Chinese classics in the Han Dynasty, and Mo Xuanqing, the first talented person in Guangdong and Guangxi in the Tang Dynasty. Li Yong, a writer and calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, Rong Rui, a Japanese monk, Huineng, a Buddhist Zen master, Bao Zheng, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty (who was a magistrate in Zhaoqing for three years), and Shi Xiqian, a Zen master, became a monk under Huineng, the sixth ancestor. The five schools of Zen, namely Cao Dong, Yunmen and Fayan, all originated from Xi Qian. Cai Jiuyi brought Shaolin Wushu into Lingnan and created a new school of Nanquan. After the Republic of China, Liang Hancao, former member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee and former commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Army, emerged, with first-class generals Yu Hanmou, Ma, Lin Zhan, Tang Yunshan, Luo Maoxun and Lv Jianzhou. Kang Youwei's student, Chen Huanzhang, was a doctor of Jinshi in the late Qing Dynasty and a member of the Republic of China. He founded Confucianism and opened the first Confucius Institute in China. Liu Zerong, China's first international representative of * * * production, was re-elected as the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Third All-Russian Congress of Chinese Workers. He attended the first and second international production conferences and was the first Russian to meet Lenin. Wu Dayou, a famous physicist and former president of Academia Sinica in Taiwan Province, is called "the father of physics in China". Deng Zhaoxiang, former vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, who led the uprising of the cruiser Chongqing, is an outstanding general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, and has successively served as deputy commander of the Navy and vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.