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30 unusual facts about Guangdong


An Phú District

Chinese traders came along the Mekong and Hau River from Chaozhou and Guangdong and elsewhere along the route to Phnom Penh.

Andrea Pasinetti

In the 2012-2013 school year, more than 200 Teach For China Fellows served in 55 schools in China's Yunnan and Guangdong provinces, reaching more than 30,000 students.

Bone-mouth

Dali is the original place of the traditional bone-mouth Shar-Pei.

Bufo cryptotympanicus

Known commonly as the earless toad, it is found in southern China (Guangxi and Guangdong provinces) and northern Vietnam (on/near Mount Fansipan).

Chai Lee

Chai Lee is an actress, born in Canton, China.

Eat a Bowl of Tea

The text depicts the close friendship between Wah Gay and Lee Gong (both Chinese immigrants with wives back in Guangdong (Canton)), and a conversation concerning their unmarried children ensues.

Francisco Varo

On January 31, 1687, he was elected Vicar Apostolic of the provinces of Guangdong, Yunnan, and Guangxi.

Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907

The non-public supplement of the agreement defined these areas as Manchuria, Mongolia and the province of Fukien for Japan, and the provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong for France.

Guo Lanying

In 1986 she established the Guo Lanying Art School in Guangdong.

Iron Age China

According to the mortuary evidence suggests that the initial use of iron in Guangdong belongs to the mid to late Warring States period (from about 350 BC).

Isaac Hinckley

Hinckley was born on Oct. 28, 1815, in Hingham, Massachusetts, a son of Isaac Hinckley (1793-1818), who had gone to sea at a young age and rose to command three ships: the brig Reaper (1809-10), which he sailed on a trading voyage from Boston to Aden and Calcutta; the ship Tartar (1812-13), on another voyage to Calcutta; and finally the ship Canton (1815-18) for three voyages from Boston to Canton, China.

James Lam

Born in Guangdong, China in 1961, Lam moved to the United States with his family in 1971.

Jian Youwen

Jian was born in Guangdong in 1896, the son of Jian Yinchu and Jian Wenliu, and educated at Lingnan School, where he was baptized as a Christian.

Judy Chu

Judy Chu is the second of four children of Judson and May Chu, who were married in 1948 in their ancestral home of Xinhui, Jiangmen, Guangdong.

Lee Sing-man

He was born in 1944 in Guangdong (but his date of birth is printed as 1946 in his HKID card).

Li Zongren

Most of Lin Hu's officers were former bandits and militia recruited earlier by Lin from the Zhuang areas of Guangdong.

In 1921 Li Zongren accompanied Lin Hu and Lu Rongting in Lu's second invasion of Guangdong, attacking forces under the command of Chen Jiongming.

Lu, the governor of Guangxi, was a former bandit who had ambitions to expand into neighboring provinces, especially Guangdong.

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

Lindernia montana

Lindernia montana is a plant native to the southern part of China such as Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan provinces.

Lu Hao-tung

Born in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Lu Hao-tung had been a playmate and close friend of Sun Yat-sen since they were classmates at the Lu-shi Ancestral Temple (陸氏祖祠) school.

Ruan Yuan

He was the governor, the most important imperial official, of Guangdong province during the critical years 1817–1826, just before the First Opium War with Britain.

Samuel Wells Williams

On the June 15, 1833, and still in his twenties, he sailed for China to take charge of the printing press of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at Guangdong, China.

Shapu Railway Station

Shapu (formerly Baishi) is a railway station in the village of Shapu in Zengcheng, Guangdong, China.

Steven W. Mosher

At the time he was married to a woman from Guangdong province, and for several months between 1979 and 1980 lived in rural Guangdong.

Weitao Yang

Weitao Yang (born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, March 31, 1961) is a Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry in Duke University.

Yang Ning

Yang Ning grew up into a football family and quickly rose through the ranks before he graduated into the senior team of Guangdong within the 1978 Chinese league season.

Yang Ning (Chinese 杨宁 born in 1962) is a former Chinese football Goalkeeper who played for Guangdong and the Chinese national team who he represented in the 1984 Asian Cup.

Yeung Hok-ling

Yeung Hok-ling (楊鶴齡) (1868 - 29 August 1934), courtesy name Lai-ha (禮遐), was a Chinese revolutionary from Cuiheng Village, Heungshan, Kwangtung.

Yiaway Yeh

Of Hakka descent, Yeh's grandfather was born in Mei County, Guangdong, China in 1909 and moved to Taiwan in 1949 following the Chinese Civil War.


2010 Asian Para Games opening ceremony

Huang Huahua, the Executive President of the GAPGOC and Governor of Guangdong Province

Bao'an County

In Qing Dynasty, the Xin'an County, to which the mainland opposite to the Island of Hong Kong belongs, was one of the fourteen districts of the department of Guangdong.

Battle of Sanhe

In August, 1858, the Taiping Army took Luzhou (庐州), modern day Anhui, and the Imperial governor of Hunan-Guangdong Guam Wing (官文) ordered Li Xubin to counter attack by taking the cities and towns of Tongcheng, Shucheng, and Taihu (太湖).

Battle of Yamen

In 1278 Wen Tianxiang, who had fought against the Yuan in Guangdong and Jiangxi, was captured by Wang Weiyi in Haifeng County, eliminating all the Song land forces nearby.

Bendi

Punti, the Cantonese-speaking populations of Guangdong province in southern China

Blue Sky with a White Sun

Lu Hao-tung's "Blue Sky with a White Sun" flag was used in the provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou, while the "18-Star Flag", "Five-Colored Flag", and other designs were used elsewhere.

Campaign to Suppress Bandits in Central and Southern China

Communists mobilized 63 divisions totaling over 41,000 troops and an additional 60,000 militia in the Central and Southern China Military Region to fight the local bandits in the regions including western Henan, western Hubei, southern Jiangxi, northeastern Jiangxi, western Hunan, southern Hunan, western Guangdong, northern Guangdong, Pearl River Delta, western Guangxi, southeastern Guangxi and the border region between Hubei, Anhui and Henan.

China General Nuclear Power Group

Guangdong Nuclear's fund, the first industrial fund set up by a state-owned enterprise with approval from the State Council signed the fund-raising agreement with Bank of China, China Development Bank and other institutions, which will become shareholders in the fund.

Chuanshan

Chuanshan Archipelago (川山群岛), group of islands in the South China Sea, just off the coast of Guangdong

Encirclement Campaign against Hunan–Jiangxi Soviet

The communist Southeastern Huan Independent Division guarding the Hunan-Jiangxi Soviet deployed its 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment to strike Pingxiang, Jiangxi and Yichun, Jiangxi, and its 3rd Regiment was ordered to southeastern Hunan to join up with the Chinese Red Army 7th Army from Guangxi, which by then had reached the border region of Guangdong and Hunan provinces.

FAW-Volkswagen

The headquarters of FAW-VW, which consists of two car plants is located in the south-western fringes of Changchun, Jilin Province, the third car plant has been built in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the fourth car plant will be built in Foshan, Guangdong Province.

Frederic Wakeman

Strangers at the Gate focused on social disorder in the Pearl River Delta in the aftermath of the First Opium War and extensively utilized documents seized by the British from the Guangdong-Guangxi Governor-General's office.

Greater Taishan Region

Victor Fung (Heshan, Guangdong) - is the Group Chairman of Li & Fung (利豐) group of companies; his grand father founded the company

Guangdong Modern Dance Company

Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) is the first professional modern dance company in China founded in 1992 by its director Willy Tsao.

Haifeng dialect

Haifeng dialect, Lufeng dialect or Hailufeng dialect is a dialect mostly spoken in Shanwei, Haifeng and Lufeng in Guangdong, China.

History of transport in Hong Kong

The Kowloon Canton Railway (now the East Rail Line on the MTR system) was built from the southern tip of Kowloon to Canton (now Guangzhou) in the Kwangtung Province (now Guangdong Province) in the 1900s.

Honghai Railway Station

Honghai is a railway station in Zengcheng, Guangdong, China.

Hui Cheung-ching

Hui Cheung-ching, SBS, JP (4 September 1942, Puning, Guangdong, China – 6 January 2005, Hong Kong) was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1998–2004 for the Import and Export constituency.

Ip Man: The Final Fight

Checkley Sin invested over HK$100 million for the construction of the Xiqiao DreamWorks film studio in Mount Xiqiao, Foshan, Guangdong, recreating sets that imitate colonial Hong Kong of the early 1950s.

Philippine Hokkien

Starting from the early 19th century, Chinese migrants from Fujian province, specifically from Quanzhou eventually eclipsed those from Guangdong province, establishing Hokkien as the primary variety of Chinese spoken in the Philippines.

PIKO

PIKO manufactures its own products, at its headquarters factory in Sonneberg (Thüringen) Germany, and at its own factory, PIKO China, in Guangdong, PRC.

Rana sangzhiensis

It is known only from Mount Tianping, in Sangzhi County, Hunan (the type locality), and from Mount Dadong in Lianxian County, Guangdong.

Shahe fen

Shahe fen is believed to have originated in the town of Shahe (沙河; Cantonese: Sa1ho4 pinyin: Shāhé), now part of the Tianhe District in the city of Guangzhou, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, whence their name derives.

Shiwan

Shiwanzhen Subdistrict (石湾镇街道), formerly named Shiwan Subdistrict, Chancheng District, Foshan, Guangdong

Slavery in Vietnam

A 1499 entry in the Ming Shilu recorded that thirteen Chinese men from Wenchang including a young man named Wu Rui were captured by the Vietnamese after their ship was blown off course while traveling from Hainan to Guangdong's Qin subprefecture (Qinzhou), after which they ended up near the coast of Vietnam, during the Chenghua Emperor's rule (1447 - 1487) .

Time Weekly

The Time Weekly, Chinese newspaper based in Guangzhou, Guangdong

Wong Fei-hung

In Will Thomas' third mystery novel, The Limehouse Text, his Victorian detective Cyrus Barker trained in martial arts in Guangdong under Wong Fei-hung's tutelage.

Xiqiao

Mount Xiqiao, a dormant volcano in Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong, China

Yang Chaosheng

Yang Chaosheng (Chinese: 杨超声; Pinyin: Yáng Chāoshēng; born 19 July 1993 in Dongguan, Guangdong) is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Guangzhou Evergrande in the Chinese Super League.

Yang Ti-liang

Yang was born in Shanghai on 30 June 1929 to an influential family which had roots in what was Nanguan in Xiangshan County of Guangnan East Circuit (now Zhongshan, Guangdong Province) since the early twelfth century, although they had resided in Shanghai since the early nineteenth century.