Jieyang City is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, at the center of the geographical axis of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Haixi Economic Zone. 199 1 Establish prefecture-level cities, administer Rongcheng, Jiedong District 2, Jiexi and Huilai counties, and entrust Puning City, and establish Jieyang Industrial Park, Airport Economic Zone, Dananhai Petrochemical Industrial Zone, Yuedong New Town and other economic functional zones.

Construct Jieyang central city, Puning main city and Jieyang Binhai New Area (Huilai) as the three major urban centers of eastern Guangdong urban agglomeration and the regional coordinated development layout of Jiexi ecological development demonstration zone.

The city has a land area of 5,240 square kilometers, a sea area of 9,300 square kilometers, a permanent population of 7.05 million, and nearly 6 million overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas folks. It is the largest and most populous prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong.

Jieyang special food

1, Puning soybean paste is a kind of paste product made of soybean as the main raw material through fermentation, squeezing and sun drying. Mainly processed from soybeans. Puning bean paste is delicious, nutritious and golden in color. The sauce is rich, salty and sweet, with endless aftertaste. Puning bean curd sauce is a specialty of Puning, Guangdong Province. It has never left the bean paste on the table of Cantonese people, and it is indispensable for hot pot barbecue or table wine.

2, kway teow is a kind of food that Puning people love to eat, and it can be eaten in a variety of ways, such as frying, frying, steaming and cooking. Puning is rich in rice, and rice flour is the main raw material for making kway teow. Puning people are used to grinding rice into pulp or powder and steaming it into kway teow. Puning kway teow is named because its making method is different from other areas in Chaoshan.

According to legend, in the late Ming Dynasty, a fishing boat named Jia Zheng set out from the seaside in Weilong Town (now Jieyang County) in the lower reaches of Rongjiang River. Zheng Zushang made a living by fishing. He was honest and clean, and won the support of local people. When they were fishing, they found a delicious little fish, and used it to make a roe ball.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jieyang City