The largest city in Guangdong.

Qingyuan city.

Qingyuan City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, located in the north-central part of Guangdong Province, the middle and lower reaches of Beijiang River, the south side of Nanling Mountains and the Pearl River Delta. By the end of 20021,the total land area of Qingyuan was 1.9 million square kilometers, accounting for 1.6% of the total land area of the whole province. Jurisdiction over 2 counties, 2 autonomous counties, 2 municipal districts and 2 county-level cities; At the end of 2022, the registered population of Qingyuan City was 4.535 million. Qingyuan City was the land of Baiyue (Guangdong) during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Guiyang, Suzhong and other five counties in Han Dynasty; Tian Liang was in prison for six years (507), and Qingyuan County was established, hence the name Qingyuan. Qingyuan is a city in Guangzhou metropolitan area. As early as the Neolithic Age, our ancestors thrived on this land and created a splendid prehistoric civilization. Qingyuan is also one of the main settlements of ethnic minorities in Guangdong Province. Qingyuan is an important part of the regional plate of Guangfu culture. Guangfu culture is the mainstream of Qingyuan culture, and Qingyuan and Guangfu cultural circle have deep historical, geographical and ethnic relations. Qing is far away from Guangzhou, and Guangzhou helps Qingyuan. Cooperative construction of Guangzhou (Qingyuan) Industrial Park is an important embodiment of "Guangzhou-Qingdao integration". In 2023, Qingyuan was rated as a third-tier city. He Dan, a scattered doctor in the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Zhan in the Tang Dynasty and Meng, a poet in the Southern Tang Dynasty, appeared in Qingyuan successively. There are many high-quality cliff stone carvings in Qingyuan, from the early Tang Dynasty to the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, with a wide range of contents and colorful calligraphy, among which there are many inscriptions by famous people such as Han Yu, Zhou Dunyi, Su Shi and Big Ben.