Wanqingsha town
Wanqingsha town is located at the southernmost tip of Guangzhou, in the center of the "Golden Triangle" of Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macao. It is 52 kilometers away from Guangzhou in the north, 75 kilometers away from Shenzhen in the southeast, 69 kilometers away from Zhuhai in the southwest, and 23 nautical miles away from Hong Kong in the southeast along the waterway.
In October 2019, Wanqingsha town was selected as one of the "Top 1000 towns with comprehensive strength in China in 2019".
Historical evolution
More than 200 years ago, Wanqingsha area was called wuzhu ocean. Because it is located at the mouth of the Pearl River, the interaction of the East, West and North River runoff from the land and the South China Sea surge makes a large amount of sediment deposited in Humen, Jiaomen, Hengmen and hongqili four major sea outlets. Wanqingsha town was originally a shallow beach.
In 1838, the Ming Lun hall in Dongguan was reclaimed here, which means that in the great flood of the ocean, thousands of hectares of sandy land were created, hence the name of Wanqingsha town.
In 1953, together with Nansha, Longxue Island, Changsha village, Dahu mountain and Xiaohu mountain, it was designated as the Fourth District of Zhuhai county.
In 1954, daaosha, lixinsha and guanwasha, which were separated from Zhongshan County, were incorporated into the four districts of Zhuhai.
In the autumn of 1955, it was renamed Wanqingsha district.
In 1957, it was assigned to Zhongshan County and renamed Wanqingsha township.
In October 1958, it merged with Zhujiang farm to form Wanqingsha commune.
In January 1959, Zhujiang farm was separated and Huangge commune was merged; in April, Huangge was changed into Dagang commune; in July, it was divided into Panyu.
In March 1961, Nansha commune was established.
In 1984, it was a ten thousand hectare sand area.
Wanqingsha town in 1987.
In March 2002, the original Xinken town was merged into Wanqingsha town. Wanqingsha town has 15 village committees and 2 neighborhood committees, with an administrative area of 319.2 square kilometers, including 160 square kilometers of land and 150 square kilometers of water area, with a total population of 40400.
In 2005, with the approval of the State Council, Nansha District was established in Guangzhou. In October of that year, Wanqingsha town was formally transferred from Panyu District to Nansha District. Wanqingsha became the largest town in Nansha Development Zone.
In January 2009, the Pearl River administrative area was removed from the district and set up streets. The administrative and social affairs of Longxue Island were under the management of Wanqingsha Town, and the Wanqingsha central community was under the jurisdiction of Zhujiang street.
As of 2017, the town (township) has a total administrative area of 142.85 square kilometers and a permanent population of 50210.
administrative division
Wanqingsha town has jurisdiction over two neighborhood committees: Wanqingsha and Xinken; 15 village committees: Shawei No.1 village, Shawei No.2 village, Minjian village, Minxing village, Minli village, Fu'an village, Xin'an village, Nianfeng village, Tongxing village, Honghu village, Honggang village, Hongyang village, Hongjiang village, Honghai village and engineering village; reclamation farm and reclamation company.
Get honor
In October 2019, Wanqingsha town was selected as one of the "Top 1000 towns with comprehensive strength in China in 2019".
On the list of "Top 1000 towns with comprehensive strength in 2018".
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