The Mei River ( Chinese: 梅江;

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

: Méi Jiāng) is a

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

Meizhou Meizhou ( zh, t=梅州, 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 as of the 2020 census. It comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xing ...

City in the eastern part of the

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

province in southern China and a tributary of the Han River. Major bridges over it include the Jianying Memorial Bridge. It is formed by the confluence of the Wuhua River and the Qin River near the town of Hekoucun in

Wuhua County Wuhua County (, Hakka: Ng-Fa Yen) is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Meizhou in the east of Guangdong Province, China. Names Wuhua was formerly known as Changle (). Administrative divisions The county is respon ...

. Important tributaries include the Songyuan River, Shiku River, Zhou Xi River, Cheng River, and

Ning River Ning River () is a tributary of Mei River. It originates and runs through Xingning, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, ...

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