Shaoguan

Shaoguan is a prefecture-level metropolis in northern Guangdong Province, China, bordering Hunan to the northwest and Jiangxi to the northeast. It is home to the mummified stays of the 6th Zen Buddhist patriarch Huineng. Its built-up or metro region made from Zhenjiang and Wujiang city districts changed into home to 688,229 inhabitants at the 2010 census, Qujiang district not being conurbated. Shaozhou turned into a prefecture underneath the Tang and Song. In 1589, Matteo Ricci relocated his mission residence – the first ever Jesuit venture in mainland China – to Shaoguan after a fallout with the authorities in Zhaoqing.

He remained in Shaoguan for a few years, in the end making the most of Shaoguan's area at the crucial north-south tour direction to set up connections with traveling dignitaries that allowed him to move north, to Nanchang, Nanjing, and Beijing. During World War II the city, then called Kukong, turned into the capital of Guangdong Province. In June 2009, Uyghurs and Han employees clashed at a toy factory in Shaoguan, which was followed via the Urumqi riots in July. At Shaoguan, the Wu River from the northwest and the Zhen River from the northeast be part of as much as create the North River which flows south to Guangzhou.