Sanxiang ( zh, s=三乡镇, t=三鄉鎮, p=Sānxiāng Zhèn;
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...
: ''Sāamhēung Jan'') is a
town
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
situated at the southern periphery of the city of
Zhongshan
Zhongshan ( zh, c=中山 ), alternately romanized via Cantonese as Chungshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is n ...
,
Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
province. In
2020 census, the population of Sanxiang was 200,165.
The total area of the town is . Sanxiang is much closer to
Zhuhai
Zhuhai; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Jyūhói''; Chinese postal romanization, also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern ...
than central Zhongshan.
Economics
Primary industries
*Injection moulding, toolmaking, imaging supplies
Culture
Sanxiang is one of the less busy parts of Zhongshan.
It is a little known oasis of weekend homes for Hong Kong and Macau residents and a retirement haven for people from all over China.
Notable individuals
*
Zheng Junli
Zheng Junli (December 6, 1911 – April 23, 1969) was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema. His films ''The Spring River Flows East'' and ''Crows and Sparrows'' are widely ...
*
Zheng Guanying
Zheng Guanying or Cheng Kuan-ying (1842–1922 or '23) was a Chinese reformist active in the late Qing dynasty.[Sanxiang dialect
Sanxiang (in Cantonese ''Samheung'', in the language itself ''Sahiu'') is a Min variety of Southern Min Chinese mostly spoken in Sanxiang in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated wi ...]
References
External links
Sanxiang Township Government Website
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Zhongshan
Township-level divisions of Guangdong