Fangchenggang

The city was formerly called "Fangcheng Pan-Ethnicities Autonomous County" (December 25, 1978 – May 23, 1993).

Fangchenggang is a coastal city in southern Guangxi that borders Vietnam. Its area is 6,242.94 km2 (2,410.41 sq mi), 120 km2 (46 sq mi) of that urban.

Mandarin Chinese: 採茶戲; pinyin: Cǎichá Xì; Fangcheng Yue dialect: 採茶 [tɕʰɔj˩˧.tɕʰa˨˩], Fangcheng Hakka dialect: 採茶 [tɕʰɔj˨˩.tɕʰa˩˧] Tea-picking opera is the most popular traditional Chinese opera in Fangchenggang, in some grant occasions, celebrations and events such as fuels, traditionally the organizers of those will hire a tea-picking opera company to perform. Nowadays, tea-picking opera actors generally speak Fangcheng Yue dialect in performances, but not entirely, they always consciously or unconsciously make their pronunciation approach to Guangzhou Cantonese, the standard and authoritative dialect to Cantonese.

Fanchenggang, the last part of which "gang" means port is as its name implies an important port for Guangxi, and other than Beihai the only major Chinese port on the Tonkin Gulf. Besides port related industries there is substantial tourism, commercial fishing, hydropower, food and beverage production, and agriculture. Agricultural products include rice, corn, peanuts, oranges, and sugarcane. Other natural resources are coal, limestone, and spring water. The first phase of Fangchenggang Nuclear Power Plant, a nuclear power plant project is under construction here. Fangchenggang is served by rail from Qinzhou East and Nanning, respectively. Since the end of 2013, the city's Fangchenggang North Railway Station has high-speed (D-series) train service from Nanning. As of March 2019, there were two trains daily (T type) to Qinzhou and 9 trains (D type) daily to Nanning railway station.

Fangchenggang has a total population of 717,966. Ethnic groups and their corresponding numbers are Han 390,286 or 54.36%, Zhuang 287,207 or 40% Yao 26,749 or 3.73%, Jing 12,288 or 1.71% and all other minorities combined 1,436 or 0.02%. Population density is 116 people per km2 and population growth is 7.75% annually. Fangchenggang is a linguistically diverse city. The local languages include Qin-Lian Yue (a branch of Yue Chinese), Hakka, Zhuang, Yao, and Vietnamese, of which the most dominant language is Yue.