Gaozhou
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| GaoZhou | |
| — County-level city — | |
| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| - Traditional | 高州 |
|---|---|
| - Simplified | 高州 |
| - Pinyin | gāozhōu |
| Coordinates: 21°55′28″N 110°50′32″E / 21.92444°N 110.84222°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture | Maoming |
| County seat | Panzhou (潘州) |
| Area | |
| - Total | 3,276 km2 (1,264.9 sq mi) |
| Population (2002) | |
| - Total | 1,500,000 |
| - Density | 457.9/km2 (1,185.9/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 525200 |
| Area code(s) | 0668 |
| Website | http://www.gaozhou.gov.cn/ |
Gaozhou (Chinese: 高州; pinyin: Gāozhōu; Yale Cantonese: Kochow; Gaoyang dialect (Yale Romanization): Kochow) is a county-level city in Maoming City, Guangdong province of southwest China. It has a population of 1500,000 as of 2002 and total area of 3276 km².[1] The locals speak a variation of the Gaozhou dialect.
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[edit] Administration
Administratively, Gaozhou City is under the jurisdiction of Maoming. It is a historically important city in Guangdong. It was set up as a city in 1993. Gaozhou consists of five part cities: Panzhou, Shanmei, Baoguan, Shizailing, and Jinshan. also including Dajing, Shigu, Changpo, Fengjie and another 23 towns.
[edit] Geography
Gaozhou City is located 420 km away from Shenzhen and Guangzhou, 450 km away from Hong Kong.
Gaozhou is a small town located around 400 kilometres away from Guangzhou, China and can be reached by car in four to five hours. Gaozhou is a town which is quite different from Guangzhou in the sense that the lives of people here revolve around a good family life, frequent social visits, an emphasis on education and time taken for leisure activities like sports. For entertainment, people here frequent KTV bars, or drive up to Maoming, a bigger town located 60 kilometres from here.
Gaozhou has few important landmarks and most places do not even have a mailing address. However the prominent landmark is the Gaozhou middle school, home to over 10000 students who are all mostly from Gaozhou and the surrounding small towns and villages. The school is set in the midst of picturesque hills and is well equipped with a boarding school, sports facilities, a dining hall, and classrooms with computers, projectors and sound systems. The school was founded more than a hundred years ago and over the years has developed into one of the finest schools in Guangdong. Extreme care is taken to ensure the well being of the student and to guarantee success in the school examinations. While to most day scholars, the routine may sound daunting and almost prison like, for the average Gaozhou student though the routine hardly seems a bother, so much so that some even enjoy the cold showers and non stop pressure to excel in studies.
What might be of interest to the gastronomer or the rural tourist are the litchee farms located in and around Gaozhou that have garnered special attention to become tourist destinations and also find place on the food shelves of Carrefour supermarkets around Guangdong, thanks to the co-operative farming initiatives between the local government and the French chain.
Life in Gaozhou is quiet, almost as if it is a still photograph waiting for new character.
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "jinrigaozhou" (in Chinese). http://www.gaozhou.gov.cn/. Retrieved on 2008-07-12.
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