14 Facts About Jiangmen

Jiangmen, alternately romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China.

Jiangmen is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese name or, based on its pronunciation in the Mandarin dialect.

Jiangmen was forced to open up to western trade in 1904, after a 1902 declaration which made it a treaty port.

Jiangmen city has an area of 9, 260 square kilometres, about one quarter the size of the Pearl River Delta.

Jiangmen was selected by the Chinese state as a pilot city for a nationwide information programme.

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Economic development strategies within Jiangmen focus on the three urban districts, and the south, middle and north lines.

Some worldwide brand which have factories in Jiangmen such include Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings and Lee Kum Kee foods.

Jiangmen Port is the second largest river port in Guangdong province.

Jiangmen is the ancestral homeland of approximately 4 million overseas Chinese, who live in 107 countries and regions throughout the world.

The dialect spoken in Jiangmen city itself is a Siyi Yue dialect, but is distinct from the Taishanese spoken in Taishan City.

Only international school in Jiangmen is Boren Sino-Canadian School, while bilingual schools include WuYi Country Garden Bilingual School and China-Hong Kong English School.

Jiangmen has a mature network of inter-city and intra-city highways and expressways, whose total length has reached 10, 084.

S32 Western Coastal Expressway goes along Jiangmen's coastlines, linking Zhuhai at the east and Yangjiang at the west.

Since the late 2012, Jiangmen is served by the freight-only Guangzhou–Zhuhai Railway.