Jiangnan () is a

subdistrict A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district. Equivalents * Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language * Kelurahan, in Indonesia * Mukim, a township in Brunei, In ...

of the

Meijiang District Meijiang () is a district of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Administrative divisions *Subdistricts (): ** Jinshan () **Jiangnan () ** Xijiao () *Towns: **Changsha () ** Sanjiao () ** Chengbei () Ethno-linguistic make-up Meijiang is no ...

Meizhou Meizhou (, Hakka Chinese: Mòichû) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, China. It has an area of , and a population of 3,873,239 million as of the 2020 census. It comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning City ...

City, Guangdong, China. The municipal government, Intermediate Court and CPC and PSB are all located in Jiangnan. Historically, Jiangnan and its neighbour

Jiangbei Jiangbei () may refer to: * Henan Jiangbei Province, during the Yuan dynasty * Jiangbei District, Chongqing, China * Jiangbei District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China * Jiangbei, Meizhou, Guangdong, China * Jiangbei (region), north of the Yangtze, Yangtze ...

formed the urban core of

Meixian District Meixian (, Hakka: Moiyen), formerly Meihsien, is a district (China), district of Meizhou, Meizhou City, in northeastern Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. The county is an important Hakka settlement and is the ancestral home of many Hakka de ...

, from which both Jiangbei and Jiangnan were carved according to the new systems of territorial administration following the 1949 Revolution. Both names refer to the

Mei River The Mei River (Chinese: 梅江; Pinyin: Méi Jiāng) is a river in Meizhou City in the eastern part of the Guangdong province in southern China and a tributary of the Han River. Major bridges over it include the Jianying Memorial Bridge Jian ...

(Méi Jiāng in

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese for ...

), which forms a large

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nearby. Jiangnan is on the right as one proceeds downstream, Jiangbei is on the left. The two districts are linked by many road and foot bridges.

References

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