Lufeng, Guangdong

Lufeng 陆丰市
County-level city
Xuanwu Mountain,Jieshi Town, Lufeng City
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
Prefecture-level city	Shanwei
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Lufeng, Guangdong
Traditional Chinese	陸豐市
Simplified Chinese	陆丰市
Postal	Lukfung
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lùfēngshì

Template:Chinesetext Lufeng City is a county-level city in the Shanwei municipal region of Guangdong Province, China, on the South China Sea coast, east of Hong Kong.

Lufeng City is situated next to the county of Haifeng (also under Shanwei but not yet upgraded); the area is sometimes conjointly referred to as Hailufeng.

History

The county was half of the short-lived Haifeng-Lufeng Soviet established 1927.

The county-level city's Jieshi Town was the scene of serious inter-village violence in October 2009 and March 2010.

In September 2011, a series of protests occurred in Wukan Village over allegations of official party members unfairly selling farmers' land for development. Fresh protests broke out in December, when one of the village leaders died in the police custody. The police blocked the roads leading to the village.

See also: 2011 Lufeng city riot

Demography

Lufeng has a population of 1.7 million, the majority of which are of Hoklo heritage; the rest are Hakka. Therefore, dialects of both Min Nan and Hakka are spoken, in addition to Mandarin, which is used in official and public life. The Hailufeng dialect, however, only refers to the Hokkien variant.

Administration

As of 2005 year's end, the city comprises three urban subdistricts and 17 towns. These are organised into 47 neighbourhood committees and 280 village committees.

The city's executive, legislature and judiciary are located in the Donghai Subdistrict (东海街道), together with the CPC subbranch and PSB suboffice. Wukan Village, site of the Wukan protests, is also located in the Donghai subdistrict.

Urban subdistricts

• Donghai (东海)
• Chengdong (城东)
• Hexi (河西)

Towns

• Jieshi (碣石)
• Qiaochong (桥冲)
• Bomei (博美)
• Jiazi (甲子)
• Jiadong (甲东)
• Jiaxi (甲西)
• Hudong (湖东)
• Beiyang (陂洋)
• Nantang (南塘)
• Bawan (八万)
• Tanxi (潭西)
• DaAn (大安)
• Jinxiang (金厢)
• Neihu (内湖)
• Xinan (西南)
• Shangying (上英)
• Hedong (河东)