The city of shigee is located on the coast of the south china sea, in the south-west of guangdong province, on the back of the motherland, the south-west side. It has been recorded in history that maoming qin dynasty was divided into counties such as yue and the south china sea dynasty, while maoming county was set up. In 1959, the municipality of moe ming was established (in the chai division) and in 1983 it was established as a communal system, divided by the chai region. Shikang, moang and paik districts are now administered by maoming, as well as the city of gao, chu and sinyi. The total land area of the city is 11,459 km2 and the urban area is 67 km2 (2009). At the end of 2007, there were 7,1644,000 persons living in the municipal registry, of whom 1,264,500 were in municipal districts. In addition to the “ling nam fruit” in gaozhou, which is known for its “three-highest agriculture”, the city was named china's largest fruit production base by the centre for development studies of the state council in 1996. In 2000, comrade jiang zemin, then general secretary of the central committee of the chinese communist party (cpc), attended the “three-speak” educational mobilization of district leaders in gaozhou, during which he planted the “chinese red” branches, making them more popular。
The southern part of the city is sea-bound, with 220 km of retracing coastline and many natural ports, such as mizuo and boga. The port, which is an open port to the outside world, has now completed several tons of finished oil terminals and freight and container terminals, with the country's largest 250,000 tons of single-point oil berthing system, with an annual capacity of 14. 5 million tons. The port of boga is one of the three main fishing ports in the province, producing lobsters, shrimps, sea cucumbers, crabs, etc., with the city having the highest production of water products. The city of mau ming is the most populous municipality in guangdong province, ranking third in the 21 municipalities in the province, and the more economically developed agricultural municipalities in the province. The total agricultural output, total food production, total fruit production, total oil crop production and total pork production rank first in guangdong province。
