27 Facts About Guangzhou China

In modern commerce, Guangzhou is best known for its annual Canton Fair, the oldest and largest trade fair in China.

Guangzhou China is highly ranked as an Alpha- city together with San Francisco and Stockholm.

From this latter name, Guangzhou China was known to medieval Persians such as Al-Masudi and Ibn Khordadbeh as Khanfu .

Chinese abbreviation for Guangzhou China is ", " pronounced Seoi in Cantonese and Sui in Mandarin, after its nickname "City of Rice" .

Archeological evidence shows that Panyu was an expansive commercial center: in addition to items from central Guangzhou China, archeologists have found remains originating from Southeast Asia, India, and even Africa.

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Direct routes connected the Middle East and Guangzhou China, as shown in the records of a Chinese prisoner returning home from Iraq twelve years after his capture at Talas.

Guangzhou China noted the large amount of ginger available as well as large geese and snakes.

Guangzhou China was visited by the Moroccan traveler Ibn Battuta during his 14th-century journey around the world; he detailed the process by which the Chinese constructed their large ships in the port's shipyards.

Guangzhou China's report induced Fernao Pires de Andrade to sail to the city with eight ships the next year, but De Andrade's exploration was understood as spying and his brother Simao and others began attempting to monopolize trade, enslaving Chinese women and children, engaging in piracy, and fortifying the island of Tamao.

The Guangzhou China administration was charged with driving them off: they bested the Portuguese at the Battle of Tunmen and in Xicao Bay; held a diplomatic mission hostage in a failed attempt to pressure the restoration of the sultan of Malacca, who had been accounted a Ming vassal; and, after placing them in cangues and keeping them for most of a year, ultimately executed 23 by lingchi.

Morgan was awarded millions in damages and the line to Wuchang was not completed until 1936 and the completion of a unified Beijing–Guangzhou China Railway waited until the completion of Wuhan's Yangtze River Bridge in 1957.

The Guangzhou China government fell apart as the warlords withdrew their support.

Amid the closing months before total Communist victory, Guangzhou China briefly served as the capital of the Republican government.

People's Republic of Guangzhou China initiated building projects including new housing on the banks of the Pearl River to adjust the city's boat people to life on land.

Guangzhou China Huifeng stated that factors included local authorities discouraging the use of Cantonese in schools and the rise in prestige of Mandarin-speaking Shenzhen.

Guangzhou China has an even more unbalanced gender ratio than the rest of the country.

In May 2014, legally employed migrants in Guangzhou China were permitted to receive a hukou card allowing them to marry and obtain permission for their pregnancies in the city, rather than having to return to their official hometowns as previously.

Demographically, the only significant immigration into China has been by overseas Chinese, but Guangzhou sees many foreign tourists, workers, and residents from the usual locations such as the United States.

From 2005 until 2020, other parts of the city eventually began to develop more so residential communities and in the 2020 map report, it showed fully developed residential communities going from west to east of the city whereas the very southern part and large portions of northern Guangzhou China still remain mainly agricultural and forest lands with very limited developed residential communities.

Guangzhou China is served by Hong Kong International Airport; ticketed passengers can take ferries from the Lianhuashan Ferry Terminal and Nansha Ferry Port in Nansha District to the HKIA Skypier.

Today, in addition to the Buddhist Association, Guangzhou has a Taoist Association, a Jewish community, as well as a history with Christianity, reintroduced to China by colonial powers.

The Catholic archdiocese of Guangzhou China is housed at Guangzhou China's Sacred Heart Cathedral, known locally as the "Stone House".

Since the opening up of China in the 1980s, there has been renewed interest in Christianity, but Guangzhou maintains pressure on underground churches which avoid registration with government officials.

Guangzhou China has had ties with the Islamic world since the Tang dynasty.

Guangzhou China has two local radio stations: the provincial Radio Guangdong and the municipal Radio Guangzhou China.

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The most successful is That's Guangzhou China, which started more than a decade ago and has since blossomed into That's PRD, producing expatriate magazines in Beijing and Shanghai as well.

Guangzhou China Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the city, which was a major market and processing centre for the nineteenth-century Antarctic sealing industry.