Shaoguan

Shaoguan

China
Wade-Giles romanization  Shao-kuan , formerly  Shaozhou  or  Qujiang 

      city, northern Guangdong sheng (province), southern China. It lies along the Bei River at the point where it is formed by the junction of the Wu River, flowing southeast from the borders of Hunan, and the Zhen River, flowing southwest from the borders of Jiangxi (Kiangsi) province. Shaoguan thus commands not only the principal overland route from Guangzhou (Canton) (Canton) to central and northern China but also the major route via the river systems into Hunan and the other route via the Meiling Pass into Jiangxi. It thus remained a major transportation centre both when the Hunan route predominated (i.e., before the 6th century and after the construction of the Hankou-Guangzhou railway in 1937, which passes through Shaoguan) and when the Jiangxi route was more important during the intervening centuries.

      Under the name Qujiang, the site was a county founded under the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) in 111 BCE. It became the seat of a commandery in 265 CE and received the name Shao prefecture in 618. During the Ming (Ming dynasty) (1368–1644) and Qing (Qing dynasty) (1644–1911/12) periods, it was a superior prefecture named Shaozhou, and it reverted to county status in 1912. Its greatest period of prosperity was in the 18th and early 19th centuries, when Guangzhou monopolized all foreign commerce, and trade by the overland route was at its height. After the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64), which badly affected this and neighbouring areas in the early 1850s, the trade diminished. Shaoguan again experienced a period of somewhat artificial growth during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), when it became the provincial capital after the Japanese occupation of coastal Guangdong cities in 1938.

      Shaoguan remains primarily a commercial and communication centre; the timber, livestock, tobacco, tung oil, and other natural products of the mountains of northern Guangdong are collected there, and manufactures from Guangzhou are shipped through it into Jiangxi. The surrounding mountainous districts are rich in minerals, particularly iron ore, tungsten, and antimony. More recently, the city has developed as a provincial base for heavy industry and raw and processed materials, including lead and zinc mining, metallurgy, manufacturing (machinery, building materials, and tobacco products), and electric-power generation. Pop. (2002 est.) 463,272.

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