Shanwei (Chinese: 汕尾), or Swabue, or also commonly known as Hailufeng (Chinese: 海陆丰, portmanteau of Haifeng and Lufeng) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, 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. It lies approximately 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Shenzhen and the locals speak the Haifeng dialect.

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Shanwei 汕尾市 Swabue
Prefecture-level city
Shanwei
Location of Shanwei in Guangdong
Shanwei Location in China
Coordinates (Shanwei municipal government): 22°47′14″N 115°22′32″E
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
County-level divisions	4
Township divisions	53
Municipal seat	Chengqu
Government
Area
• Prefecture-level city	4,861.79 km2 (1,877.15 sq mi)
Elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Population  (2010)
• Prefecture-level city	2,935,469
• Density	600/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
• Urban	437,000
GDP[1]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 128.8 billion US$ 20.0 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 48,095 US$ 7,455
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code	660
ISO 3166 code	CN-GD-15
Licence plate prefixes	粤N
Major Nationalities	Han
Coastline (excluding islands)	302 km (188 mi)

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Shanwei
"Shanwei", as written in Chinese
Chinese	汕尾
Hanyu Pinyin	Shànwěi
Cantonese Yale	Saanméih
Postal	Swabue
Literal meaning	Tail or end of the fishing sandbar
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shànwěi Gwoyeu Romatzyh Shannwoei Wade–Giles Shan4-wei3 IPA [ʂân.wèɪ] Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Saanméih Jyutping Saan3mei5 IPA [saːn˧.mei˩˧] Southern Min Teochew Peng'im suan1 bhuê2

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Shanwei City was established in 1988. It was politically administered as part of Huizhoufu (惠州府) by the Ming and Qing empires, Shanwei it gained its prefectural and administrative independence from Huizhou during the Nationalist period.

The dominant ethnic population is Teochew who came as a result of the large decrease in population caused by warfare in the early Qing dynasty in what is now Shanwei.

The prefecture-level city of Shanwei administers 4 county-level divisions, including 1 district, 1 county-level city and 2 counties.

These are further divided into 53 township-level divisions, including 40 towns, 10 townships and 3 subdistricts.

Shanwei has a monsoon-influenced humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa), with short, mild to warm winters, and long, hot, humid summers. Winter begins sunny and dry but becomes progressively wetter and cloudier. Spring is generally overcast, while summer brings the heaviest rains of the year though is much sunnier; there are 10.3 days with 50 mm (1.97 in) or more rainfall. Autumn is sunny and dry. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 15.2 °C (59.4 °F) in January to 28.3 °C (82.9 °F) in July, and the annual mean is 22.60 °C (72.7 °F). The annual rainfall is around 1,891 mm (74 in), about two-thirds of which occurs from May to August. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 26% in March to 57% in October, the city receives 1,925 hours of bright sunshine annually.

• Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway.

On the night of December 6, 2005, a protest had broken out for land confiscated by the government. To calm the protest, armed police were sent to the village of Dongzhou after the aggressive villagers attacked the unarmed police.^[9][10] It was reported by the Chinese government that, three people were found dead after the protest. However, the number was doubted by media to be between 20 and 40.^[11]

In 2011, a conflict between the residents of the Wukan village (in Shanwei's Lufeng county-level city, on the Jieshi Bay some 30 km (19 mi) east of Shanwei city center) attracted world media's attention.

Generally used is Haklau Min which is similar to Hokkien and Teochew, belonging to the Southern Min division of Min Chinese. Haifeng, Lufeng and the urban area have basically the same accent. Most parts of the rural Luhe county formerly part of Lufeng use the rural Hakka Chinese language belonging to the Xinhui subdialect of the Yuetai dialect.

As Shanwei is near the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong, together with the impact of television programs from Hong Kong and population movements within Guangdong province, many local residents, especially the younger generation, have communication skills in Cantonese.