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6 unusual facts about Guandong


Chuang Guandong

Inner Manchuria, also called Guandong (literally, "east of the pass" referring to Shanhai Pass at the eastern end of the Great Wall of China) or Guānwài (關外; "outside of the pass"), used to be a land of sparse population, inhabited mainly by the Tungusic peoples.

Guandong

Kwantung Leased Territory, a small section of the above region controlled by Russia and, then, Japan from 1898 to 1945

Lushun Museum

April, 1917 Guandong Capital's Manchurian & Mongolian Products Exhibition Hall

Manchuria

The name Guandong later came to be used more narrowly for the area of the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Port of Huizhou

The Port of Huizhou is a natural coastal port located on Huizhou, Guandong, People's Republic of China, immediately east of Shenzhen and Hong Kong It opens into the Daya Bay.

Township and Village Enterprises

More than half of TVE production in the 1980s occurred in Guandong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong provinces, all of which border the Pacific Ocean.


GAC Fiat

The Changsha assembly plant was officially opened on 28 June 2012, in a ceremony attended by Fiat chief executive Sergio Marchionne and representatives of Hunan and Guandong provinces.

Geology of Fujian

The Zhejiang-Fujian-Guandong volcanic rocks are mostly rhyolite and dacite rich in potassium, from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous.


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