Shiqi District is an urban district at the centre of Zhongshan

Zhongshan

Zhongshan , also spelled Chungshan and historically known as Xiangshan or Siangshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province in southern China. Zhongshan, one of the few cities in China with an eponymous name, is named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen who was...

 City, Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

, China. It covers an area of 49.72 square kilometres (19.2 sq mi), and at the end of 2006, had a permanent population of 169,400 and 40,900 migrants. It was the location of the city's municipal government.

Local people in Shiqi mainly speak Shiqi dialect

Shiqi dialect

Shiqi dialect is a dialect of Yue Chinese. It is spoken by roughly 160,000 people in Zhongshan, Guangdong's Shiqi urban district. It differs slightly from Cantonese, mainly in its pronunciation and lexicon....

, a variety of the Cantonese language.

Officially, it is a subdistrict

Subdistrict (China)

The subdistrict , is one of the smallest political divisions of China. It is a form of township-level division which is typically part of a larger urban area, as opposed to a discrete town surrounded by rural areas, or a rural townships known as a xiang .In general, urban areas are divided into...

(石岐区街道).