31 Facts About Guangzhou Guangdong

Guangzhou Guangdong has one of the most expensive real estate markets in China.

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

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

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

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

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Guangzhou Guangdong 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 Guangdong'sreport 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 Guangdong 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 Guangdong Railway waited until the completion of Wuhan's Yangtze River Bridge in 1957.

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

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

Guangzhou Guangdong is the main manufacturing hub of the Pearl River Delta, one of mainland China's leading commercial and manufacturing regions.

Guangzhou Guangdong is considered one of the most prosperous cities in China.

Guangzhou Guangdong is projected to be among the world top 10 largest cities in terms of nominal GDP in 2035 according to a study by Oxford Economics, and its nominal GDP per capita will reach above US$42,000 in 2030.

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

In May 2014, legally employed migrants in Guangzhou Guangdong 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 Guangdong 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 Guangdong still remain mainly agricultural and forest lands with very limited developed residential communities.

In 2009, it was reported that all 9,424 buses and 17,695 taxis in Guangzhou Guangdong would be operating on LPG-fuel by 2010 to promote clean energy for transport and improve the environment ahead of the 2010 Asian Games which were held in the city.

At present, Guangzhou Guangdong is the city that uses the most LPG-fueled vehicles in the world, and at the end of 2006,6,500 buses and 16,000 taxis were using LPG, taking up 85 percent of all buses and taxis.

Guangzhou Guangdong 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 Guangdong 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 Guangdong is housed at Guangzhou Guangdong'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 Guangdong maintains pressure on underground churches which avoid registration with government officials.

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

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Radio Guangzhou Guangdong has a 30-minute weekly English programs, Guangzhou Guangdong Today, which is broadcast globally through the World Radio Network.

Guangzhou Guangdong has some of the most notable Chinese-language newspapers and magazines in mainland China, most of which are published by three major newspaper groups in the city, the Guangzhou Guangdong Daily Press Group, Nanfang Press Corporation, and the Yangcheng Evening News Group.

The most successful is That's Guangzhou Guangdong, 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 Guangdong is a major centre of research and innovation in the Asia-Pacific with a high level of scientific research output, ranking 14th globally, 6th in the Asia-Pacific, 4th in China after and 1st in South Central China region.

Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangzhou Guangdong Province has the largest collection of ancient books in Southern China.

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