As of August 2019, Jieyang is a third-tier city.

Jieyang City, a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, is located in the southeastern part of Guangdong Province, where Jieyang County was founded in the 33rd year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (214 BC), and named after the Jieyang Ridge, one of the Five Ridges of Qinxu in the northwestern part of the county.

The city spans from 115°36ˊ to 116°37ˊ39ˊE longitude and from 22°53ˊ to 23°46ˊ27ˊN latitude. It is close to Xingmei in the north, the South China Sea in the south, Shantou and Chaozhou in the east, and Shanwei in the west. The land area is 5240.5 square kilometers. Inland rivers are mainly Rongjiang, Longjiang and Lianjiang. It is one of the cities in the Economic Zone on the West Coast of the Taiwan Strait.

Expanded Information:

Most of the third-tier cities are larger, with most of the non-agricultural population of the central urban area above 1 million people, and the urban infrastructure, business support facilities, and transportation facilities are relatively The city's infrastructure, commercial facilities and transportation facilities are relatively well-developed.

Residents have a certain amount of spending power, residents' living standards are generally relatively affluent, the city has a certain number of pillar industries, the industrial structure is relatively reasonable, and large-scale enterprises in certain industries have a certain degree of attraction, but the city's overall competitiveness still needs to be further improved.

Third-tier cities are generally more economically developed prefecture-level cities in the eastern region, provincial sub-centers, regional centers or economic powerhouses in the central region, and provincial capitals in the western region.

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