Shanwei was in 1988 the locally administered level which authorized by the State Council to set up, including the urban district, Haifeng County, Luhe County, acted as an agent Lufeng city, and was equipped with the Honghai bay development zone and the overseas Chinese administrative district which both cities governed the economic zone, total population 3,230,000, land total area 5271 square kilometers.
Shanwei located at Guangdong Province southeast, south is close to the South China Sea, west is near Hong Kong, is in a Zhujiang Delta two hour economic cycle, the sea and land transportation extends in all directions, it is Zhujiang Delta links Guangdong Province's transportation corridor. in 324 federal highways, the Shen-Shan highway and the constructing Xia-Shen railroads cross the throughout. The sea area of Shanwei is 23,800 square kilometers, the Shanwei port is the rare natural deep water good harbour, and it is the national coast opens a kind of port, apart from the Pacific Ocean international sea route only 12 nautical miles, apart from the Hong Kong 81 nautical miles, can directly be open to navigation with internationally each open city, the coastlines is 302 kilometers, has the numerous deep bays and the deep water waterfront, has the excellent conditions on development near the port industry, the sea industry and the modern logistics.
Shanwei is at the root of mountains on the sea coast, having a moderate climate, the beautiful scenery, the blue sea and sky, the air is fresh, it is known as a land of attractive resources and magical power and a Birth place of creative minds and gifted talents, the fruitful in resources, having a galaxy of talents and cream of local culture and honest folkway. the public security is good, the business, entertainment, finance, traveling etc. service industries to be prosperous, that is containing the huge opportunity and the development potential, is suitable the human to occupy with the undertaking city, is the Zhujiang Delta industry shift new well-loved place.
Shanwei is the intersection point of Hakka culture, Guangfu cultures and the Chaoshan culture, it has had many history cultural heritage, the Zhenzi play, Baizi play, and Xijing play etc. are included by the country the non-material cultural heritage, specially the historical glorious Wonsan temple at Xuanwu mountain, in the home with places such as Southeast Asia enjoys the great reputation, is the world Chaoshan person belief Holy Land.
The Shanwei water resources is abundant, the electric power fruitful in resources, the price of soil, electricity, water, and labor force as well as each kind of expense are the entire province low levels, it has the competitive power strong investment, and low cost management superiority. The Shanwei industry system is perfect, the industry necessary, industrial developments and so on seale effect, technical support, industrial worker, delivery service must various essential factors also grow quite maturely, it have formed the electronic information, the clothing, the jewelry, the money jewelry, the Christmas product, pillar industries initially and so on woollen industries, shoemaking, aquatic product cultivation processing. Shanwei has four provincial level economic development zones, could control the resources and the development potential highlights the superiority, it is the fine carrier of constructing Hong Kong Industrial production Base and continues Zhujiang Delta the industry and the labor force “the double shift”.