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72 unusual facts about Guangzhou


2006 Asian Women's Handball Championship

The 2006 Asian Women's Handball Championship, the 11th Asian Championship, which was taking place from July 1 to July 5, 2006 in Guangzhou, China.

2012–13 IRB Women's Sevens World Series

In October 2012 the IRB announced that the season will consist of four tournaments - in Dubai, Houston, Guangzhou and Amsterdam - played in the from November 2012 to May 2013.

2013–14 IRB Women's Sevens World Series

In August 2013 the IRB announced that the season will consist of six tournaments - in Dubai, Atlanta, São Paulo, Guangzhou and Amsterdam - played from November 2013 to May 2014 (a sixth tournament will be added in due course).

Ana Carolina Reston

In January 2004 Reston made her first overseas trip to Guangzhou, China.

Brigitte Kwan

Before they could return to Canton, through Hong Kong, from the British Crown colony of Singapore, they found themselves amidst a sudden invasion by the Japanese soldiers at the outbreak of World War II.

Burmese roofed turtle

An individual was seen in 2007 in Qingping Market in Guangzhou, China.

Canton, New York

The town is named after the great port of Canton (now named Guangzhou) in China.

Canton, South Dakota

The residents named the community Canton, believing the location to be the exact opposite of Canton, China.

Chinese Garden of Friendship

The Chinese Garden of Friendship was designed by Sydney's Chinese sister city, Guangzhou in China.

Chūka Ichiban!

A skilled, experienced, and very well respected Chef in Guangzhou.

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Leon Lai plays a naive Northerner, Li Xiao-Jun, and Maggie Cheung plays an opportunist/entrepreneur from Cantonese speaking Guangzhou, Li Qiao, who takes advantage of mainlanders like herself for financial gains.

Cruizer-class sloop

Renamed Cruiser in 1856, she served on the China station during the Second Opium War, including the taking of Canton and the attack on the Taku Forts on the Peiho river in 1859.

Currimbhoy Ebrahim

Gujarati Muslims based in Bombay, who had been active in Canton (the capital city of the Guangdong Province in southern China) before the Opium War and long monopolized India's overseas merchandising, continued to maintain a considerable stake in the opium trade through E. Pabaney & Co, with branch offices springing up in Hong Kong and Shanghai during the latter half of the 19th century.

David Sassoon

He sent his son Elias David Sassoon to Canton, where he was the first Jewish trader (with 24 Parsi rivals).

Dennis Mak

Dennis' final performance with Sun Boy'z was on December 24, 2008 in Guangzhou.

Dongshan District

Dongshan District, Guangzhou, former divisions of Guangzhou, Guangdong; now a part of Yuexiu District

Evolution of the Dutch Empire

Canton (1749–1803)* Tea and porcelain were the principal products purchased by the Dutch East India Company in Canton (now known as Guangzhou.

Fangcun

Fangcun, Guangzhou (芳村), area of Guangzhou that formerly constituted Fangcun District

Foreign Devils

The story begins in China, 1800, when the Doctor and his companions arrive in their time machine, the TARDIS, at the English Trade Concession in Canton.

Geoffry Northcote

As the war proceeded, Canton (Guangzhou) was occupied by the Japanese, causing a population boom as refugees rushed into Hong Kong.

George William Rusden

At 28 years of age Rusden travelled to China and worked for a time at brother-in-law Ellis Gilman's Canton factory.

Gobrecht dollar

In 1804, the Mint unofficially ended production of silver dollars because many of the coins produced since that denomination had first been struck in 1794 were exported for their silver content to Eastern Asia, especially Canton (modern day Guangzhou).

Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu

Wu Pak Chiu was born in Guangzhou, China, and graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1937 where he studied voice under Professor Lu Cha Zhi.

Grupo Opaia SA

For reasons of purchase, investment and international knowledge among others, there are offices abroad in Lisbon in Portugal, São Paulo in Brazil, Guangzhou in China, Miami in the US and the main office is in the own capital Luanda.

Guangzhou-Kowloon Through Train

The narrow gauge materials were later used to build the now-defunct Sha Tau Kok Railway.

Henry Milner Rideout

Keeping careful notes, writing long detailed letters to his brother, he observed so well and later used atmosphere so skillfully that readers familiar with places such as Bangkok or Canton were persuaded that Rideout's familiarity equaled their own.

Hidemitsu Nakano

In February 1939, he was transferred to the staff of the IJA 21st Army and was appointed bureau head of military intelligence in Guangzhou.

Hong Kong Island by-election, 2007

Ma Lik, who announced on 8 August 2004 that he had colon cancer, died on 8 August 2007 in Guangzhou before his term expired.

Hotaru Yamaguchi

He was named to the Japan Under-21 team in his second season and played in all of the matches in a gold medal campaign at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.

Hovid Inc

Dr. Ho learnt Chinese tradition medicine when he was 18, graduate from China Canton Wah Lam National Physicians Medical School, Guangzhou, China at the age of 28 and created the Chinese herbal tea with the brand name Ho Yan Hor at his 35.

John Renshaw Thomson

In 1817, he went to China and became a merchant in Canton where he was United States Consul from 1823 to 1825.

Kam–Sui languages

Many Kam–Sui speakers have also migrated to farther urban areas such as Guangzhou.

Kinesis Industry

Based in Taiwan, it has a plant in Guangzhou, China, and an American subsidiary (Kinesis USA, Inc.) in Portland, Oregon that generates $5–$10million in annual sales.

Lanhe

Lanhe, Guangzhou (榄核镇), town in Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Lin Wang

The remaining three elephants, including Lin Wang, were relocated to a park in Guangzhou.

Lutheran Church of China

The assembly was originally scheduled to be held in Guangzhou, Guangdong in 1940 but had to be postponed due to the Sino-Japanese War.

Maesteg

After his Llynfi venture, John Bowring became British Consul in Canton, China, and was Governor of Hong Kong 1854-59.

Meizu M8

The M8 was released for public testing on April, 2007 in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, drawing positive reviews.

Millettia

In the 1820s-1830s Charles Millett, a plant collector and an official with the East India Company, collected many samples of Millettia while living in Canton and Macao.

Mongol invasions of Vietnam

Sogetu of the Jalayir, the governor of Canton, was dispatched to demand the submission of Champa.

Optical 88

Optical 88's headquarters is located at Hong Kong, China (dispersed all over Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories) while overseas stores are located at various countries and cities including Macau, Guangzhou, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia etc.

ParknShop

The chain's first mainland superstore opened in 2000 and its first mainland megastore followed in 2001 in the Tianhe district of Guangzhou.

Pierre Poivre

In his early 20s he was a missionary in Far Eastern locations such as Cochinchina, Guangzhou and Macau.

Pyotr Gusev

He set up the first ballet academies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and also taught the first generation of Chinese ballet dancers in those institutions.

Radio Canada International

Before beginning its Mandarin Chinese service, RCI produced a 40-week series called Everyday English which was broadcast in 1988 and early 1989 over local stations in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

Raymond To

Raymond To Kwok Wai (Chinese: 杜國威) is a dramatist, screenwriter and film director from Hong Kong, with ancestry from Panyu, Guangzhou,Guangdong.

Rising Antivirus

The company has subsidiaries and branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Australia and Beijing.

Robin Hyde

Various peregrinations through China followed, including Canton and Hankow, the latter of which was the centre of Chinese resistance to Japanese occupation.

Ruan Yuan

It was a critical time when Chinese trade with the outside world was allowed only through the Canton System, with all foreigners confined to Guangzhou (Canton), the capital of Guangdong.

Sakata Tōjūrō IV

He has also performed abroad, his September 2007 tour taking him to Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.

SBB-CFF-FFS Re 460

The MTR also operates two Re 460 variants for its cross-boundary service to Guangdong from Hong Kong to Guangzhou.

Seong Moy

Moy was born in a small town outside of Canton, China; he emigrated to the United States at the age of 10 in 1931, and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota.

Shin Soo-ji

She was also a member of the 2010 Korean gymnastics team that took fourth place at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

Silver Ash

They toured China in 2002, performing in ten cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Chongqing.

Sing-song girls

The novel River of Smoke, whose plot is set in southern Chinese port cities, refers to prostitutes in Canton as sing-song girls several times.

Southern Dragon Kung Fu

1900, a Chan (Zen) master named Daai Yuk taught Southern Dragon style to Lam Yiu Gwai, who in turn passed the art on to the many students of his schools in Guangzhou.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Styles of Chinese martial arts

Similarly, in the South, the cities of Shanghai, Quandong and Foshan all represented centers of martial arts development.

Tennis at the 2010 Asian Games

Tennis competitions at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China were held from November 13 to November 23 at the Guangdong Olympic Tennis Centre.

The Missing Gun

Ma knocks on Zhou's door but is greeted by Li Xiaomeng (Ning Jing), Ma's former lover who married and moved to Guangzhou, but has since returned.

Three Principles of the People

The most definite (canonical) exposition of these principles was a book compiled from notes of speeches Sun gave near Guangzhou (taken by a colleague, Huang Changgu, in consultation with Sun), and therefore is open to interpretation by various parties and interest groups (see below) and may not have been as fully explicated as Sun might have wished.

Tongues of Serpents

Tharkay asks to join them, eventually revealing that he has been tasked with tracking down a smuggling ring that operates out of China—and not out of Canton, the sole Chinese port open to foreigners.

Transmac

Before 2008, Xinfuli also operated in Guangzhou and Foshan, but this two cities's Xinfuli has been purchased by others.

True Temper Sports

True Temper also has a graphite manufacturing facility in Guangzhou, China.

Tsai Shengbai

Mayar loaded its plant and equipment on twelve ships bound for Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Chongqing.

Tsang Siu-Fo

Tsang Siu-Fo (曾昭科) was born in May 1925 in Guangzhou, China.

Type 037-II-class missile boat

The Type 037-II (NATO codename: Houjian class) is a missile equipped corvette built by Huangpu Shipyard of Guangzhou for the People's Liberation Army Navy.

USS Don Juan de Austria

From 5 June 1900 to 18 October 1900 Don Juan de Austria was anchored off Canton, China, to protect American interests during the Boxer Rebellion.

War of Jenkins' Ear

He retreated across the Pacific, running into a storm that forced him to dock for repairs in Canton.

Y. T. Wu

Wu was born in Guangzhou in 4 November 1893 to a family engaged in commerce.

Yau Kung Moon

In 1924, Ha Hon Hung opened up the first Yau Kung Moon Academy at the Pearl River Martial Arts Club in Guangzhou (Canton) and formed the Ha Hon Hung Sports Association.

Zebra Technologies

Since 2008, Zebra has outsourced the majority of its printer manufacturing to Jabil Circuit in Guangzhou, China.


9th National Games of the People's Republic of China

As a result, many prominent international guests were invited to the games in Guangzhou, including IOC president Jacques Rogge.

Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest

In November 1794, the embassy, which included van Braam and Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (son of Joseph de Guignes) left Guangzhou and it arrived in Beijing in January 1795, just in time for Chinese new year.

Automated Systems Holdings Limited

The ASL Group, consisting of Automated Systems (HK) Limited, ELM Computer Technologies Limited, CSA Automated (Macau) Ltd., Taiwan Automated Systems Ltd., Guangzhou Automated Systems Limited and ASL Automated (Thailand) Ltd., offers professional information technology services to corporate clients in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Mainland China and Thailand.

Barbara Kuit

IBA has won some of the most prestigious international competitions among which the competition for the world’s tallest TV tower, the Canton Tower, formerly known as the Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower in Guangzhou, China (completed in 2010).

Charles Gbeke

Gbeke made his China League One debut for Guangzhou against Beijing BIT on April 3 and earned a penalty kick in 23rd minute, which helped China national team striker Gao Lin score his first goal for Guangzhou.

Cheung Yuk

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, Cheung and his new partner Jiang Huajun captured the silver medal in the mixed doubles, with a set score of 1–4, losing out to the host nation's duo Xu Xin and Guo Yan.

China Poly Group Corporation

Having its affiliated enterprises and projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Changsha, Tianjin, Harbin, Shenyang, Chongqing, Hainan, and Hong Kong etc., the Group Corporation has made significant achievements in capital scale, economic benefits, business management and system construction, characterized by professionalism, scale operation and optimal allocation of resources.

Cho Won-Hee

On 30 May 2012, Cho suffered a rib fracture in the Round of 16 of 2012 AFC Champions League which Guangzhou Evergrande beat F.C. Tokyo 1–0.

Hengyang-Liuzhou Intercity Railway

It departs from the Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway at Hengyang East Railway Station, it then travels west through the major cities of Yongzhou, Guilin and arriving at Liuzhou

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.

Hung Sin-nui

Hung died on 8 December 2013 of a heart attack at the Guangdong General Hospital in Guangzhou, where she had retired to in her last years.

India at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

He earned the berth in 100 m breaststroke – SB8 event after winning a bronze medal in the Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, China.

Low-speed vehicle

4 e-jeeps were launched by Jejomar Binay on 2007, with 2 prototypes from Guangzhou Langqing Electric Car Co., Ltd., China at P 371,280 each.

Second Opium War

Following the election and an increased majority for Palmerston, the voices within the Whig faction who were in support of China were hushed, and the new parliament decided to seek redress from China based on the report about the Arrow Incident submitted by Harry Parkes, British Consul to Guangzhou.

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.

Simon Willson

Traveling with a group of more than 20 performers and crew performing in 81 large nightclubs and discos in 33 Major Chinese cities including Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai, Dongguan, Shenzen, Shantou, Guangzhou, Beijing and Harbin nearly all the way to Mongolia.

Thomas Simson Pratt

In the attacks on Canton from 24 May to 1 June, he was in command of his regiment, and was present also at the demonstration before Nanking, and at the signing of the Treaty of Nanking on board HMS Cornwallis.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge

In May 1912, railroad engineer Jeme Tien Yow was made head of the Wuhan-Guangzhou railway association by the Beiyang Government.

Zhengde Emperor

In several initial missions commissioned by Afonso de Albuquerque of Portuguese Malacca, the Portuguese explorers Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello landed in southern China and traded with the Chinese merchants of Tuen Mun and Guangzhou.