Enping

Enping, formerly romanized as Yanping, is a county-level city in Guangdong, China, administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Jiangmen. The area around Enping is known for its many hot springs. Enping is located in southwest Guangdong, at the edge of the Pearl River Delta and beside the South China Sea. Enping borders Kaiping to the northeast and Yangjing to the southwest. Enping County was established in AD 220. Under the Qing, it made up part of the commandery of Zhaoqing and was one of the Four Counties responsible for much of the early Chinese diaspora from Guangdong in the 19th century. Many overseas Chinese trace their ancestry to Enping, particularly among the Chinese in Venezuela. Emigration to Venezuela occurred primarily in the decades including and following the World Wars, with the largest batch leaving at the end of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1970s. Enping was made a county-level city in 1994.