Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin.
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The execution of St Auguste Chapdelaine by local officials in Guangxi Province provoked the Second Opium War in 1858 and the legalization of foreign interference in the interior.
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Guangxi Province's was one of the few Kuomintang units free from serious Chinese Communist Party influence and was therefore employed by Chiang Kai-shek for the Shanghai massacre of 1927.
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The northwest portion of Guangxi Province includes part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the Jiuwan Mountains and the Fenghuang Mountains both run through the north, the Nanling Mountains form the region's north-east border, and the Yuecheng and Haiyang Mountains both branch from the Nanling Mountains.
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Guangxi Province is divided into fourteen prefecture-level divisions: all prefecture-level cities:.
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Guangxi Province has over 14 million Zhuangs, the largest minority ethnicity in China.
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Guangxi Province is one of China's key production centers for nonferrous metals.
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In recent years Guangxi Province's economy has languished behind that of its wealthy neighbor and twin, Guangdong.
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Currently, the proven reserves of bauxite in Guangxi are about 1 billion tons, making the province one of the country's biggest bauxite sources.
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