The center of Huanggang Town is located in longitude 116°6′ east, latitude 23°4′ north, located in the South China Sea, Fujian and Guangdong junction, east of Zhaoan County, Fujian Province, west of Qiantong Town, south of the South China Sea, north of Lianrao Town, in Shantou and Xiamen between the two Special Economic Zones. The town has a total area of 96.6 square kilometers.
Huanggang is located in the lower alluvial plain of Huanggang River, forming five major agricultural production bases of grain, aquatic products, fruits, vegetables and livestock. 2012 total agricultural output value of the town was 602 million yuan, and the per capita income of farmers was 6,915 yuan.
The town's freshwater aquaculture area of 1,569 acres, marine aquaculture area of 17,800 acres, of which 114,200,000 acres of shrimp farming, net box fish 4410 grams, 7,120 acres of shellfish, the total amount of 26,200 tons of aquatic products. Fisheries output value of 260 million yuan, accounting for 46% of agricultural output value. Famous products include red crab, ark shell and eel in Fengzhou. It has won the "National Advanced Unit of Agricultural Technology Promotion", "Provincial Aquaculture Town of 10,000 tons" and "National Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Harvest Award". In 2012, Huanggang Township has built a provincial-level Taiwan business investment zone, two county-level industrial parks. There are 897 industrial enterprises in the town, of which 25 are above scale, and the total industrial output value of the town is 3.846 billion yuan. Product categories involved in agricultural products (food) processing, electronic components, food machinery, nearly 20 categories of more than 4,000 fancy varieties, products are exported to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia and Europe and the United States and other more than 40 countries and regions, the formation of an industry as the main body of the economic development pattern focused on export-oriented.
Huanggang town industrial leading industries have been included in Guangdong Province, industrial clusters upgrade demonstration area. The town has 9 famous trademarks, including 1 national well-known trademark (Jinzao); 11 famous brands, including 1 national famous brand (Lingtou monocotyledonous tea); 313 patented products; 7 national high-tech enterprises, 21 provincial private science and technology enterprises, 8 leading agricultural enterprises, 3 provincial intellectual property rights enterprises, 8 provincial and municipal engineering and technology research and development centers, the province's top 500 private enterprises in innovation In 2010, it was awarded as "Technological Innovation Specialized Town" by the province, and the category of aquatic electromechanical products was listed as "Demonstration Base of Specialty Products of Guangdong Province" by the province. "As of 2012, Huanggang Town has a total of 1,000 aquatic products. As of 2012, Huanggang Town has a new urban passenger terminal, there is an annual water supply of 9.3 million tons of water plant 2, there are 2 110 kV substation and connected to the provincial power grid, there is the county sewage treatment plant, and Huanggang River, a river promenade on both sides of the river landscape, Zhongshan Park, Riverside Park, Dai'ao Cultural Park and Shanglin Park and other recreational venues, the city function of the facility is complete.
As of the end of 2012, the town has four postal and telecommunications agencies, fixed-line telephone ownership of about 41,300, cell phone ownership of about 140,000, broadband access of about 30,000, the formation of program-controlled telephone, mobile phone-based, digital data network, public electronic mailboxes, the Internet and other means of communication and use of various means of telecommunication network. Xiao Mi Rao Ping Xiao Mi, originated from the "siu mai" in the north. In the past, in the north, there was a kind of snack with meat as the filling and flour as the skin, and most of these snacks were sold on the street by small stalls and vendors. Because of the cold weather in the north, so these stalls vendors in the sale of this snack, it will be placed in a small cage, burning hot stove fire constantly warm it, so this snack is named "siu mai". Later, "siu mai" this kind of snack was transplanted to the south, some places to the pronunciation to give it a name, there are a lot of similar pronunciation of different names, such as "burned rice", "Xiao rice", "millet" and so on, but in fact are derived from "siu mai" a snack. Bao Dou Cake Huanggang Town production of a cake called Bao Dou Cake, is the country's unique a cake species, octagonal square, such as gambling dice, commonly known as "bucket", because the cake is delicious, so the name "Bao Dou". Its materials, very delicate, meticulous, and pay attention to fresh eggs, lard and soybean oil mixed with refined flour for the cake crust, cake filling with mung bean bean paste (sand) with oil, sugar, diced winter melon, green onion beads oil and sesame oil.
The baking, is the first hand wrapped in the filling of the large balls pressed into a square, and then put it in turn on a large pan frying, frying one side of the other side of the hand after rolling baked until all six sides baked. Chaozhou big drums and gongs are the most popular musical performances in Rao Ping since a long time ago. It consists of a big drum (120 inches), 16 to 32 gongs, one each of Chinbo and Huangluo, two pairs of cymbals, two pairs of small cymbals and other small brass instruments as percussion, supplemented by suona orchestral pairs (regardless of the number), and dozens of people to form a spectacular orchestra. The performance is very exciting and popular among the Chaoshan people. The gongs and drums play a lot of songs such as "Feng Xiang". The movement and static are in harmony with the ups and downs of the drums. Every traditional festival such as Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, or celebration and New Year's Day, all villages and neighborhood committees will send out Chaozhou big gongs and drums with cultural and artistic make-up parades. There are dozens of Chaozhou big gongs and drums classes in each town and village in the county. In Huanggang, Qiantong, Zhangxi, Laoxi, Sanrao, Haishan, Fushan, Xinwei and other places where the development is better, almost every village has a class. Huanggang, Qian Dong, Wei Wei, Zhang Zhou, Zhang Xi and other towns have sent teams to participate in the province, city, county and even Hong Kong, Macao's major festivals or competitions, has won the competition second, third prize or excellence awards and other awards.
Every year before and after the Spring Festival, Huanggang town will hold a mass gongs and drums class parade, the scene is lively and spectacular. Huanggang also has a glorious revolutionary tradition. Guangxu 33 years (1907) on the 11th day of the 4th lunar month (May 22nd on the solar calendar), in Huanggang broke out in a shocking "Dingwei Revolution", known as the "Chaozhou Huanggang Dingwei Uprising". At that time, a provisional military government was established, and the flag created by Dr. Sun Yat-sen flew over Huanggang for the first time, which became a glorious page in the modern history of Rao Ping. In order to commemorate the Dingwei Revolution, in the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), the Guangdong Provincial Government allocated funds for the construction of Dingmu Road, Zhongshan Road and Dingwei Revolution Memorial Pavilion in Huanggang City.
In 1923, Huanggang founded the Model Primary School and the first "Morning Glory Girls' Primary School"; in 1925, the Youth League set up the first branch in Ruiguangtai, and then carried out the Workers' and Peasants' Movement; in 1925, the Huanggang Tinsel Foil Trade Union and Barber's Trade Union were established, and the membership of the Tinsel Trade Union alone amounted to more than 600. 1930, the Central Committee of Raoping County of the Republic of China (CCC) established the Ting Wei Revolutionary Pavilion in the city of Huanggang. In 1930, the Rao Ping County Committee set up an underground county committee and an underground transportation station in Jiao Wei. Huanggang was called "Fenggang" in ancient times. According to the Records of Rao Ping County, "Fenggang was renamed Huanggangbu in the early Ming Dynasty." "In the third year of Hongwu, the Huanggang Inspection Department was set up. Originally, the east side of the north side of Huanggang was the Gungling, the remaining vein of Fengling, hence the name Fenggang. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the court decided to set up an inspection division here to quell the scourge, when Rao Ping still belongs to Haiyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Haiyang County magistrate will send Liu Zongren to host this. Liu Zongren is the people of Hubei and Hunan, Jingchu sound, do not understand the Chaozhou language, his superiors called him to Fenggang, he misheard as "Huanggang", the submission is also written as "Huanggang", the text to the superiors, but also according to the approval. The name of Huanggang has been passed down to this day. Folk "Huanggang" also called the urn, according to the Qing Dynasty "Rao Ping County Records": Ming Jiajing Wushen year, because the Japanese invaders ravaged the residents, Yu Tingren and other submissions when the road to build a city to protect against the invaders, Chiu Chow Prefect Guo Chunzhen came to Huanggang, began to plan for the construction of the city. East Gate in today's Piggy Bank Street and Zhongshan Road intersection, north to the north of Cai Shi Shi Lane, folded west to Crab Cave, and then west to the west side of the small Jinshan. South until the creek side of the street, folded west to Taipingmen, slightly northwest along the south side of today's Yu Mou Road, westward, to the west side of the City God Temple will meet. In this way, the military defense of the city, but also like a big urn to the east flat, the city opened four doors, the east door is particularly wide, and the outer door arched into a round, rather like the mouth of the urn, from now on, near and far, we all know that Huanggang called the urn city.