Chaozhou City, abbreviated as "Chao", prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, Shantou-Chaojie metropolitan area, Chaozhou is one of the four cities in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, the People's Government of Guangdong Province approved the determination of the eastern gateway city of Guangdong Province, located in the eastern part of Guangdong Province, located in the middle and lower reaches of the Hanjiang River, the east of the border with the city of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, the west, the south, the north and the east of the Jieyang City, Shantou City, respectively, Meizhou City. The jurisdiction covers a total area of 3,613.9 square kilometers (including 533 square kilometers of sea area and 136 kilometers of coastline). As of October 2022, Chaozhou City has two districts and one county under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2022, Chaozhou had a resident population of 2,575,600, with an urban population of 1,669,200 and an urbanization rate of 64.81%. Chaozhou is assessed by UNESCO as the world's culinary capital, China International Tea Culture Research Association awarded the "home of the world's work tea culture", is the starting point of the Sui Dynasty, Taiwan is China's outstanding tourist cities, there are eight scenic spots and the new eight scenic spots of Chaozhou, is the National Historical and Cultural City, China's Porcelain Capital, China's Lingtou mono-colony of tea, National Key Pollution-Free Agricultural Products (POP), and National Key Pollution-Free Agricultural Products (POP), and National Key Pollution-Free Agricultural Products (POP). Chaozhou is a national historical and cultural city, Chinese porcelain capital, the hometown of Chinese Lingtou monoculture tea, the national key pollution-free agricultural products (tea) production demonstration base, China's famous food city, the national garden city, the hometown of Chaozhou dishes, the hometown of Chinese stainless steel products, the hometown of Chinese national folk art, the old revolutionary Soviet Union, the ancestors of the Chao people, the seashore Zulu, the birthplace of the Chaozhou culture, the hometown of the Overseas Chinese, the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots one of the ancestral homeland. 2023, was rated as a third-tier city. Chaozhou has more than 2,000 years of establishment history, the eastern coast of Guangdong Province, Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shantou three cities of this territory, the modern name of Chaoshan, Chaoshan three cities in history for a long time belonging to the same prefecture-level government, since the Qin and Han dynasty under the jurisdiction of the ancient Jieyang County, since the Sui dynasty under the jurisdiction of the Chaozhou Prefecture, Shantou City, Shantou City, the area was divided into three prefecture-level cities of Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang in 1991. Chaozhou culture is an important part of Lingnan culture and an important branch of Chinese culture. In 2023, the gross regional product of Chaozhou was 135.659 billion yuan, an increase of 3.0% over the previous year.