According to the official website of Chaozhou Municipal People's Government, Chaozhou City, abbreviated as "Chao", is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, a city in the Shantou-Chaojie metropolitan area, and one of the four cities in Chaoshan, as well as a gateway city to the eastern part of Guangdong Province as approved by the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and, as of October 2022, it has two districts and one county under its jurisdiction. . As of the end of 2022, the resident population of Chaozhou City was 2,575,600, with an urban population of 1,669,200 and an urbanization rate of 64.81%.