Fuqing

Fuqing (福清; Hók-chiăng in Mindong, Fú​qīng​ in Mandarin) is an industrial city within the administrative area of Fuzhou. It has a population of around half a million.

By bus
There are many buses from nearby Fuzhou to central Fuqing. The trip takes a bit over half an hour.

A few buses coming to Fuzhou from towns further south &mdash; Putian, Quanzhou or Xiamen &mdash; stop in Fuqing, but most just drop off passengers at a nearby highway exit where it is easy to grab a cab for the two km ride into town.

By train
It takes about 15 to 30 minutes to reach Fuqing by train from Fuzhou.

There are two railway stations in Fuqing:



Talk
The local Fuqing dialect, also commonly known in Southeast Asia as Hokchia, is part of the Mindong family like the Fuzhou dialect, but is nevertheless still distinct only partially mutually intelligible. However, most locals are bilingual in their local tongue and Mandarin.