Meizhou, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located in northeastern Guangdong Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan provinces, with a land area of 15,800 square kilometers. It belonged to Chaozhou in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Chengxiang was elevated to Jingzhou in the third year of Qianhe (945) of the Southern Han Dynasty. In the fourth year of Kaibao of Song Dynasty (971), Jingzhou was changed to Meizhou. In the 11th year of the Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty (1733), Chengxiang was elevated to the status of Jiaying Prefecture, with jurisdiction over Chengxiang, Pingyuan, Zhenping, and the five counties of Xingning and Changle in the former Huizhou Prefecture, which were called Jiaying Wuxi, and the prefecture-level city of Meizhou was established in 1988. As of 2022, Meizhou City has two municipal districts, five counties, and one county-level city under its jurisdiction.At the end of 2022, Meizhou had a household population of 5,393,500 and a resident population of 3,858,000.
Meizhou City is the main starting point of the Hakka people since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is the most representative Hakka settlement in the world, known as the "Hakka Capital of the World". Meizhou is a national key overseas Chinese hometown, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots important ancestral home, more than 7 million Chinese overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots originating in Meizhou, in 2013, set up by the UNESCO China's only migrant commemorative project in China (Meizhou) Migrant Memorial Plaza inaugurated. Meizhou is the hometown of Marshal Ye Jianying, a famous old revolutionary area, a cross-strait exchange base, and the only prefecture-level city in Guangdong whose whole area belongs to the former Central Soviet Area.
Meizhou City is a national historical and cultural city, national ecological civilization advance demonstration zone, national cultural and ecological reserve, East Asian cultural capital, China's excellent tourist city, national garden city, national health city, national forest city, is famous for the hometown of culture, overseas Chinese, soccer, generals, longevity, golden grapefruit, hot springs, Hakka cuisine, peace. Meizhou City is one of the regional central cities along the border of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan, the National Pilot Zone for Ecological Civilization Construction, the Pioneer Zone of Green Rise of Guangdong and the Zone of Cultural and Tourism Characteristics, the Coastal Economy Open Area, and one of the cities in the Economic Zone on the West Coast of the Taiwan Straits.In 2023, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Meizhou City was 140.843 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 6.5 percent year-on-year.
