Enping, alternately

romanized Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...

as Yanping, is a county-level city in Guangdong province, China, administered as part of the

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-level

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of Jiangmen. Enping administers an area of and had an estimated population of 460,000 in 2005. Its

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accounts for around 420,000

overseas Chinese Overseas Chinese () refers to people of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Terminology () or ''Hoan-kheh'' () in Hokkien, refe ...

, particularly in the

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. The area around Enping is known for its many

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Geography

Enping is located in southwest Guangdong, at the western edge of the

Pearl River Delta The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRD; ; pt, Delta do Rio das Pérolas (DRP)) is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. Referred to as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Mac ...

and beside the South China Sea. Enping borders Kaiping to the northeast and

Yangjing Yangjing may refer to these places in China: *Yangjing Subdistrict in Pudong District, Shanghai * Yangjing, Shaanxi in Dingbian County, Shaanxi See also *Yang Jing (disambiguation) Yang Jing (born 1953) is a former Chinese politician. Yang Jing o ...

to the southwest.

History

EnpingCounty was established in AD220. Under the

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...

, 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

trace their ancestry to Enping, particularly among the

Chinese in Venezuela Chinese Venezuelans ( es, Chino-venezolanos) are people of China, Chinese ancestry who were born in or have immigrated to Venezuela. The country is home to nearly 400,000 Chinese. P.201 Almost all their businesses are related to the culinary field. ...

. Migrants from Enping and their families make up about 200,000 of the country's estimated 400,000 Chinese. 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. The Enping financial crisis later in the decade led to a massive scandal and the loss of financial services in the city.

Administrative divisions

Enping comprises 10 towns, 3 sub-district offices, 4 farms and stations, and 174 village neighborhood committees.

Climate

Demographics

Enping is a part of the Greater Taishan Region or

Sze Yap The Siyi (Seiyap or Sze Yup in Cantonese; ) refers to the four former counties of Xinhui (Sunwui), Taishan (Toisan), Kaiping (Hoiping) and Enping (Yanping) on the west side of the Pearl River Delta in Southern Guangdong Province, China. Geograp ...

Region, which includes Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping and Taishan.

Notable people

* Ekin Cheng: Hong Kong actor and singer *

Katherine Sui Fun Cheung Katherine Sui Fun Cheung (; 1904–2003) was a Chinese aviator. She received one of the first private licenses issued to a Chinese woman and was the first Chinese woman to obtain an international flying license. She became a United States citize ...

: First Asian American woman aviator * Feng Ru: pioneering Chinese aviator and aircraft designer *

Douglas Jung Douglas Jung, (; February 25, 1924 – January 4, 2002) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, military officer, and Special Operations Executive secret agent. A Conservative, he was the first member of a visible minority elected to the Parliament ...

: Canadian politician and member of the Canadian Parliament * Peter T. Poon: Renowned Chinese American space scientist *

Harry Shum Jr. Harry Shum Jr. (born April 28, 1982) is an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and singer. He is best known for his roles as Mike Chang on the Fox television series ''Glee'' (2009–15), Benson Kwan on the ABC television series ''Grey's Anato ...

: Costa Rica-born American actor and dancer * John Shum: Hong Kong film producer and political activist * Tang Wensheng: America-born Chinese diplomat

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