Guangdong

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Guangdong (广东 Guǎngdōng) is province in South East China on the border with Hong Kong.

Table of contents

1 Understand

2 Cities

3 Other destinations

4 Understand

5 Talk

6 Get in

7 Get around

8 See

9 Do

10 Eat

11 Drink

12 Stay safe

13 Get out

Understand

Guangdong faces the South China Sea and surrounds Hong Kong. Long a provincial backwater, the province's economic fortunes changed dramatically when Deng Xiaoping instigated his reforms in 1978. Home to three of the country's Special Economic Zones and home to a burgeoning manufacturing industry, Guangdong is now the richest province in China.

Cities

Chaozhou
Chenghai
Dongguan
Foshan
Guangzhou — the capital
Huizou
Jiangmen
Kaiping
Nanhai
Panyu
Shantou
Shenzhen — across the border from Hong Kong
Shunde
Taishan
Xinhui
Xinjiao
Zhanjiang
Zhaoqing
Zhongshan
Zhuhai — across the border from Macau

Other destinations

Nan-hua Temple near the city of Shaoguan in northern Guangdong (three hours by train from Guangzhou). This beautiful temple was home to the sixth patriarch of Zen (ch:Chan), and as such is an important pilgrimage site for practioners of Zen Buddhism.