Songkou Town, Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province

Songkou Town belongs to Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, which is located in the northeast of the region and downstream of Meijiang River. It is a national key town. Since the merger of Songkou, Songdong and Songnan, it has become the largest town in Meixian District, with a total population of more than 73, and an area of 328.6 square kilometers [1]? .

Songkou Town is one of the four ancient towns in Lingnan in ancient times, and it is the core area of cultural tourism characteristic area in Meizhou, Guangdong Province. Songkou Port used to be the second largest port of inland river port in Guangdong Province. Meikan Railway, provincial highway S223, S332 and the national defense highway from Baidu Town in Meixian District of Meizhou City to Sanheba in Dabu run through this town, which is an important distribution center for business in surrounding towns, a battleground for military strategists since ancient times and one of the ancient battlefields in history.

Songkou is an ancient town with a history of 1,2 years, which is rich in historical and cultural relics. Because it is located in the crossroads of Fujian and Guangdong, and the old waterways are developed, Songkou Town has also become the first stop for Hakka people in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi to leave Nanyang in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. [2]? At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of Han people from the counties of Tingzhou Prefecture in Fujian moved into Songkou. Most of these Han people came from Shibi, Ninghua County, Fujian Province. The Han people who moved to Songkou lived and worked in peace and contentment in this hot land, and developed rapidly. After the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the population of Songkou was so full that they moved to other places to make a living, and some of them went out to Nanyang Islands to make a living. Today, there are about 7, people in Songkou Town, and there are more than 8, overseas Chinese living abroad. It is one of the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China.

Songkou is rich in Hakka cultural resources, with the fragrance of Hakka culture everywhere. It is a well-developed place with a strong literary style and enjoys the reputation of being a hometown of culture, overseas Chinese and folk songs.

with the goal of "building a new area, renovating the old area and shaping the new image of Songkou", Songkou Town has accelerated its development, and built the government of Songkou Town in Meixian District of Meizhou City, the Second People's Hospital in Meixian District, the police station, the court, the land tax, the land and traffic control departments in the newly developed area of Sikeng, and intensified the renovation of the old area, renovating Zhongshan Road, Laoaiqun Building and Fazheng Road, etc., and urbanized.