Chaozhou Hotels

Chaozhou is a city in Guangdong. Chaozhou is a famous historical and cultural city in the country. The city's feature is known as "Classic Tourist City" which receives numerous tourists both from abroad and home. There are many valuable historic relics in Chaozhou city, totally about 600 units and among them 42 are classified as the state, provincial and city's key preservation units of cultural relics. The Teochew dialect/Chaozhou Dialect, Chaozhou opera, Chaozhou Chinese tea ceremony, etc. have unique features of Chaozhou culture, attracting numerous tourists from home and abroad, and are the richly endowed tourist resources. In 214 BC, Chaozhou was an undeveloped and unnamed part of Nanhai Commandry of the Qin Empire. In 331 (during the Eastern Jin Dynasty), Haiyang District was established as a part of Dongguan Commandry . Dongguan Commandry was renamed to Yi'an Commandry in 413. The commandry became a prefecture in 590; first as Xun Prefecture (??, Xunzhou), then as Chao Prefecture (??, Chaozhou) in the following year. In 1914, the Republic of China government combined Chao and Xun prefectures into Chaoxun Prefecture or Chaoxun Circuit . For a short while in Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty, Haiyang District was Yian District . The district's name had been Haiyang until 1914, when it was renamed to Chao'an County to avoid ambiguity with the Haiyang County of Shandong Province. The seat of the 1951 Guangdong People's government was at Chao'an County, a part of it was created as Chao'an City in 1953 and later that year renamed to Chaozhou City (county-level). In 1955, the provincial seat is moved to Shantou. Chaozhou City was abolished five years later, and remade again in 1979. In 1983, the situation was reversed, with Chao'an abolished and made a part of Chaozhou City. Chaozhou was made a provincially administered city in January 1989, and a vice-prefecture-level city in January 1990. Together, Chaozhou and Shantou are called "Chao-Shan" , and Chaoshan has been the name of the joint political administrative area from 1958 until 1983. For the next five years, Shantou City was a higher-level city that contained Chaozhou. As of now, Chaozhou and Shantou are equal in status.