80% of people in China wear underwear made in Chaoshan. Chaoshan area is located in the southeast coast of Guangdong Province, belonging to Chaoshan cultural area and Chaozhou dialect area. It is the ancestral home and concentrated place of Chaoshan people, the birthplace and prosperity of Chaoshan culture, and the popular and popular area of Chaozhou dialect, including Shantou (special economic zone), Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei.

Chaoshan is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and one of the important ancestral homes of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots. More than 30 million overseas Chaoshan people are haunted by dreams, and it is also the hometown of Thaksin Shinawatra, the head of the five emperors in Thailand. Overseas Chinese in Chaoshan are allowed to be included in the Memory of the World List.