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Xiamen

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Country: China

Population:578,337

Time Zone:UTC+8

Less than six kilometres across Xiamen Bay, the Kinmen Islands are administered by Taiwan. Historically known as Amoy, Xiamen expanded from its original island across six districts and into a vast built-up area linked with nearby Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. It also became one of China’s first four special economic zones open to overseas investment and trade in the early 1980s.