The pinyin of Maoming is [mào míng]

Maoming City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. It is located on the coast of the South China Sea, in the southwest of Guangdong Province, backed by the southwest of the motherland, with mountains on its back and the sea, high in the north and low in the south, sloping from northeast to southwest; as of the end of 2021, it has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts and 3 county-level cities. The total land area of ??the city's administrative region is 11,427.63 square kilometers; the permanent population is 6.2197 million.

In the 18th year of the founding of the Sui Dynasty (598), Maoming County was first named after Pan Maoming. In the 18th year of Emperor Zhenguan (644), Nandang Prefecture was named Panzhou after Pan Maoming. . On May 12, 1958, the Maoming Municipal Preparatory Office was established. On March 22, 1959, the State Council decided to establish Maoming City (county level). In 1975, it was upgraded to a prefecture-level city. Maoming is the important birthplace, prosperity and inheritance place of "Gaoliang Culture". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Gaozhou Prefecture (today's Maoming area) was an important political, economic and cultural center in western Guangdong.

Maoming is located at the intersection of three major national economic zones: the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Beibu Gulf City Group and the Hainan Free Trade Zone. Maoming is an important petrochemical base and energy base in the country, a comprehensive hub city in western Guangdong and an important coastal port; it has built a new urban development pattern with four clusters of east-west coastal development axis, north-south central development axis and dual centers. Maoming is an outstanding tourist city in China with all-terrain characteristics;

It has special tourism sectors such as the "Six Points and One Line" of coastal tourism, Madam Xian cultural tourism, beautiful rural style tourism, mountain sports and leisure tourism; Maoming is the birthplace of the important idea of ??"Three Represents", "China's Top 100 Cities in Comprehensive Strength", "National Garden City", "National Forest City", "China's Excellent Tourism City" and "China's Famous Mooncake City". In 2022, Maoming City's regional GDP will be 390.463 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.3%. In 2023, the GDP is expected to grow by 6%.