鹤山市
Hèshān Shì

Administration Type	County-level city County-level city A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....
City Seat	Shaping Shaping Shaping can refer to:* In electricity generation, maintaining reliable delivery, for example by use of pumped storage hydroelectricity* Shaping , the reinforcement of successive approximations to train a type of behavior...  Town
Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...	1108.3 km²
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...	360,353 (2005)
GDP - Total - Per Capita	¥ Renminbi The Renminbi is the official currency of the People's Republic of China . Renminbi is legal tender in mainland China, but not in Hong Kong or Macau. It is issued by the People's Bank of China, the monetary authority of the PRC... 8.772 billion (2005) ¥19321 (2005)
Major Nationalities	Han Han Chinese Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...
County-level divisions
Township-level divisions	12
CPC Communist Party of China The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...  Committee Secretary	Xiang Bin (向斌)
Mayor Mayor In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....	Huang Guochang (黄国常)
Area code China telephone numbering plan Country Code: +86International Call Prefix: 00Trunk Prefix: 0The Chinese Telephone Code Plan is the way to group telephone numbers of Mainland China...	0750
Postal Code	529711
License Plate Licence plates of the People's Republic of China The People's Republic of China issues vehicles licence plates at its Vehicle Management Offices, under the administration of the Ministry of Public Security.Hong Kong and Macau have their own administrations on licence plates...  Prefix	粤J

Heshan also known as Hok San in Cantonese is a county-level city

County-level city

A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....

 of Siyi prefecture administered from Jiangmen

Jiangmen

Jiangmen , is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province in southern China with a population of about 4.48 million in 2010. The 3 urban districts are now part of Guangzhou - Shenzhen built up area.-Names:...

 city in the southern part of Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

 province of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

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Heshan (鹤山) was decreed as a prefecture in the 10th year (1732) of the reign of Yong Zheng, the 3rd emperor of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty. By 1993, its administrative status was raised to that of a municipality. Its name which means 'Mount Crane' literally, was given to it because of a mountain within its boundary that closely resembles the shape of that bird. Situated about 60km south west of the provincial capital of Guangdong province, Guangzhou, it occupies a strategic location on the Pearl River Delta, commanding the northern gateway to Jiangmen's 5 prefectures. Along the opposite bank of the same river, lies the 2 municipalities of Nanhai and Shunde. It would take more than an hour approximately to get to Hong Kong or Macau from Heshan by road. 3000 ton vessels could dock at Heshan's harbour. Ships ply from here to Hong Kong directly. The total land area of Heshan is 1108.3 sq km and its local population is 360000. If the non local are included, it would be around 550000 persons residing within its border. People of Heshan origin or descent living in other parts of the world would also amount to around 360000. Heshan Municipality administers 11 towns. They are Yayao (雅瑶), Gulao （古劳）, Longkou （龙口）, Taoyuan （桃源）, Hecheng （鹤城）, Gonghe （共和）, Zhishan （址山）, Yunxiang （运乡）, Shuanghe （双河）, Zaiwu （宅悟） and Shaping （沙坪）.

The 3rd conference of the 13th People's Congress of Heshan Municipality was held at Heshan Theatre. The mayor, Mr Huang Guohua, on behalf of the municipal government presented to the People's Congress the work progress report of the Heshan municipal government. He told the People's Congress that in the year 2007, the municipality had successfully achieved the objectives and tasks delegated to it by the 2nd conference of the 13th People's Congress. It had put into effect the scientific approach to development and had achieved, as dictated as the overall aim, a good start. Heshan had been changed into a modern, scenic and garden like municipality.

In that same report too, 2008 is pointed out as an important year for the municipality to put into effect the directive of the 17th Party Congress and that is to push forward with scientific approach to development and to build a harmonious society. In this year to attain the pre-set objective of both social and economic progress for Heshan, effort needed to be focus on 6 areas of work. They are:

a. Based on the latest wave of thoughts liberlisation economic development that are faster and more rewarding should be pushed ahead;

b. With good infrastructure as the basis the pace to build a modern, scenic and garden like municipality would be speeded up;

c. With the objective of increasing the income of the farming community, works to build a new socialism farming community should be widen and amplified;

d. Pivoting on the objective of improving citizens’ livelihood, more effort should be put in to press forward with the building of
a harmonious society;

e. Using the establishment of spiritual civilization as the anchor point build co-ordination and complementing development paths between different aspect of works and developments;

f. With the objective of establishing a clean and pragmatic government, efficiency of the municipal administration should be further improved.
Heshan is currently located centrally to one of China's largest furniture producing areas, within approximately 10% of the worlds furniture being produced on its outskirts.

Heshan is the birthplace of NBA

National Basketball Association

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 player Yi Jianlian

Yi Jianlian

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Heshan is also the birthplace of the Southern lion dance style known as the Hok San-style lion dance.

Translation of text extracted from 鹤邑海外联谊会出版联谊之声第15期