| Lufeng, Guangdong | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 陸豐市 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 陆丰市 | ||||||
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Lufeng City is a county-level city in the Shanwei municipal region, Guangdong, on the South China Sea coast, east of Hong Kong.
Lufeng City is situated next to the county of Haifeng (also under Shanwei but not yet upgraded); the area is sometimes conjointly referred to as Hailufeng.
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The county was half of the short-lived Haifeng-Lufeng Soviet established 1927.
The county-level city's Jieshi Town was the scene of serious inter-village violence in October 2009 and March 2010.[1]
In September 2011, a series of protests occurred in Wukan Village over allegations of official party members unfairly selling farmers' land for development.[2] Fresh protests broke out in December, when one of the village leaders died in the police custody. The police blocked the roads leading to the village.[3]
It has a population of 1.7 million,[4] the majority of which are of Hoklo heritage; the rest are Hakka. Therefore both Min Nan and Hakka dialects are spoken, in addition to Mandarin which is used in official and public life. The Hailufeng dialect, however, only refers to the Hokkien variant.
As of 2005 year's end, the city comprises three street committees (街道, jiedao) and 17 towns (镇, zhen). These are organised into 47 Block committees (居委会) and 280 Village committees (村委会)。[5]
The city's executive, legislature and judiciary are seated in Donghai (东海), together with the CPC subbranch and PSB substation (派出所, paichusuo).
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