Driving in Chaoyang District, Shantou, Guangdong, China, the traffic here is a bit chaotic

Driving in Chaoyang District, Shantou, Guangdong, China, the traffic here is a bit chaotic #china#chaoshan#4k Chaoyang District (Teoyall), a thousand-year-old county in China. Located in the southeast of Guangdong Province, on the verge of the South China Sea, it is called Chaoyang because it is located in the north of the sea. Chaoyang County was established in Xianhe six years (331) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. From the Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, it belonged to Yi'an County and Chaozhou Prefecture. In April 1993, the county was established as a city (county-level), and in March 2003, the county-level Chaoyang City was abolished and divided into Chaoyang District and Chaonan District, which were placed under the jurisdiction of Shantou City. The area is 665.74 square kilometers. According to the seventh census data, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Chaoyang District was 1,654,276. Chaoyang has rich cultural accumulation and is known as "Zou Lu by the sea". There are more than 130 tourist attractions and cultural relics in the district, including 1 national key cultural relic protection unit (Wenguang Pagoda), 5 provincial cultural relics protection units (Lingshan Temple Great Dian Patriarch Tomb, Haimen "Ten Thousand Tombs", Haimen Lotus Flowers Peak Cliff Stone Carvings, Sixu Tang Stone Carvings, Dongyan Cliff Stone Carvings), Dongshan Scenic Area, Lianhua Peak Scenic Area, Dafeng Scenic Area, Lingshan Temple, Wenguang Pagoda and other places of interest are well-known. English singing and dancing, paper cutting and flute set music are the "three treasures" of Chaoyang culture and art, and are listed in the first batch of national and provincial "intangible cultural heritage" protection projects. There are traditional crafts such as wood carving, stone carving, tin carving, and incense manuscript end sculpture, as well as folk cultural activities such as Teochew opera, "Shuangzhong" culture, "Mazu" culture, "Dafeng" charity culture and Guiyu "Street Road Shed", and won the "Chinese Folk Culture". The title of "Hometown of Culture and Art". In October 2018, it won the "China Small and Medium Cities Green Paper 2018" 2018 National Top 100 New Urbanization Quality Districts. In 2021, Chaoyang District will achieve a regional GDP of 52.932 billion yuan, an increase of 5.8%.