A brief introduction to the history and culture of Gaoyao, a thousand-year-old county (die casting industrial base in China, building hardware industrial base in China, leading city of vegetable industry in Guangdong Province, famous green city in Guangdong Province, hometown of tilapia in China, and hometown of Macrobrachium rosenbergii in China): Gaoyao is located in the middle of Guangdong Province, in the middle and lower reaches of Xijiang River, east longitude11'.

Sanshui City is adjacent to the east, Gaoming and Xinxing counties to the south, Yunfu and Deqing to the west, and Guangning and Sihui counties to the north. Gaoyao City is located in the middle of Guangdong, the middle and lower reaches of Xijiang River, which belongs to the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone and is the economic development center of Zhaoqing City. It borders the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta in the east and western Guangdong in the west, and is located at the junction of the economically developed Pearl River Delta and the resource-rich Xijiang Economic Corridor. The urban area faces Zhaoqing, an excellent tourist city in China, across the river, 90 kilometers from Guangzhou and 0/38 nautical miles from Hong Kong/KLOC. Xijiang Golden Waterway, Sanmao Railway, National Highway 324 and Zhao Guang expressway pass through the territory.

1986, with a total area of 2695.7 square kilometers. 1988, Yong 'an, Guangli and Shapu were designated as Dinghu District, and the total area of the county was reduced to 2 196 square kilometers. It is 67 kilometers wide from east to west and 74 kilometers long from north to south. Cultivated land area is 650,000 mu, accounting for about 30%, mountainous area1575,000 mu, accounting for about 60%, and water system area accounts for 10%.