Meizhou specialties include Tai Po bean jelly cake, dried plum, salted chicken, Jiaoling green tea, stuffed tofu, Meizhou Jinyou, Tai Po oolong tea, Pingyuan navel orange and so on. Meizhou, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, is located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, at the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, at a low latitude, near the South China Sea, influenced by the specific topography of the Pacific Ocean and mountains, with long summers, short winters, high annual temperature, abundant sunshine and concentrated rainfall, so it is rich in special foods.

Basic information

Meizhou is rich in water resources, with an average annual rainfall of 25.16 billion cubic meters, an average annual runoff of 12.87 billion cubic meters and a transit passenger flow of 12.7 billion cubic meters. The city's per capita water resources are 2,579 cubic meters.

Meizhou belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, which is the transition zone between the southern subtropical zone and the tropical climate zone in Central Asia. Take Tai Po Chayang as the dividing line, passing through Songkou, Jiaoling Jiaocheng, Pingyuan Shizheng and Xingning Gangbei in Meixian County, Pingyuan, Jiaoling and Meixian County as the central Asian tropical climate zone, and Wuhua, Xingning, Tai Po Heping, Jiaoling and Meixian County as the south subtropical zone.

Related knowledge

There are many kinds of animals and plants in Meizhou, among which there are more than 2 kinds of main mammals and birds with great economic value, and more than 1 kinds of amphibians and reptiles. There are more than 2 species of higher plants in China, and 184 species are collected and recorded through investigation, belonging to 598 genera and 182 families.