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Shantou was a fishing village part of Tuojiang Du (鮀江都), Jieyang County during the Song dynasty. It came to be known as Xialing (廈嶺) during the Yuan dynasty. In 1563, Shantou became a part of Chenghai County in Chao Prefecture . As early as 1574, Shantou had been called Shashanping (沙汕坪).
The fishing village is located in the Lieyu bay of Shen'ao town. The waters here are wide and calm. It used to be an important ferry place of the ancient maritime Silk Road and ancient battlefield. Nowadays, it has become a seafood farm, where groupers, abalones, pearls, seaweed, shellfish and other valuable seafood are cultivated.
Queshi (simplified Chinese: 𬒈石; traditional Chinese: 礐石; pinyin: Quèshí; Chaozhou dialect: Kak-tsio̍h) is a town-level sub-district under the jurisdiction of Haojiang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China. According to the census in 2020, Queshe has a population of 47,119 and a total area of 38.50 km², with the ...
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Back in the early 1970s, this was an empty, beautiful stretch of coastline, save for a small fishing village. The boom here, though, was not organic, but actually part of a plan to create what the ...
Queshi Church was founded in 1863 by Rev. William Ashmore DD, a North American Baptist missionary who came to Shantou to spread the gospel in 1860. Its original site was in Big Queshi. At first, the church was a bungalow, and there were only a dozen believers, but, with the gradual increase of people coming here for worship, the chapel soon ran ...
The damage left behind in the fishing village of Horseshoe Beach is exposing a gulf between haves and have-nots as cash-strapped residents could be forced to leave the quaint, remote community ...
Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.