Shanwei

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Shanwei 汕尾市 Swabue
Prefecture-level city
Shanwei
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Location of Shanwei in Guangdong
Shanwei Location in China
Coordinates (Shanwei municipal government): 22°47′14″N 115°22′32″E / 22.7872°N 115.3756°E / 22.7872; 115.3756Coordinates: 22°47′14″N 115°22′32″E / 22.7872°N 115.3756°E / 22.7872; 115.3756
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
County-level divisions	4
Township divisions	53
Municipal seat	Chengqu
Government
Area
• Total	4,861.79 km2 (1,877.15 sq mi)
Elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Total	2,935,469
• Density	600/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code(s)	660
ISO 3166 code	CN-GD-15
Licence plate prefixes	粤N
Major Nationalities	Han
Coastline(excluding islands)	302 km (188 mi)

Shanwei
"Shanwei", as written in Chinese
Chinese	汕尾
Hanyu Pinyin	Shànwěi
Cantonese Yale	Saanméih
Postal	Swabue
Literal meaning	Tail or end of the fishing sandbar
showTranscriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shànwěi Gwoyeu Romatzyh Shannwoei Wade–Giles Shan4-wei3 IPA [ʂân.wèi] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Saanméih Jyutping Saan3mei5 IPA [sāːn.me̬i] Southern Min Teochew Peng'im suan1 bhuê2

Shanwei (Chinese: 汕尾), or Swabue is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south. It lies approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Shenzhen and the locals speak the Haifeng dialect.

History[]

Shanwei City was renamed established in 1988. It was politically administered as part of Huizhoufu (惠州府) by the Ming and Qing empires, Shanwei it gained its prefectural and administrative independence from Huizhou during the Nationalist period.

The dominant ethnic population is Hoklo who came as a result of the large decrease in population caused by warfare in the early Qing dynasty in what is now Shanwei.

Administration[]

The prefecture-level city of Shanwei administers 4 county-level divisions, including 1 district, 1 county-level city and 2 counties.

Map
Cheng Haifeng County Luhe County Lufeng (city) PRC claims Pratas Island but has never controlled it.
Name	Simplified Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Population (2010 census)	Area (km2)	Density (/km2)
Chengqu District	城区	Chéng Qū	491,766	421	1,168
Haifeng County	海丰县	Hǎifēng Xiàn	804,107	1,750	459
Luhe County	陆河县	Lùhé Xiàn	314,153	986	318
Lufeng City	陆丰市	Lùfēng Shì	1,688,536	1,671	940
	深汕特别合作区	Shēnshàn Tèbié Hézuò Qū

These are further divided into 53 township-level divisions, including 40 towns, 10 townships and 3 subdistricts.

Geography and climate[]

Shanwei has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), with short, mild to warm winters, and long, hot, humid summers. Winter begins sunny and dry but becomes progressively wetter and cloudier. Spring is generally overcast, while summer brings the heaviest rains of the year though is much sunnier; there are 10.3 days with 50 mm (1.97 in) or more rainfall. Autumn is sunny and dry. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in January to 28.3 °C (82.9 °F) in July, and the annual mean is 22.60 °C (72.7 °F). The annual rainfall is around 1,891 mm (74 in), about two-thirds of which occurs from May to August. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 26% in March to 57% in October, the city receives 1,925 hours of bright sunshine annually.

Transportation[]

Shanwei Railway Station

• Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway.

Economy[]

Ties with Shenzhen[]

According to a December 2011 report, officials from Shenzhen considered Shanwei as one of the major destinations to which air-polluting industries should be relocated from Shenzhen. According to the mayor of Shenzhen, some 4000 Shenzhen factories should be moved to an industrial park in Shanwei.^[3]

Crops[]

Farming is a large part of Shanwei’s economy, thanks to it’s relatively warm climate. Many different types of crops are planted, rice, sesame, sweet potatoes, corn, bananas, just to name a few. 29 families and 42 species of plants are planted in total, on it’s 96.6 thousand hectares of farmland. Together with the timber and fish industry, the agriculture industry makes 25099 million Chinese yuan yearly.^[4]

Fisheries[]

Shenwei have a rich and diverse sea ecosystem, it’s a famous fishing ground in Guangdong. With a vast amount of fish, shrimp, crab, shellfish, and seaweed found, the fishing industry there has been thriving for centuries. Currently 25099 million Chinese yuan are earned from the fishing industry, including other harvest industries such as agriculture each year.^[5]

Tourism[]

With it’s long, interesting coastline and unique customs, Shanwei has an great potential for tourism. The few major tourist points in Shanwei are Lufeng Jieshi Xuanwu Mountain Tourist Area, Shanwei Fengshan Ancestral Temple Tourist Area, Red Bay Tourist Area, Haifeng Lotus Mountain Resort, Tongdingshan Tourist Area, Haifeng Red Palace Red Square Former Residence, Peng Pai Martyr's Former Residence, Shuide Mountain Tourist Resort, Luhe Luodong Shiwai Meiyuan Tourist Area, Lufeng Fushan Mazu Tourist Area, Lufeng Jinxiang Beach Seascape Area, Lufeng Qingyun Mountain, Luhe God Elephant Mountain Park, Luhe Red Spine Forest Ecological Park. It’s also one of the 13 communist revolution starting point in China, which can be use as an selling point.^[6]

Recent history[]

On the night of December 6, 2005, a protest had broke out for land confiscated by the government. To calm the protest, armed police were sent to the village of Dongzhou after the aggressive villagers attacked the unarmed police.^[7][8] It was reported by the Chinese government that, three people were found dead after the protest. However, the number was doubted by media to be between 20 to 40.^[9]

In 2011, a conflict between the residents of the Wukan village (in Shanwei's Lufeng county-level city, on the Jieshi Bay some 30 km (19 mi) east of Shanwei city center) attracted world media's attention.

Language[]

Generally used is Haifeng dialect which is similar to Chaozhou dialect and Hoklo, belonging to the Min Nan division of Min Chinese. Haifeng, Lufeng and the urban area have basically the same accent. Most parts of the rural Luhe county formerly part of Lufeng use the peasant Hakka Chinese language belonging to the Xinhui subdialect of the Yuetai dialect.

As Shanwei is near the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong, together with the impact of television programs from Hong Kong and population movements within Guangdong province, many local residents, especially the younger generation, have communication skills in Cantonese.

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shanwei.

• Official website (in Simplified Chinese)