Guangdong
Guangdong Province is located in the extreme southern Chinese mainland and at the mouth of Pearl River Delta. It borders Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Region to its east and west separately. The total land area is 17.98 square kilometers, and the total area of 41.9 square kilometers on the sea.Climate
Guangdong belongs to east subtropical monsoon area. It is divided into middle subtropical, south subtropical tropical climate respectively from north to south, and the average temperature is about 19 β ~ 24 β. It is one of the most abundant areas of the resources of light, heat and water.
Capital: Guangzhou
It is the largest city of China and one of the five big national center cities. It is also the center of politics, economy, culture, science and education and the transportation hub of Guangdong province. In addition, it is the largest and oldest foreign trade port of southern China, one of the famous port cities in China, and the historical and cultural city.
Other major cities: Shenzhen
It is one of the deputy provincial cities and special economic zones. The comprehensive urban competitiveness of the city takes the first place among the mainland cities. It is also the second largest port of China.
Economy
It focuses on manufacturing and the third industry primarily. As the first largest economy province, Guangdong takes the leading place of economy for 10 consecutive years. It is listed in the first of many economic indicators, among which the average annual total import and export volume of the national accounts for about a quarter. In 2010, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the whole province reached 4.547283 trillion yuan.
Industry
Guangdong that owns the industrial base of Pearl River Delta is one of economic developed areas and also the area of the leading of opening-up. Adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau and close to Southeast Asia, Guangdong is in a superior geographical position. The geography is benefit for accepting the spread of industry of Hong Kong and Macau, accepting the international capital and technology, using trade channels of Hong Kong and Macao to transit export goods, and attending the wide range of international division of labor. The industrial base of Pearl River Delta on the original good economic basis, the industrial structure is further optimized, the advanced and heavy-duty trend is further strengthened and the innovation of auto industry is accelerated. With the fast development of high technology industry, it obtains six national and four provincial high and new technology industry development zone. The industry bases of the software, biological, information, national high technology are established. 6 national engineering research centers of the Chinese traditional medicine extraction separation process modernization, the biological technology of south sea, mobile communication and the others have been set up. 24 technology centers of national enterprises, such as huawei, zte and etc have also been established.
Transportation
The transport network that set Guangzhou as the center, of the sea, land, air traffic is convenient, is the transportation hub of southern China, and one of the area of the infrastructure is the most complete and convenient.
Guangdong has established the navigation routes with more than 1100 ports of more than130 countries and areas. A pattern of transportation has been set up by the five hubs of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou and Zhanjiang and the ports of branches or supply of Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan and the others.
There is the new Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport which is one of the three aviation hubs and other 7 big civil aviation airports in Guangdong. It is the area that with the highest density of airport distribution in China.
Exhibition
China import and export fair, also called Canton fair, which is held during the spring and autumn of every year in Guangzhou, was founded in 1957. It is the comprehensive international trade fair that owns the longest history, the highest level, the biggest scale, the most commodities, the most merchants, the most extensive distribution area, the best effect of the deal and the best prestige of China at present.
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