Lufeng City is a county-level city

County-level city

A county-level city is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions....

 in the Shanwei

Shanwei

Shanwei is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong province of Southern China, People's Republic of China. It borders Jieyang to the east, Meizhou and Heyuan to the north, Huizhou to the west, and looks out to the South China Sea to the south...

 municipal region

Prefecture-level city

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, Guangdong

Guangdong

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, on the South China Sea

South China Sea

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 coast, east of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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Lufeng City is situated next to the county of Haifeng

Haifeng

Haifeng County is a county of Shanwei prefecture, southeastern Guangdong province, Southern china.The people there speak a Teochew dialect related to Hoklo and Hakka....

 (also under Shanwei but not yet upgraded); the area is sometimes conjointly referred to as Hailufeng

Hailufeng Soviet

The Hailufeng Soviet was the first Chinese Soviet territory, established in November 1927, by Peng Pai with Ye Ting's remnant troops from the Nanchang Uprising...

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Demography

It has a population of 1.7 million, the majority of which are of Hoklo

Hoklo people

The Hoklo people are Han Chinese people whose traditional Ancestral homes are in southern Fujian of South China...

 heritage; the rest are Hakka

Hakka people

The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....

. Therefore both Min Nan

Min Nan

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 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.

Administration

As of 2005 year's end, the city comprises three street committees (街道, jiedao

Subdistrict (China)

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) and 17 towns (镇, zhen)

Town (China)

When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese 鎮 . It is a fourth-level administrative unit, i.e...

. These are organised into 47 Block committees (居委会) and 280 Village committees (村委会)。

The city's executive, legislature and judiciary

Basic people's court

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 are seated in Donghai (东海), together with the CPC

Communist Party of China

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 subbranch and PSB

Public Security Bureau

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 substation (派出所, paichusuo).

Towns

• Jieshi (碣石)
• Qiaochong (桥冲)
• Bomei (博美)
• Jiazi (甲子)
• Jiadong (甲东)
• Jiaxi (甲西)
• Hudong (湖东)
• Beiyang (陂洋)
• Nantang (南塘)
• Bawan (八万)
• Tanxi (潭西)
• DaAn (大安)
• Jinxiang (金厢)
• Neihu (内湖)
• Xinan (西南)
• Shangying (上英)
• Hedong (河东)

Lufeng in the news

• The county was half of the short-lived Haifeng-Lufeng Soviet
  Hailufeng Soviet
  The Hailufeng Soviet was the first Chinese Soviet territory, established in November 1927, by Peng Pai with Ye Ting's remnant troops from the Nanchang Uprising...
  
  established 1927.
• The county-level city's Jieshi Town was the scene of serious inter-village violence in October 2009 and March 2010.
• A series of protests occurred in Wukan Village over allegations of official party members unfairly selling farmers' land for development. As of 23 September 2011 there have been three days of violence.