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Meizhou Island is entirely under Meizhou Township (镇) that is divided into 11 villages:
Meizhou Township is a sub-organization (派出机构) of Putian Municipality. In the northern part of the mouth of Meizhou Bay, Meizhou Island is 14.35 square kilometre|km?, 9.6 km north-south, and 1.3 km east-west. The beach is 20-km. In June 1988, Meizhou became an open provincial tourism economic region (旅游经济区). And in April 1992, Taiwanese were allowed to have landing Visa (document)|visas on the island, and in October of the same year, it became a national tourism-vacation region (国家旅游度假区). In October 1999, the island is formally opened to foreign nations. Annually, 100,000 Taiwanese pilgrims come to Meizhou to see the place where Matsu once lived. Some pilgrims make the visit every year. A celebration takes place in October, with 1,200 attending. The Heavenly Empress Palace-Meizhou Ancestral Temple (天后宮湄洲祖廟) started as a small shrine soon after Matsu's death in the 10th century. It is now renovated and greatly enlarged to accommodate the pilgrims.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Meizhou Island".
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