Yangjiang City, also known as Alligator City, Yangjiang City. Yangjiang is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, one of the cities in the metropolitan area on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary, one of the cities in the Beibu Gulf City Cluster, an important strategic pivot city of the coastal economic belt between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and the Beibu Gulf City Cluster, and a famous coastal tourist city; a large city in Guangdong Province; located in the southwestern coast of Guangdong Province and the key point of Guangdong West; the city is surrounded by mountains on the east, west, and north and the South China Sea in the south, and has a subtropical monsoon climate. The city has a land area of 7,966.8 square kilometers and a sea area of 12,300 square kilometers; it has two municipal districts, one county and one county-level city under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, Yangjiang had a resident population of 2,622,200 people. In the thirty-third year of Qin Shihuang (214 BC), Liangyang area was the land of Nanhai County and Guilin County. In the 18th year of Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (598), Yangjiang County was newly established in the present Yangjiang land, which was the beginning of the name of Yangjiang County.In September 1983, Yangjiang County and Yangchun were the counties of Jiangmen City.On January 7, 1988, the former Yangjiang and Yangchun counties were separated from Jiangmen City, and the new city of Yangjiang was established. Historically, Yangjiang is an important transit point and supply station of the Maritime Silk Road, was the Han Dynasty, the two Jin Dynasty, the North and South Dynasties, the ancient Gao Liang County and the Sui Dynasty, Mrs. Xian Shogun's seat; Yangjiang's "Gao Liang Culture", "Hai Si Culture", "Mo Yang Culture" and other cultures are intertwined. Yangjiang's "Gao Liang Culture", "Sea Silk Culture", "Moyang Culture" and other cultures are intertwined and also influenced by "Guangfu Culture". Yangjiang is rich in marine resources, with China's top ten most beautiful islands, the first batch of national marine park Hailing Island, "National Geopark" Lingxiao Rock as the representative of the Yangchun landscape and the Song Dynasty ancient shipwrecks "Nanhai No. 1". It has been honored as "China's Outstanding Tourist City", "National Garden City", "National Sanitary City", "China's Happiest City - City of Industry and Habitat", "City with the Most Happiness", "City with the Most Happiness", "City with the Most Happiness", and "City with the Most Happiness". China's most happy city - livable city", "China's knife and scissors capital", "China's kite township", "China's hot spring township", "China's oyster capital", "China's oyster capital", "China's oyster capital", "China's oyster capital", "China's oyster capital", "China's oyster capital". Oyster Capital of China", "City of Chinese Poetry", "City of Chinese Couplet Culture" and other honors. In 2023, the Gross Regional Product of Yangjiang City was 158.179 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.8%.