Konu: Guangzhou

"Guangzhou"

Guangzhou, the South Gate of China, is a prosperous metropolis full of vigor. Guangzhou is the capital city of Guangdong, and the center of its political, economic, scientific, educational and cultural life. Sui (Ears of Rice) is short for Guangzhou and the City of Ram (Yang Cheng) is also an alias of Guangzhou. The kapok is the city flower and the kapok tree is the city tree of Guangzhou.
Guangzhou is located in the middle south of Guangdong Province, north of the Pearl River Delta. It lies close to the South China Sea, Hong Kong, and Macau. Zhujiang (The Pearl River), the third largest river of China, runs through Guangzhou and is navigable to the South China Sea. Situated in such an excellent geographical region, Guangzhou is called China's South Gate.
Covering an area of 7434.4 square kilometers (2870 square miles), Guangzhou is home to more than 11 million people, including a 3.7 million transitory population. With the opening of China to the outside world, a large number of people from other regions of China swarmed into Guangzhou, one of the first 'open' cities in China. This has accelerated its economic development.
Guangzhou is a famous historical city. In ancient days, Guangzhou was the capital city for three Chinese dynasties: the Nan Yue (South Yue), the Nan Han (South Han) and the Nanming (South Ming). Thus it was put in the list of the 24 most famous historical cultural cities and became a tourist destination. You can not understand most Chinese cities deeply until you know their history. This is true of Guangzhou. Many historic sights: the Western Han Nanyue King's Tomb Museum, the Zhenhai Tower and the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall tell us the 2,000-year history of Guangzhou.


Today, Guangzhou retains its ancient customs, but is also a large city full of vigor and current fashions. You can find something worth taking home in Shangxia Jiu Lu, Beijing Lu and Di Shi Fu Lu.
Trying Yue Cai (Cantonese Cuisine), one of eight Chinese famous cuisines, is definitely a must in Guangzhou! Eat delicious food with ingredients you have never heard of.
Hotel facilities and service in Guangzhou are fine. A word of warning: Do make a reservation beforehand if you decide to visit Guangzhou during the Canton fair, For visitors, especially those plan to attend the Canton Fair, transportation in Guangzhou is more and more convenient. You can choose plane, train, ship or bus.
Guangzhou is famous as a hometown for overseas Chinese. It boasts the largest population of overseas Chinese people. These overseas Chinese do a great deal of good for Guangzhou: opening international markets, bridging Guangzhou and the rest of the world, and establishing many schools, hospitals, nurseries, kindergartens and rest homes in Guangzhou.

"Guangzhou"

Guangzhou is on the coast of the South China Sea and 182 kilometers away from Hong Kong, it is China's largest and most prosperous city in the south,an important seaport for foreign trade and a famous historical and cultural city over 2,000 years old. It hosts annual spring and autumn exports trade fairs. It has convenient land, water and air transport. International air routes link it to Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Sidney and Melbourne. Daily flights, trains, ships and hovercraft go beween the city and Hong Kong. Guangzhou is located within the Tropic of Cancer and has no real winter. It grows three crops of rice a year and plenty of fruits. Flowers are in bloossm all the year round, so Guangzhou is called "the City of Flowers." Visitors enjoy the beautiful sub-tropical scenery. Its spots of interest include Yuexiu Park, Guangxiao Temple, the Octagonal Flower pagoda in the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, the Dagoba at Huaishen Temple, and the Mount BaiYun Scenic Area in the city, and Zhaoqing Seven-Star Rock, Foshan Ancestral Temple and Conghua Hot Spring outside the city.

Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the four oldest colleges of its kind in China and is directly governed by the State Administration of TCM. The university is located at Sanyuanli, near the foot of Baiyun mountain in northern Guangzhou. As traditional Chinese medicine gains importance throughout the world, so does Guangzhou University of TCM as a base for academic exchange and research.

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Guangzhou Asian Games IPR Takes Effect



Source: China Daily

The Guangzhou Regulations on the IPR Protection for the Asian Games took effect beginning Jan. 11. The regulations define that any act of using the IPRs for commercial purpose without authorization constitutes wrongdoing.

The regulations contain 20 articles, which define IPRs of the Asian Games and acts infringing the rights, identify missions of administrative agencies. The regulations will establish an inter-agency coordination system and a first called, first responsible mechanism, prescribe avenue for settling disputes, enforcement actions and legal consequences of infringement.

Air France Halts Cargo Service to Guangzhou




Source: Bloomberg

Air France-KLM, Europe’s largest airline, suspended cargo services to Guangzhou on Jan. 1 because of sluggish volumes, the South China Morning Post said, citing an unidentified person.

The services, to the U.S. and Europe, were also halted because Air France needed to redeploy its fleet on a delay in the delivery of new Boeing 777 freighters, the Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper reported.

The airline may resume service to Guangzhou in the summer, economic conditions allowing, and continues its nine freighter flights per week to Hong Kong, the Post said. Cargo volumes fell 23 percent in November from a year earlier, it said.

Guangzhou Expected to Add Four Man-made Lakes




Source: english.gz.gov.cn

Luhu Lake, a man-made lake in Guangzhou.

In the coming several years, Guangzhou is expected to add four large man-made lakes. Combined with the Baiyun Lake which is now under construction, five lakes embracing Guangzhou will come into being. According to officials from local water affairs authorities at both municipal and district (county-level cities), Guangzhou is now about to build four man-made lakes in Haizhu, Huangpu, Conghua and Zengcheng. These lakes will have the functions of floodwater storage, flood control, water diversion and replenishment so as to further improve the water ecology around the urban area and achieve a human-water harmony.

It is disclosed that according to Guangzhou's water system planning, Guangzhou will also build a super-large man-made lake on the north of Baiyun Lake and by Liuxihe River, twice as large as Baiyun Lake, to optimize further the water quality of the water system in the north of the urban area and the water environment of riverlets.