Getting to know Selangor & Federal Territory Kwong Siew Association
To fully understand our association, we have to look back at the Chinese history around the Qing dynasty and the pre-communist period to find out how the provinces and the municipality areas were structured.
During that period it was important to structure the country into different provinces. The provinces were further sub-divided into municipalities, counties and villages.
Kwong Tong Province with 5 main areas and 10 prefectures.
- Ling Tong Area : Teo Chew municipality; Fui Chew municipality
- Ling Nam Area : ShaoZhou municipality NamHoong municipality
- Ling Sai Area : Siew Heng municipality ; Ko Chow municipality
- Hai Bei Area : Lian Zhou municipality ; Lei Zhou municipality
- Hainan Area : Keng Chow municipality
Guang Zhou municipality and its 16 counties
Nanhai , Panyu, Dongguang, Shunde, Zhongshan, Xinhui, Bao An, Taishan,
Chonghua, Lungmen, Sanshui, Qingyuan, Huaxian, Zeng cheng, Fo gang, Cheqi.
Siew Heng municipality and its 16 counties
Gaoyao, Sihui: Guang Ning, Xin Din, Gao Ming, Kai Ping, En Ping, He Shan,
Feng Chuan, Yunfo, Kai Jian, Luo Ding, Deqing, Yu Nan, Yang Chun, Yang Jiang.
Note: Jia Ying municipality is located between Teo Chew and Fui Chew and is therefore regarded as Ling Tong Area. However, in 1978 the Head of Singapore South East Asia Research Centre, Professor Xu Yun Jiao did not mention about Jia Ying in his book titled “Kwong Siew municipality and its counties”
In another record, Kwong Tong province has a total of eleven (11 ) municipalities. Inside the provinces they excluded Nam Hoong municipality but included Jia Ying municipality and Lian Zhou municipality .As a result of development Guang Zhou municipality and Siew Heng municipality were merged to form Kwong Siew Association as it is known today.
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