Xinhui District

Xinhui (Chinese: 新会), also known as Kuixiang (Chinese: 葵乡), is a city district in the City of Jiangmen in the province of Guangdong in southern China. Xinhui people are part of the greater Siyi people, in the Greater Siyi Region. Xinhui has a population of about 735,500, 98% of which are Han Chinese. It is located on the confluence of the Tan and Xi River. The local dialect is a variant of Cantonese. Xinhui's most famous produce is its chenpi, a kind of dried Mandarin orange peel. Xinhui is the ancestral home of Liang Qichao, Andy Lau, Hacken Lee, Amy Kwok, Gillian Chung, and Joey Yung.

Administration

Xinhui is administered by Jiangmen. In turn, Xinhui has jurisdiction over 10 towns, 239 village commissions, 25 community residents' committees and 4 agencies. Xinhui administrated Jiangmen Town before being placed under Jiangmen rule.

History

During the Neolithic period the area where Xinhui is situated was a bay at the mouth of the Pearl River; silt deposited by the Xi and Tan rivers resulted in it gradually becoming land. This is when humans settled in the area. In the last ten years, evidence of neolithic settlement such as communal shell mounds, and ceramic and pottery fragments have been discovered.