Official Website of Taishan

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www.tsinfo.com.cn/EN/index.htm



Taishan is located in the southwest part of Pearl River Delta area. Covering an area of 3,286 square kilometers and having 587 kilometers coastline, it administrates 20 Towns, 2 provincial-level experimental zones, 1 overseas Chinese farm and over 90 islands belonging to the Chuanshan Islands. Of which, Shangchuan Island and Xiachuan Island are Town-level islands. Taishan has a population of 1 million, while 1.3 million overseas Taishanese distributing in 91 countries and regions. Therefore, Taishan is reputed to be China's first hometown for overseas Chinese and enjoys the fame of Two Taishans.
Bordering Hong Kong and Macau, Taishan is only 48 nautical miles and 87 nautical miles away from Macau and Hong Kong, respectively. Thanks to the national policy of opening up to the outside world and domestic reform, as well as unique local geographic conditions and natural resources, Taishan has made dramatic progress in many areas, particularly in infrastructure construction.

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www.taishan.com/english/families/index.htm

Taishan has a total of 14 different ethnic groups. The Han or Chinese is the most predominant ethnic group comprising of more than 99.95% of Taishan's population. The rest are small minority ethnic groups which include Zhuangs, Mongols, Huis, Tibetans, Miaos, Jings, Koreans, Bais, Lis, Dongs, Yaos, and Xibes.
There is a total of about 159 different Taishan family surnames. These surnames include many of the famous Chinese names such as Chen (Chan, Chin), Huang (Wong), Li (Lee), Liu (Lau), Tang (Tong), Wu (Ng), Guo (Kwok), Liang (Leung), etc. A single Chinese surname could be represented by more than one English surname because of the different methods people have used to translate their Chinese name. Thus, two people with different English surnames may be related if their Chinese surnames are the same.

The following list below is a compilation of work done by members of the respective families. The orthodox Chinese character is shown along with the English surname as translated using standard Mandarin pinyin notation. Other possible English forms of the same surname are also shown in parenthesis; the most popular form is the Cantonese version which is perhaps popularly more known than the Mandarin version among overseas Chinese