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Brief introduction of Baokou town
Baokou Town is located in the northeastern mountainous area of Huidong County, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, at the southern foot of Wuqinzhang and the upper reaches of Xizhijiang River. 1 Gaotan Town in the east, Xin 'an Town in the south, Mashan Town in the north and Andun Town in the west, 75 kilometers away from the county seat. Because the town house is located at the exit of Baoxi River, it is named Baokou. The highway connects Pingshan Town, Gaotan Town and Zijin, Wuhua, Haifeng and Lufeng counties. The total area of the town is 144.42 square kilometers, and the mountainous area is1970,000 mu, including 35,000 mu of mountainous areas below the slope of 25 degrees and 7 105 mu of cultivated land, including 665,438 mu of paddy fields and 937 mu of dry land. The total population of the town is 2 1 184, and it governs 12 administrative villages, 2 neighborhood committees and 33 villagers' groups. Baokou Town has a long history of revolutionary struggle, belongs to the old revolutionary base area, and is also one of the main hometown of overseas Chinese in Huizhou, with more than 8,200 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao. Overseas Chinese Chen Baizhen (1871-1948) founded a rubber plantation in Hoai, Thailand in the 1920s, and later set up hundreds of farmland. His career continued to develop and he became a famous Chinese entrepreneur and leader in Thailand.