The specialties of Meizhou include Tai Po Liang Fan Cake, Plum Dried Vegetables, Salt-baked Chicken, Jiaoling Green Tea, Stuffed Bean Curd, Meizhou Golden Pomelo, Tai Po Oolong Tea, and Pingyuan Navel Orange. Meizhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located in the northeastern part of Guangdong Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Gan provinces, at a low latitude, near the South China Sea, and affected by the specific topography of the Pacific Ocean and mountains, with a long summer and a short winter, and with a high year-round temperature, plenty of sunshine, and abundant and concentrated rainfall, so that it produces specialty foods.

Basic Information

Meizhou is rich in water resources, with a total multi-year average rainfall of 25.16 billion cubic meters within its borders, a multi-year average runoff of 12.87 billion cubic meters, and a transit passenger water volume of 12.7 billion cubic meters. The city has 2579 cubic meters of local water resources per capita.

Meizhou is a subtropical monsoon climate zone, is the transition zone between the southern subtropical and central subtropical climate zones. Taking Chayang of Tai Po through Songkou of Meixian, Jiaocheng of Jiaoling, Shizheng of Pingyuan and Gangbei of Xingning as the demarcation line, Pingyuan, Jiaoling and the northern part of Meixian are the meso-subtropical climatic zones, and Wuhua, Xingning, Tai Po and Pingyuan, Jiaoling and the southern part of Meixian are the south-subtropical zones.

Related Knowledge

Meizhou has a great variety of plants and animals, and there are more than 200 kinds of major beasts and birds with greater economic value, and more than 100 kinds of amphibians and reptiles. There are more than 2,000 kinds of higher plants in the territory, and 1,084 kinds of them have been collected and recorded by inspection, belonging to 182 families and 598 genera.