History of Shanwei

Shanwei City was renamed established in 1988. It was politically administered as part of Huizhoufu 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 Hoklo who came as a result of the large decrease in population caused by warfare in the early Qing dynasty in what is now Shanwei.

Source From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanwei#History