Fuqing
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Fuqing (Chinese: 福清; pinyin: Fúqīng; Wade-Giles: Fu2-ch'ing1; Foochow Romanized: Hók-chiăng; also romanized as Hokchia) is a county-level city of Fuzhou in Fujian, China. It is located in the eastern part of the province, borders the East China Sea, just southeast of Fuzhou and 45 kilometers from Changle International Airport of Fuzhou. Fuqing city has geographical advantage, for its location between Fuzhou and Xiamen, the two largest cities in Fujian Province. This city nowadays boost as industrial area, support by good infrastructure including Fuzhou-Quanzhou Highway and port that faces Taiwan Straits. Like other Fujian cities, Fuqing famous as an ancestral homeland of overseas Chinese.
Fuqing, as well as much of Fujian, is known for the large number of its people who travel overseas to find work. The most common destination is Japan, with others going to Australia, Canada, and the United States. Fuqing has its own dialect which is closely related to the Fuzhou dialect, although the two are not completely mutually intelligible. Most of its people can also speak Mandarin, which is used in schools, businesses, and to communicate with others from different parts of the province. Fuqing county has approximately 1.3 million inhabitants.
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Coordinates: 25°43′N 119°23′E / 25.717°N 119.383°E
Fuqing is also famous for the "Fuqing guangbin", which is a special kind of pan cake. Peole in Fuqing would consider the"Guangbin" as a symbol of the city.
