The background of Mei CityThere are different meanings to the existence of Plum City. The following is the relevant background:
- ** Zhejiang Jiande Meicheng **:
- In terms of historical status, it was located in Jiande City's Chengnan West Road and had a thousand years of history. Originally, it was the seat of Yanzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang Prefecture. It was as famous as Huzhou Prefecture, Hangzhou Prefecture, Shaoxing Prefecture, Jinhua Prefecture, etc. It used to be a prefecture-level city and had always been the political, cultural, commercial, and shipping center of tens of thousands of square kilometers in western Zhejiang. It had been the seat of the state capital for more than 1,300 years since the early Tang Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, Yanzhou Prefecture was the country's high-end talent output. The success of the imperial examination had produced many top scholars, scholars, and scholars. After these scholars passed the imperial examination, they became officials of the imperial court and built dozens of memorial archways for them.
- In terms of the origin of the name, the most popular saying was that a section of the ancient city wall near the river was shaped like a plum blossom, so it was called Plum Blossom City, or Mei City for short. It was located at the confluence of the Fuchun River, Xin 'an River, and Lan River. However, it gradually declined from a regional city that was almost equivalent to Hangzhou to an ordinary town with only tens of thousands of people. Now, it was a thousand-year-old town under the jurisdiction of Jiande Hangzhou City.
- ** Guangdong Meizhou Urban area **: Located in the northeast of Guangdong Province, it is composed of the Urban area under the jurisdiction of Meijiang District and Mei County District. It bordered Jiaoling County and Fujian Province in the east, Dapu County and Fengshun County in the south, Wuhua County and Xingning City in the west, and Pingyuan County and Jiaoling County in the north. The city center was located at 116 degrees 6 minutes east and 24 degrees 33 minutes north. The geological structure was complex. It was mainly composed of granite, exhalative rock, metamorphosed rock, sand and slate, red rock, and limestone, which formed five major types of landforms: platform, hills, mountains, terraces, and plains. 24.3% of the land is mountainous, 56.6% is hilly and terrace, 13.7% is plain, and 5.4% is river and reservoir. There are many mineral resources and broad prospects for development. There are 48 kinds of proven coal, iron, copper, Manganese, lead, lead, silver, stibine, rare earth, limestone, granite, marble, etc., and more than 530 deposits. Among them, coal reserves are 270 million tons, ranking second in the province. Manganese and iron reserves account for 20% and 30% of the province respectively. Rare earth in Wuhua County, copper in Mei County District, limestone in Jiaoling County, porcelain clay in Dapu County, iron in Pingyuan County, and coal in Xingning City are rich in reserves and high in grade.