Jiangmen

Jiangmen, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China. Jiangmen City is located in south-central of Guangdong Province, west of the Pearl River Delta. Adjacent to Zhongshan in the east and Foshan in the north, the city faces southward to the South Sea and neighboring Hong Kong and Macau. In the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), bazaars began to be gathered in this area. In early years of the 17th Century, it gradually became a trade center in the Pearl River Delta, being a busy place of distribution in the middle and lower reaches of the Xijiang River. This place used to be a dependency of the Xinhui County, but since 1925, it became independent city. It is a well-known town of oversea compatriots. As early as the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the local people began to leave home and settle abroad.

The most significant are the fortified multi-story towers found mainly in Kaiping. These are known as "Gold Mountain Towers" or diaolou. Number of natural Hotspring resorts has been developed successfully by using its wealthy natural heated ground water resources such as Gudou Hotspring Resort. Guifeng Mountain is a well-known mountain visited by many tourists, it is the peak of Jiangmen with an elevation of 545 meters above sea level.