Baishui () is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in Longhai

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

, in the municipal region of

Zhangzhou Zhangzhou (), alternately romanized as Changchow, is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and surrounding the prefect ...

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ...

. It lies on the right bank of the

Jiulong River The Jiulong River, formerly known as the Longjiang or Zhangjiang, is the largest rivers of China, river in southern Fujian and the second largest in the province. It has a length of and a basin of . Like all Fujianese rivers Ting River, but ...

's south branch.

Specialities

Baishui is famous for its peanut candy, cooked and packaged in streetfront shops throughout the town.

Administration

The town runs 1 neighbourhood and 15

village committee The villagers' committee (), shortened as ''cunweihui'' in Chinese, also translated as village committee, is a grassroots mass autonomous organization for self-management, self-education and self-service for villagers in Mainland China. It adopt ...

s. Population : 44682 (2003)

Villages

* Baishui () * Fangtian () * Xifeng () * Jiaobian () * Loukeng () * JinAo () * Jingyuan () * Shanmei () * Zhuanglin () * Cimei () * Shanbian () * Xialiao () * Daxia () * Xiatian ()

Transportation

Dongyuan Town Dongyuan may refer to the following locations in China: *Dongyuan County (东源县), Heyuan, Guangdong * Dongyuan railway station (东园站), station on the Beijing–Baotou Railway in Beijing *Dongyuan (Hebei), a former town in Zhengding Cou ...

lies right across the river and is accessible by ferry. A faster, closed-cabin boat takes passengers downriver to Xiamen (40 min). The Shenyang-Haikou Expressway passes through the town, but has no exit/entrance here.

Notes and references

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