Brief introduction of gurao town

Gurao Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City is located in the northwest of Chaoyang District, at the southern foot of Xiaobei Mountain, at the junction of Chaoyang, Jieyang and Puning. The provincial highway Honghe passes through the town, and xiamen-shenzhen railway passes through the town, with Chaoyang Station. The connecting line from Jinzao to Gurao of Chaohui Expressway (Chaozhou-Huizhou section of Chaoguan Expressway) passes through the territory, with convenient transportation and superior geographical position. The town area is 7 1.8 square kilometers, the registered population is 1.5 million, and the floating population is about 1.4 million.

As one of the key overseas Chinese hometowns in eastern Guangdong, since the reform and opening up, the Gurao Town Committee and the town government have implemented the development strategy of "stabilizing the town through agriculture and forestry, enriching the town through industry, prospering the town through commerce and science and education" around the goal of building a modern industrial town, leading the broad masses of people to jointly build a beautiful home. Give full play to the advantages of overseas Chinese capital and people's strength in the hometown of overseas Chinese, vigorously develop the knitted underwear industry, and achieve fruitful results. Make the knitting underwear manufacturing industry rapidly develop into a pillar industry of Gu Rao. June 5438+October 2004 10, Gurao Town was named "Famous Knitted Underwear Town in China" by China Textile Industry Association and China Knitting Industry Association.