Xiamen, also known as Amoy is a coastal city in southeastern China. It is administered as a sub-provincial city under Fujian province in the People's Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders Quanzhou to the north and Zhangzhou to the south. Xiamen and the surrounding countryside are famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese. It became one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in the 1980s. Xiamen covers an area of 1 565 km2 with a total population of 2.5 million. It has been ranked as China's second 'most suitable city for living'.
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A postcard from Xiamen
Date of dispatch : 2010-12-06
Country: China
In my mailbox on December 28th, 2010