29 Facts About Guangzhou

1.

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

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2.

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

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3.

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

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

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5.

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

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6.

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

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7.

Guangzhou 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.

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8.

Guangzhou'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.

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The Guangzhou 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.

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10.

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

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11.

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

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12.

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

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13.

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

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14.

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

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15.

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

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16.

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

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17.

In May 2014, legally employed migrants in Guangzhou 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.

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18.

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.

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19.

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 still remain mainly agricultural and forest lands with very limited developed residential communities.

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20.

Guangzhou 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.

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21.

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.

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22.

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

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23.

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.

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24.

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

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25.

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

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26.

Guangzhou 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 Daily Press Group, Nanfang Press Corporation, and the Yangcheng Evening News Group.

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

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28.

Guangzhou 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.

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29.

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

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