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29-627: The China Sevens , most recently hosted in Huizhou , is an international rugby sevens tournament contested by national teams. The inaugural event, held in Shanghai, was a leg of the IRB World Sevens Series in 2001 . The tournament moved to Beijing for 2002 . From 2009 to 2012 the tournament returned to Shanghai as an official event within the Asian Sevens Series . The event was hosted at

58-531: A humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification : Cwa ). Summers are long, hot and humid. Winters are short, mild and dry. Daya Bay is located to the southeast of Huizhou City, on the South China Sea, with waters covering an area of nearly 500 km (190 sq mi). There are nearly 100 islands and reefs in the bay. The climate is described as a typical subtropical oceanic climate , with temperatures averaging 21.8 °C (71.2 °F) over

87-586: A population of 3,617,800, 97.69% of Huizhou's population. There are 85,500 residents of minority ethnic groups, including Yao and She , representing 2.31% of the population. The Han population includes Hakka and Hoklo people. The Hakka are distributed widely in each district and county of the prefecture-level city, and Huizhou has Hakka walled villages . The Hoklo are concentrated in Boluo County and Huidong County. In Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, there are more than 800,000 people of Huizhou ancestry. Located in

116-615: Is the headquarters of the 42nd Group Army of the People's Liberation Army , one of the two group armies that comprise the Guangzhou Military Region responsible for the defense of China's southern coast and its border with Vietnam . Educational facilities in Huizhou include: Huizhou is a well-known city of sports in China with the opening of Huizhou Olympic Stadium in 2010. Huizhou has

145-575: The 2020 census , the city's permanent population was 6,042,852, representing an increase of 1,444,450 people, or 31.43%, from the 2010 census . Between 2000 and 2010, the average annual increase over that 10-year period was 3.64%. As of 2010, the population included 2,419,258 males (52.63%) and 2,177,744 females (47.37%), for a sex ratio of 111.09 males for every 100 females. There were 809,270 children aged 0–14 (17.6%); 3,517,928 people aged 15–64 (76.53%), and 269,804 people aged 65 and older (5.87%). The majority of Huizhou's residents are Han Chinese , with

174-744: The Chaoyang Stadium in Beijing for 2014, then Qingdao in 2015 and Huizhou in 2019. Key:   Light blue border on the left indicates a tournament included in the World Rugby Sevens Series.   Dark blue border on the left indicates a tournament included in the Asia Rugby Sevens Series . ^ Huizhou was scheduled for 26-27 September as the third leg of the 2020 Asian Sevens Series, prior to August 2020 when Asia Rugby cancelled all their remaining competitions for

203-567: The Song dynasty , Huizhou was a prefectural capital of the Huiyang prefecture and the cultural center of the region. The West Lake in Huizhou was formerly known as Feng Lake. At the age of 59, Su Shi was exiled to Huizhou by the imperial government of Song. When he visited Feng Lake in Huizhou, he found it located in the west of the city and was as beautiful as West Lake in Hangzhou . Therefore, he renamed it

232-669: The Tang Clan in honour of Zhou Youde and Wang Lairen. The event was also remembered centuries later by the manufacture and sale by pedlars of images of the two men, as recorded for the Yuen Long District of the New Territories of Hong Kong at the end of the 19th century. Hakka dialect-speaking communities are thought to have arrived in the Hong Kong area after the rescinding of the coastal evacuation order. Their immigration into

261-463: The 20th century due to wars . After the 1980s, Huizhou developed as a manufacturing base. In ancient China, Huizhou and Heyuan were a part of the remote Lingnan region. In pre- Tang times, the population included Baiyue peoples ( Zhuang , Yao , Hmong , Tanka , and She ) but very few Han Chinese aside from imperial Chinese soldiers. According to the Huiyang County annals (2003), during

290-552: The County was to be absorbed into the adjoining Dongguan County. By the 5th year of Kangxi, Xin'an had ceased to be a separate administrative county. When the new boundaries were fixed, the inhabitants living outside them were given notice to move inland. These orders were enforced by troops. The result was that whole communities were uprooted from their native place, deprived of their means of livelihood and compelled to settle where they could. The rural people risked their lives if they ignored

319-656: The Pearl River Delta, Huizhou is one of the 9 prefecture-level cities in the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone (include Huizhou urban area, Huiyang, Huidong and Boluo only). TCL , a major TV and multinational consumer electronics company is headquartered in Huizhou. The Huizhou Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone (DBETDZ) was approved by the State Council in 1993. It had an initial area of 9.98 km (3.85 sq mi), and in 2006,

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348-490: The State Council expanded the zone to 23.6 km (9.1 sq mi) in three phases. Industries encouraged in the zone include Automobile Production/Assembly, Chemical Production and Processing and Electronics Assembly & Manufacturing. The Huizhou Export Processing Zone was approved by Guangdong Provincial Government as a subzone of DBETDZ in June 2005. The planned area was 3 km (1.2 sq mi) in size. The zone

377-478: The West Lake. In order to solve the traffic problems on both sides of West Lake, he invested to help build two bridges. Later generations named bridges as the bridge Su Di to commemorate his achievements. And the two bridges in the West Lake becomes one of the eight scenic spots in the West Lake, called "Su Di Play Moon". Huizhou used to be a prosperous region, specializing in commerce and trading, which changed during

406-617: The bay recent years. Huizhou is twinned with: Great Clearance The edict was first issued by the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing dynasty in 1661, the last year of his rule. With the Shunzhi Emperor's death in the same year, his son, the Kangxi Emperor (1661–1722), succeeded this edict under a regency led by Oboi (1661–1669). The ban on human settlement of those coastal areas

435-409: The coast followed prolonged earlier years of miseries and had a profound effect on the lives of the population and on the pattern of future settlement. The survivors' hardships did not end when they returned to take up their interrupted lives in their old homes, for it is recorded that destructive typhoons in 1669 and 1671 destroyed the new houses in many places. The Evacuation has had a great impact on

464-491: The evacuation was rescinded in 1669. When the ban was lifted in 1668, the coastal defense was reinforced. Twenty-one fortified mounds , each manned with an army unit, were created along the border of Xin'an County , and at least five of them were located in present-day Hong Kong. In 1682, these forces were re-organized and manned by detachments from the Green Standard Army with reduced strength. The evacuation of

493-579: The government edict to move, or ventured back into the prohibited area. It is recorded that about 16,000 persons from Xin'an were driven inland. What is now the territory of Hong Kong became largely wasteland during the ban. The ban was lifted in 1669, following a request by the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi Zhou Youde ( 周有德 ) and Governor of Guangdong Wang Lairen ( 王來任 ), and residents were allowed to return to their original homes. Only 1,648 of those who left are said to have returned when

522-456: The late Yuan dynasty (14th century), what is now Huizhou had only 45,410 inhabitants in 9,545 households. That corresponds to one household or five people per square kilometer. Most of the 6 million inhabitants in Huizhou and Heyuan are descended from people who migrated during the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties and during the Qing dynasty after the Great Clearance . According to

551-510: The leadership of Zheng Chenggong ( Koxinga ), who used his influence on the coastal areas to support the movement. The measure was in accordance with a five-point plan to deal with Koxinga, suggested by one of his former lieutenants who had gone over to the Qing. Its adoption was due to a conviction that Koxinga's campaigning against the new dynasty could not be continued if aid and supplies were denied him in this way. Enforcement of this drastic measure

580-630: The minds of local people and their descendants. It is recalled in the genealogies and traditions of some of the longsettled clans of the County: it is commemorated in the construction and continued repair of temples to the two officials who strove to have the order rescinded. An example is the Chou Wong Yi Kung Study Hall in Shui Tau Tsuen , in Kam Tin , Hong Kong , which was erected in 1685 by

609-710: The railway. Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport is a one-and-a-half hour drive from the zone. The Huizhou Zhongkai HIDZ has also established electronics, information technology and optical-, mechanical- and electronic-integration as its major industries. It also encourages investment in new materials, telecommunications, and other high-tech industries. The zone is one of the National Electronic Information Industry Bases and National Video and Audio Products Parks in China. The prefecture-level city of Huizhou administers 5 county-level divisions , including 2 districts and 3 counties . Huicheng ,

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638-748: The urban center of Huizhou, is served by the Jingjiu Railway (also known as the Guangmeishan Railway in Guangdong) with two stations: Huizhou West and Huizhou . Huizhou itself is vast as Los Angeles County with sparse rail service as compared with bay peer cities. Huizhou Pingtan Airport reopened in 2015. Additionally the town is about a one and one half-hour drive by bus from Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport . There are also coach bus services connecting Huizhou with Hong Kong International Airport . A mass rapid transit linking it to Shenzhen

667-538: The west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Heyuan to the northeast, Shanwei to the east, and Daya Bay of the South China Sea to the south. As of the 2020 census, the city has about 6,042,852 inhabitants and is administered as a prefecture-level city . Huizhou's core metropolitan area, which is within Huicheng and Huiyang Districts, is home to around 2,090,578 inhabitants. During

696-471: The year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic . ^ Huizhou was scheduled for 25-26 September as the third leg of the 2021 Asian Sevens Series, but was subsequently replaced in the calendar by Dubai. Huizhou Huizhou ( Chinese : 惠州 ) is a city in central-east Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong . Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to

725-628: The year. Historically, Daya Bay had whales and turtles. The bay was one of the breeding grounds along the southern coast of China for Asian population of gray whales which are now one of the most endangered whale population in the world. They migrated here to calve in the winter-spring seasons. Other species, such as humpback whales also migrated here historically. All of these were wiped out by Japanese whalers established whaling stations on various sites on Chinese coasts including at nearby Daya Bay. Critically endangered Chinese white dolphins and occasional whales such as humpbacks have been confirmed in

754-511: Was considered suitable for companies focusing on electronics, auto parts, textiles and chemicals. The Huizhou Zhongkai High-tech Industrial Development Zone is connected with Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan by the Huizhou-Shenzhen Highway, Guangzhou-Huizhou Highway and Dongguan-Huizhou Highway. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway and Huizhou-Aotou Railway also run through the zone, linking it with Beijing , Hong Kong , and other cities along

783-446: Was extended to Xin'an County (which covered roughly the territory of modern-day Shenzhen and Hong Kong ) and adjacent counties of Guangdong in 1661. Two inspections determined the areas to be cleared. At the time of the first inspection up to a distance of 50 li from the coast, it was calculated that two-thirds of the territory of the County would be affected. A year later the boundary was extended further inland, and what remained of

812-588: Was lifted in 1669, and some residents were allowed to return. Yet, in 1679, the edict was issued again. In 1683, after the Qing defeated the Kingdom of Tungning in the Battle of Penghu and took control of Taiwan , the people from the cleared areas according to the edict were allowed to return and to live in the cleared areas. The goal was to fight the anti-Qing movement based in Taiwan, begun by Ming dynasty loyalists under

841-525: Was under construction as of 2011 . In April 2018, the China Daily announced that the world's first automatic railroad was currently under construction between Dongguan and Huizhou. As a pilot project, it would contain ten railway stations, driverless trains and robotic assistance for passengers with luggage and tickets. The main languages spoken in Huizhou are Hakka Chinese (Huiyang dialect), Huizhou dialect , Hokkien dialect, and Cantonese . Huizhou

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