10 Facts About Shunde

Shunde District, known as Shuntak, is a district of the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, located in the Pearl River Delta.

People of Daliang subdistrict of Shunde have a long history of consuming water buffalo cheese and milk products, which is why the township had begun promoting itself as the “Township of Milk and Honey”.

Shunde was a center for the development of the mulberry and sericulture industry in Guangdong province during the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty.

Shunde was a county-level city until 8 December 2002, when it became a district of Foshan prefecture-level city.

Shunde has direct jurisdiction over four subdistricts and six towns:.

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Unique as a district of any prefecture-level city in China, Shunde has been granted a degree of prefecture-level administrative autonomy over certain matters, notably economic development, independent of Foshan city, and has been answerable directly to the Guangdong Provincial government since 2009.

Shunde was approved as a pilot city for the comprehensive reform of Guangdong in 1993, and for taking the lead in accomplishing modernization in 1999.

From 2000 to 2003, Shunde was ranked first among China's top 100 counties for Basic Economic Competitiveness for four consecutive years .

China's southern city of Shunde joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as the city of gastronomy on Monday.

Shunde has long been widely regarded as the basis for exquisite Cantonese cuisine and the cradle of Cantonese cuisine chefs.