Yangdong District, a district of Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, is located in southwestern Guangdong Province along the coast of the sea, on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta, east of Taishan and Enping cities, west of Yangjiang Jiangcheng District, north of Yangchun City, and south of the South China Sea, with an area of 1,703.03 square kilometers square kilometers. As of 2019, Yangdong District has a total of 11 towns under its jurisdiction According to the seventh census, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, Yangdong District had a resident population of 478,299 people. Yangdong District is rich and colorful in traditional dragon boat culture, kite culture, boat-dwelling culture, knife and scissors culture, and food culture.On January 7, 1988, Yangjiang withdrew its county and established a city (prefecture level) and set up Yangdong District in Yangjiang City, which is called Yangdong because its territory is in the eastern part of Yangjiang. Yangdong District is the manufacturing center of the hardware knife and scissors industry cluster, the formation of hardware manufacturing, food, clothing, wood processing and other industries as the leading industrial system, has the reputation of "China's scissors". In 2021, the region's gross domestic product (GDP) 34.360 billion yuan, an increase of 7.9%. Among them, the primary industry added value of 5.766 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4%; the secondary industry added value of 17.925 billion yuan, an increase of 10.7%; the tertiary industry added value of 10.669 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6%. Per capita GDP was 71,561 yuan, up 7.2% year-on-year.