Although some friends who don't know Shantou don't like Shantou, I love my hometown very much as a Shantou person. Shantou is a beautiful coastal city. Besides the beautiful scenery, it is also a food city! Gongfu tea is a major feature of Shantou. Various snacks and delicacies are waiting for the arrival of tourists. It not only reflects the rapid development of the new era, but also contains some ancient historical sites.

At present, there are more than 1, industrial enterprises above designated size in Shantou, accounting for more than half of the city's total industrial output value, which has changed the previous situation of "only stars, no moon". Mechanical and electrical products, textiles and clothing, footwear and toys have grown strongly and gradually become the mainstay of foreign trade exports. The prosperity index of industrial enterprises has steadily increased. Information transmission, computer services and software industries are developing rapidly and have strong stamina.

Let me introduce you to some tourist attractions in Shantou.

1. Baicao Garden (especially recommended).

2. Queshi Scenic Area: Located in the south of Shantou Bay, Queshi Scenic Area is composed of coastal platforms and 43 peaks, with comprehensive features such as sea, mountains, rocks, caves and human landscapes, and is listed as a provincial-level scenic area. Qianshi Scenic Spot is a coastal natural scenic spot with beautiful scenery, surrounded by hills and mountains, strange rocks, quaint houses and colonial buildings, and subtropical plants surrounded by bays. The natural and human landscape, which is characterized by "sea", "mountain", "stone" and "cave", has the characteristics of "male", "strange", "beautiful" and "secluded"

3. CITIC Golf Seaside Resort: CITIC Resort is located in Longhu Beach, Nanbin, Shantou City, bordering on the South Pacific Ocean, with picturesque scenery, pleasant climate and environment. There are beach and water sports such as volleyball, football, diving and speedboat in the resort, and there is also an elegant and fashionable sports ground-CITIC Golf Course, which covers an area of 1,868 mu. It is the first 18-hole course in China that completely uses American-made eagle grass as guoling grass, and you can enjoy your heroic feelings. Beautiful golden beaches, several kilometers of coastline, romantic and elegant garden villas with European architectural style, and perfect leisure and entertainment facilities are all available, forming an excellent resort for sightseeing, leisure and business negotiation.

4. Lotus Peak Scenic Spot in Haimen, Chaoyang: Lotus Peak Scenic Spot is located in Haimen seaside, about 1 kilometers away from the county seat of Chaoyang City. There are rocks that crack like lotus flowers, hence the name, and it is a tourist attraction with natural and human landscapes. There are more than 1 cliff carvings around Lotus Peak, including more than 5 ancient cliff carvings and nearly 6 modern and modern ones. Most of the content is to remember and praise the national integrity of Cheng Xiang Wen Tianxiang in the late Song Dynasty and Zhang Luan, a hermit in the Yuan Dynasty. The forms are poems, words, essays and single words, which have high historical value and calligraphy artistic value. According to legend, the earliest inscription is the sword inscription of Wen Tianxiang, the right prime minister at the end of the Song Dynasty, "End South".

5. Chenghai Laiwu Tourist Resort: Located on the south seashore of Chenghai, it is the ferry port leading to Nan 'ao Island. There is a seaside swimming pool here, and there are hills on both sides of the bathing beach to form a natural breakwater, so the waves here are relatively gentle and suitable for swimming.

Two conical hills and surrounding islands on the seashore are regarded as sea gods by local people. Legend has it that once upon a time, the disciples of Fairy Phoenix saw that fish essence often came out here to harm the people, so they went down to earth to kill the people privately. When the Jade Emperor learned about it, he put her to death, and her body turned into Laiwu Islands, with Dongyu as her head, a reddish-brown reef nearby made of her blood, and two mountains as her breasts. Therefore, the local people call this scenic spot "Beauty to Heaven". There is a goddess temple nearby to pay homage to it. There is also a fort built in the 56th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, which guards Shantou Bay and has become a monument for tourists.

6. Zhongshan Park: Located on the north side of Zhongshan Road, it was built in 1926 with a total area of 2, square meters. Surrounded by green water in the garden, pavilions and rockeries and strange rocks constitute a unique scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. In the north of the 3-meter-high main entrance archway, there are four characters written by Sun Yat-sen, "The world is for the public". In the park, elderly women often gather together to do needlework and sing the unique rap art "Chaozhou Song Book" and Chaozhou Opera. Visitors may wish to listen to it when they come here, which can be regarded as collecting wind.

7. Jinsha Park

8. Stone Fort Park

9. Overseas Chinese Park

1. Qingyun Rock Scenic Area: Located on the mountainside of Dawangfeng in Dahao District, it is built according to natural caves, with nearly 1 cliff stone carvings in the past dynasties, which is known as "the first mountain with a sea country wind

light". Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Buddhism and Taoism have successively built temples on the mountain. The Yunyan Zen Forest on the mountain is a Buddhist temple but opposite to the Xuanwu Temple of Taoism. The Taoist temple at the foot of the mountain is also dedicated to the statue of Buddha, which embodies the characteristics of Buddhism and Taoism in Chaoshan area. There are pavilions and caves in the mountains, and the circle turns around. There are flying springs splashing stones, which are sonorous, so it is called "Longquan Musical Rhyme". There is a teahouse here for tourists to have a rest.

11. Chenghai Chen Cifu's former residence tourist area: Chen Cifu's former residence is located in Qianmei Village, Longdu Town, Chenghai City. It was founded in the second year of Guangxu in hong Dynasty (1876), covering an area of 25,4 square meters, with a building area of 16,8 square meters and 56 rooms.

This residence is a large-scale residential building group built by Chen Cifu, a famous overseas Chinese industrialist and financier in Thailand, and his family in his hometown. It is a typical modern residential building and can be called "the first overseas Chinese residence in Lingnan".

Chen's family managed overseas transportation in the early years, and then set up an industry in Thailand, which made them rich. He has always been enthusiastic about public welfare undertakings, running schools and repairing roads, and is famous at home and abroad. Since 191, his family has spent several decades building Langzhongdi, Shanbedroom, Shou Kang Li and Sanliu in their hometown, with 56 halls, covering an area of 25,4 square meters, with a huge scale. The architectural form has the characteristics of national style and Chaoshan rural residence, and it also blends the characteristics of western architecture. It is simple and elegant, and it is a typical Chinese-western wall building in early China. Now it has been renovated, and it has become a must-see spot for tourism, and it has been adopted as a place to shoot Chaoshan movies and TV shows.

12. Chenghai Lianhuashan Hot Spring Resort

13. Chenghai Tashan Scenic Area

14. Tropic of Cancer Sign Tower: A globe with a diameter of 5 meters is supported by a bracket in the shape of "North". Location: The mountainside of Jilong Mountain in the northwest suburb of jinping district, Shantou.