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Brief introduction of Songkou town
Songkou Town belongs to Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, which is located in the northeast of the area and downstream of Meijiang River. It is a national key town. Since the merger of Songkou, Song Dong and Songnan, it has become the largest town in Meixian District, with a total population of more than 73,000 and an area of 328.6 square kilometers 1. Songkou Town is one of the four ancient towns in ancient Lingnan, and it is the core area of Meizhou cultural tourism characteristic area in Guangdong. Songkou Port used to be the second largest inland port in Guangdong Province. Meikan Railway, provincial highways S223 and S332, and the national defense highway from Baidu Town in Meixian District of Meizhou City to Sanheba in Tai Po run through this town, which is an important distribution center for business in surrounding towns. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times and one of the ancient battlefields in history. Songkou is an ancient town with a history of 1200 years and rich historical and cultural relics. Because it is located at the intersection of Fujian and Guangdong, and the old waterway is developed, Songkou Town has also become the first stop for Hakka people in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi to leave Nanyang in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of Han people moved into Songkou in the counties of Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, most of whom came from Shibi, Ninghua County, Fujian Province. The Han people who moved to Songkou lived and worked in peace and contentment in this hot land and developed rapidly. After the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Songkou was full of people and moved to other places to make a living, and some of them even went to Nanyang Islands to make a living. Today, there are about 70,000 people in Songkou Town and more than 80,000 overseas Chinese. It is one of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Songkou Hakka culture is rich in resources, which exudes the fragrance of Hakka culture everywhere. It is a developed place with a strong literary style and enjoys the reputation of hometown of culture, hometown of overseas Chinese and hometown of folk songs. Focusing on the goal of "building new areas, transforming old areas and shaping a new image of Songkou", Songkou Town has accelerated its development. The government of Songkou Town, Meixian District, Meizhou City, the Second People's Hospital of Meixian District, police station, court, local tax, land, traffic control and other departments built new buildings in Sikeng New Development Zone, intensified the transformation of the old district, and transformed Zhongshan Road, Laoaiqun Building and Fazheng Road. Urbanization has begun to take shape.