Jiaoling County
Jiaoling County is a county in the northeast of Guangdong Province, China, bordering Fujian province to the north. Under the jurisdiction of Meizhou City, it was previously known as the Zhenping County.
Ethno-linguistic make-up
Jiaoling is noted for its large Hakka population.Notable people
- Qiu Fengjia or Chiu Feng-Chia was a Taiwanese Hakka−Chinese patriot, educator, and poet. He fought to defend Taiwan following the Qing dynasty's cession of Formosa and the Pescadores to Japan in April 1895 at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War. This led to the formation of the Republic of Formosa. Feng Chia University in Taichung, Taiwan is named in honor of him.
- was a Taiwanese Hakka-Chinese Control Yuan member in the Kuomintang-led Taiwanese government. He is the son of Chiu Feng-Chia.
- Xie Jinyuan was a Chinese nationalist military officer during second Sino-Japanese war.
- Shing-Tung Yau, a Chinese American mathematician and the William Caspar Graustein professor of mathematics at Harvard University.
Climate