Jieyang City is in Guangdong Province.

Jieyang City is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, at the center of the geographical axis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Haixi Economic Zone.

Established as a prefecture-level city in 1991, it has jurisdiction over Rongcheng and Jiedong districts, Jiexi and Huilai counties, and manages Puning City. It also has Jieyang Industrial Park, Airport Economic Zone, Dananhai Petrochemical Industrial Zone, and East Guangdong New Town.

Economic functional zone.

Construct a coordinated regional development layout of "three centers and one demonstration zone" in the central city of Jieyang, the main urban area of ??Puning, and Jieyang Binhai New Area (Huilai), the three city centers of the eastern Guangdong urban agglomeration, and the Jiexi ecological development demonstration zone.

The city has a land area of ??5,240 square kilometers and a sea area of ??9,300 square kilometers. It currently has a permanent population of 7.05 million people and nearly 6 million overseas Chinese, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and people living abroad. It is the largest and most populous prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong.

Jieyang City Specialty Food 1. Puning bean paste is a kind of paste product made from soybeans as the main raw material through fermentation, pressing, sun-drying and other processes.

Mainly made from soybeans.

Puning bean paste is delicious, rich in nutrients, golden in color, rich in flavor, salty and sweet, and has an endless aftertaste.

Puning tofu sauce is a specialty of Puning, Guangdong. It is almost never left on the Cantonese dining table without bean paste, whether it is hot pot, barbecue or as an accompaniment to food and wine.

2. Kueh Teow is a favorite food of Puning people. It can be eaten in various ways. It can be fried, fried, steamed or boiled.

Puning is rich in rice, and rice flour is the main raw material for making rice noodles.

Puning people are used to grinding rice into pulp or making it into powder and steaming it into rice cakes. Puning rice cakes are named because they are made in different ways from other areas in Chaoshan.

3. According to legend, in the late Ming Dynasty, in Longwei Town (today's Jieyang County) on the lower reaches of the Rongjiang River, there was a small fishing boat named Zheng's family that moved from the sea.

The ancestors of the Zheng family have made a living by fishing for generations. They are honest and loyal people and are deeply supported by the local people. They found a delicious small fish while fishing and used this small fish to make dragon tail fish balls.