Jiangbei District, Meizhou
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Jiangbei is a district (qu, 区) in the Municipal region
Prefecture-level city
A prefectural level city , prefectural city or prefectural level municipality is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China, ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative...

 of Meizhou
Meizhou
-Administration:The municipal government, Intermediate Court and CPC and PSB bureaux are housed in the district of Jiangnan , on the right bank of Meijiang River.A second district of Meizhou is Jiangbei , on the left bank...

, 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...

. It is situated on the left bank of the Meijiang (梅江)
Meijiang River
The Mei River is a river in Meizhou prefecture in the eastern part of the Guangdong province in southern China and a tributary of the Han River. Major bridges over it include the Jianying Jinian Bridge....

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Jiangbei and its sister Jiangnan, on the right bank, were long the urban core of the famous Meixian County. Both Districts were carved from the county according to the new systems of territorial administration following Liberation
People's Republic of China
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The two districts are joined by many road and foot bridges. The syllable Jiang (江) in their names refers to the Meijiang River, which forms a great ox-bow
Meander
A meander in general is a bend in a sinuous watercourse. A meander is formed when the moving water in a stream erodes the outer banks and widens its valley. A stream of any volume may assume a meandering course, alternately eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the...

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