Jinping District () is the central business district and the seat of

Shantou Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative ...

prefecture-level city in the

Guangdong Province Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

of Mainland China. The site the district stands on is the old city of Shantou established by Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty in AD 1369, with the name derived from Shashantou Fort built in the city 4 centuries later. The Jinping administrative district was established in 2003, and serves as a major hub for manufacturing, shipping and tourism. The district government is located at No. 50 Jinsha Middle Road.

Administrative divisions

There are 12

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 ...

s in the district:

Famous Sites and Landmarks

Shantou City Hall - Established in AD 1921 during the old Republic of China.
Shashantou Fort - Established in AD 1717 by the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty.

Haibin Stadium Haibin Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Shantou, Guangdong, China. It was opened on 28 May 1986 with capacity of 10,000. Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played bet ...

- The downtown Shantou soccer arena.

Education

* Feixia Middle School

References

Shantou County-level divisions of Guangdong {{Guangdong-geo-stub