22 Facts About Guangdong Province

Province of Guangdong surpassed Henan and Shandong to become the most populous province in China in January 2005, registering 79.

Since 1989, Guangdong Province has topped the total GDP rankings among all provincial-level divisions, with Jiangsu and Shandong second and third in rank.

Guangdong Province has benefited from its proximity to the financial hub of Hong Kong, which it borders to the south.

Guangdong Province was the birthplace of the father of modern China and the founder of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen where he later declared a military government in the Warlord Era.

The Han dynasty administered Guangdong, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi Province; southernmost Jiaozhi Province was used as a gateway for traders from the west—as far away as the Roman Empire.

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Under the Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period, Guangdong was made its own province, the Guang Province, in 226 CE.

Together with Guangxi, Guangdong Province was made part of Lingnan Circuit, or Mountain-South Circuit, in 627 during the Tang dynasty.

Since the 16th century, Guangdong Province has had extensive trade links with the rest of the world.

In 1952, a small section of Guangdong Province's coastline was given to Guangxi, giving it access to the sea.

The economic growth of Guangdong province owes much to the low-value-added manufacturing which characterized the province's economy following Deng Xiaoping's reforms.

Guangdong Province is not only China's largest exporter of goods, it is the country's largest importer as well.

Guangdong Province is one of the richest in the nation, with the most billionaires in mainland China, the highest GDP among all the provinces, although wage growth has only recently begun to rise due to a large influx of migrant workers from neighboring provinces.

The affluence of Guangdong Province remains very concentrated near the Pearl River Delta.

Guangdong Province is the ancestral home of large numbers of overseas Chinese.

Guangdong Province is governed by a dual-party system like the rest of China.

Hong Kong and Macau, while historically parts of Guangdong Province before becoming colonies of the United Kingdom and Portugal, respectively, are special administrative regions .

Hakka people live in large areas of Guangdong Province, including Huizhou, Meizhou, Shenzhen, Heyuan, Shaoguan and other areas.

Much of the Eastern part of Guangdong Province is populated by the Hakka people except for the Chaozhou and Hailufeng area.

Zhanjiang in southern Guangdong Province is dominated by the Leizhou dialect, a variety of Minnan; Cantonese and Hakka are spoken there.

Guangdong Province is notable for being the birthplace of many famous Xiangqi grandmasters such as Lu Qin, Yang Guanli, Cai Furu and Xu Yinchuan.

Guangdong Province is the seat of 14 adult higher education institutions.

Guangdong Province is divided into twenty-one prefecture-level divisions: all prefecture-level cities :.