GuangZhou

English name: Guangzhou / Canton
Local name: Guangzhou
Country: China
Continent: Asia
Area: 7400 km2
Population: 12 million
Airport Name: BAIYUN

    At today's city of Guangzhou became in 214 BC Panyu settlement. The settlement has grown to a city to be in 206 BC became the capital of the Kingdom of Nanyue. Panyu has been an important trading port. In 226 n.l. Guangdong Province was established and the city was called Panyu Guangzhou. In 1918 was appointed the official name of the city Guangzhou. Traders attracted the largest seaport in China since its inception more than 2,000 years ago. It was the first Chinese port in which kotvili Europeans - in 1514 here, the Portuguese fleet landed. The overcrowded city became a gateway traders. From 1957 here every spring and autumn come representatives known and lesser-known companies from around the world to participate in China's export trade fairs. Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province. It is situated on the Pearl River Cu-Jiang, the fifth longest water flow country. River linking the capital with Jihočínským the sea and the city delivers its unmistakable charm. Calling almost daily to the center of the city one thousand ferries, barges, tankers and smaller vessels, in particular, typically Chinese džunek (džunka is sailing with zobcovitým projections of the bow and once four-cornered canvas). There, however, neither the military and war ships. River Cu-Jiang, however, also serve to irrigate the surrounding fields, which issued a bumper harvest of rice, fruit and vegetables. With more than twelve million people and some 4000 factories in Guangzhou is also next to the port city of industry. The rise of modern production lines such as textiles and agricultural machines, buses, equipment and technological units. In the dock is complete maritime vessels and river, is also developed chemical production. Guangzhou is one of the richest of Chinese cities with new skyscrapers, slnicemi, two metro lines and a modern business center. Although increasingly promotes dynamic new period of life of local people definitely disappear or traditional values such as love for flowers, kantonské pleasure in classical opera.

     Guangzhou, although not by the number of monuments compared with Beijing, but here, you can see a lot of interesting and beautiful. Church of the six banana trees, Chen Clan Academy (museum of miniatures and bonsai), South China Botanic Garden (the largest botanical garden in the world), a memorial to Sun Yat-hay. On a hill above the lake is the temple with a 61.9 meter high Budhou. Interesting buildings in the city are the Olympic Stadium, Pearl River Tower. The other beautiful places are Yuexiu Park, which stretches over an area of 93 hectares in an area close to the top of the same exhibition in the north of the city. In the middle of the largest area dedicated kantonského rest, with numerous gardens, lakes, pavilions and sports grounds, is one of the oldest buildings throughout the city - pětipatrový red colored Pavilion view of the sea-Jun Lou chaj. The construction of the 1380 collection now conceals the Town Museum. Very popular is also carved into the granite sculpture of five goats, which is located near here. According to one old legend of the animals had to descend from heaven to Guangzhou five gods. Goats held in tlamách ears of rice, while heaven had rice messengers between residents and grant them eternal abundance of crops without the threat of famine. Finally, the gods have disappeared and their goats on land petrified. Goats are still in their Guangzhou and received his nickname "City of goats." In the north-west corner of the park is a garden of orchids Lan Pchu to find more than 10 000 flower-pots with 200 species of orchids. Near the entrance to the park's new Museum of Nan Yue, where they are exposed to the beautiful exhibits, found in the neighboring tomb of Yue kings, who ruled in southern China in the second century BC.

    Shenzhen and GuangZhou economic zone is part of Pearl River Delta, which has become a major industrial zone. Accounting for about one-third of China's trade. This is a manufacturing base for the manufacture of products such as textiles, clothing, toys, watches, electronics and many other products. Business here is focused primarily on export markets. Pearl River Delta is the world's largest trading zone with the fastest growing economy.

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