Zhaoqing

Zhaoqing City is located in the middle west of Guangdong Province, neighboring Qingyuan City, Guangxi Province, Yunfu City and Foshan City separately in the northeast, northwest, south and southeast. It covers an area of 1, 5000 square kilometers and has a population of 4.05 million. It enjoys convenient transportation and obvious location advantage. Adjacent to the developed areas including Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macau in the east and Southwest China in the west, Zhaoqing is the traffic hub for the developed areas to the Southeast China.

As one of the cradles of Lingnan aborigine culture, Zhaoqing is a national historical and cultural city with a history of over 2, 200 years. According to archeological discoveries, there was the trace of human activity as long as about 140, 000 years ago. Moreover, it is also proved to be the birthplace of Cantonese.

It has abundant tourist resources. In the city proper, there is a picturesque attraction - Seven Star Cave. The lake and mountain are harmonious with each other. The mountain looks into the lake as if a beauty is looking into a mirror and appreciating its breathtaking appearance. The mountain is like that of Yangshuo and the crystal water resembles that of Guilin.

No wonder it gets the name "The greatest spectacle in the South of the Five Ridges". As the most famed one of the four well-known mountains in Guangdong, Dinghu Mountain is high with thick forests; age-old trees reach into sky; birds are singing happily in the fragrance of flowers. It is a national nature reserve and is identified by the UNESCO as an ecological research station of "human and biosphere".