Jiangmen

Jiangmen (江门 Jiāngmén) is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, just west of Zhuhai.

Districts
Central Jiangmen consists of three urban districts: Furthermore, Jiangmen has jurisdiction over four county-level cities:
 * (蓬江区)
 * (江海区)
 * (新会区)
 * (台山) - small and beautiful city, ancestral home of many American Chinese, 140 km west of Hong Kong
 * (开平) - mostly countryside scattered with early 20th-century watchtowers
 * (恩平)
 * (鹤山)

Understand
Taishan, Kaiping, Enping, Xinhui, and Heshan are together known as Siyi/Sze Yup (四邑 Sìyì) or Wuyi (五邑 Wǔyì), the "four (or five) counties" that produced many emigrants who journeyed overseas to seek their fortunes in the late 1800s. Some returned, bringing newfound wealth and exotic ideas; others settled permanently, establishing some of the world's most important overseas Chinese communities. Many villages in the area had residents go off and settle abroad, and many overseas Chinese today trace their ancestry to Sze Yup, particularly in Southern Myanmar and North America.

Visiting Jiangmen, you can find monuments and museums celebrating this unique heritage, as well as beautiful residences, courtyards, and hundreds of watchtowers built with money earned overseas. Kaiping has a bunch of these well-preserved historic sites, and Taishan has its share too.

By bus
There are many bus stations.

There are buses from the nearby towns Zhuhai and Zhongshan or provincial capital Guangzhou. CKS  runs a daily ferry connection with Macau.

To travel to Jiangmen from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, you can take the Intercity Bus. The first bus leaves at 08:50.

By train
There are railway stations in Central Jiangmen, Kaiping, Taishan, and Enping, with direct service to Guangzhou, Maoming, Zhanjiang, and Zhuhai. Service from Jiangmen to points west is less frequent than between Guangzhou and Jiangmen.


 * Trains run at top speeds of 200–240 km/h (125-150 mph). 20% of the trains are express trains that skip stations for even faster transit time.
 * At the Guangzhou, Shunde, Foshan, Zhongshan and Zhuhai stations, 80% of the trains run north-south but 20% branch off to the east-west line. You also have the option of taking a north-south line and transferring at Xiaolan (Zhongshan) station.
 * From Macau, the Zhuhai station is 500 m west of the Gongbei/Portas do Cerco border crossing.

As of 2018, there is one direct train from Beijing (D921, Beijing-Guangzhou-Zhanjiang) that stops at Xinhui station in Jiangmen. It is one of the comparatively few overnight high-speed trains with sleeping berths that operate in China. It leaves Beijing at 20:30 in the evening, crosses the entire country overnight, and stops at Xinhui at 07:33 in the morning. A second-class seat (二等座) is ¥754; a sleeping berth (动卧) is ¥1430.

Drink
Pu'er Tea（普洱茶）A type of fermented tea, with raw tea displaying a brick-red color and ripe  tea presenting a deep reddish-brown color.

Chaozhou Gongfu Tea（潮汕功夫茶）Chaozhou Gongfu Tea is the traditional tea culture of the Chaoshan region, renowned for its exquisite brewing techniques and tea utensils.

White Tea（白茶）A lightly fermented tea made from tea buds and leaves.

Sweet Soup（糖水）A sweet soup primarily composed of sugar, with added ingredients such as red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, etc., simmered to perfection.

Go next

 * Guangzhou
 * Zhongshan
 * Zhuhai