Sh ng EnglishName Guangdong Province Name Guangdong LocalTranscription1 Cantonese Jyutping Gwong ... Romanization Cantonese Yale Yuht ISOAbbrev 44 Map Guangdong in China all claims hatched .svg MapSize ... showflag jyp order st Contains Chinese text Guangdong is a Province China province on the South ... populous and important cities in China. Since 1989 Guangdong has topped the total Gross domestic ... preliminary statistics of Guangdong GDP in 2009 ref Guangdong s GDP in 2009 reached Renminbi ... 90001 90778 98505 6903538.html GDP of 31 provinces in China released ref Guangdong has List of China ... of multinational and Chinese corporations. Guangdong also hosts the largest Import and Export Fair in China called the Canton Fair in Guangdong s capital city Guangzhou. Name Guang itself means expanse ... 226. Guangdong and neighbouring Guangxi literally mean expanse east and expanse west . Together, Guangdong ... as Guangdong lu and Guangxi lu . The modern abbreviation Yue is a shortened form of Baiyue ... of Guangdong , refers only to the Guangzhou provincial capital instead of the whole province, as documented ... related residents and Chinese dialects outside the provincial capital. History Guangdong ... Wu of Han . The Han Dynasty administered Guangdong, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam as Jiaozhi Jiaozhi Province . Under the Kingdom of Wu Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period, Guangdong was made its own province, the Guang Province, in 226. As time passed, the demographics of what is now Guangdong ... with Guangxi, Guangdong was made part of Lingnan Circuit political division Circuit , or Mountain South Circuit, in 627 during the Tang Dynasty . The Guangdong part of Lingnan Circuit was renamed ... of Guangdong . As Mongol s from the north engaged in their conquest of China in the 13th ... up in today s Guangdong. The Battle of Yamen 1279 in Guangdong marked the end of the Southern Song Dynasty 960 1279 . During the Mongol Yuan Dynasty , large part of current Guangdong belongs to Jiangxi ... more details
Guangdong music may refer to the music of Guangdong a specific genre called Guangdong music genre Guangdong music and also known as Cantonese music Disambig ... more details
Guangdong Hongyuan can refer to Guangdong Hongyuan Group . Guangdong Southern Tigers , the basketball club owned by Guangdong Hongyuan Group. Guangdong Hongyuan F.C. , the disfunct Football soccer football club owned by Guangdong Hongyuan Group. disambig ... more details
Xinyi zh s p X n y is a county level city in Guangdong province, People s Republic of China . It has a population of 170,368 people. Xinyi is located in the prefecture level city of Maoming . ref http www.articlesbase.com entrepreneurship articles xinyi guangdong overseas chinese bamboo products from the countryside into the international 2920330.html ref ref http english.peopledaily.com.cn 90001 90783 91300 7150317.html ref Transportation China National Highway 207 References refs External links http www.xinyi.gov.cn Xinyi government website zh icon Coord 22.351981 110.953074 display title Guangdong geo stub County level divisions of Guangdong Category County level divisions of Guangdong Category Cities in Guangdong de Xinyi Maoming fr Xinyi Guangdong hak Sin n s ko ja no Xinyi Maoming vi T n Nghi war Xinyi, Guangdong zh yue zh ... more details
Infobox planet minorplanet yes width 25em bgcolour FFFFC0 apsis name Guangdong symbol image caption discovery yes discovery ref discoverer discovery site discovered , designations yes mp name 2185 alt names 1965 WO named after Guangdong mp category orbit ref epoch May 14, 2008 aphelion 3.1497485 perihelion 2.2648405 semimajor eccentricity 0.1634303 period 1627.0529736 avg speed inclination 9.59242 asc node 60.83074 mean anomaly 276.43994 arg peri 261.94271 satellites physical characteristics yes dimensions mass density surface grav escape velocity sidereal day axial tilt pole ecliptic lat pole ecliptic lon albedo 0.1840 temperatures temp name1 mean temp 1 max temp 1 temp name2 max temp 2 spectral type abs magnitude 11.30 2185 Guangdong 1965 WO is a Asteroid belt main belt asteroid discovered on November 20, 1965 at the Purple Mountain Observatory . External links http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 2185 Guangdong JPL Small Body Database Browser on 2185 Guangdong Reflist Minor planets navigator 2184 Fujian 2186 Keldysh Small Solar System bodies DEFAULTSORT Guangdong Category Main Belt asteroids Category Asteroids named for places Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1965 Beltasteroid stub de 2185 Guangdong eo 2185 G angdongo fa it 2185 Guangdong la 2185 Guangdong hu 2185 Guangdong pl 2185 Guangdong pt 2185 Guangdong sk 2185 Guangdong sr 2185 Guangdong tl 2185 Guangdong uk 2185 vi 2185 Guangdong yo 2185 Guangdong zh 2185 ... more details
table border 1 align right tr td Image label begin image Geography of Guangdong.gif width width 300 float float none Image label x 0.30 y 0.065 scale width 350 text Northern br Guangdong Image label end td tr table Northern Guangdong , commonly referred to as Yuebei zh c wikt wikt p Yu b i , is a region of northern Guangdong province, in southern People s Republic of China China . It is a region encompassing mountainous and hilly terrain, and includes the region of Guangdong north of the Tropic of Cancer . See also Yuebei Tuhua Guangdong topics coord 24.691943 112.846069 display title Category Regions of China Category Guangdong Guangdong geo stub zh ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Songyuan zh c also Romanized as Sung y an hs , Sung y an hsin hs , Sung y an , and Hsin hs is a Town China town in Mei County, Guangdong Mei County , Guangdong province , China . References GEOnet 1927224 External links http mxsyz.gdmx.gov.cn SWEB mxsyz sweb index.aspx Official website of Songyuan Town Government Guangdong coord 24 43 55 N 116 22 27 E display title Category Cities in Guangdong Guangdong geo stub zh ... more details
Sanba is a Town of China township located northwest of Taicheng Subdistrict Taicheng , capital of Taishan , in the Guangdong province of southern China . Most of its inhabitants have the family clan name of Chen surname Chen and Kwong . coord 22.293226 112.691231 display title Category Taishan Guangdong geo stub ... more details
File New Guangdong Provincial Museum overview.JPG right thumb 250px Guangdong Museum. Guangdong Museum zh s p Gu ng d ng b w gu n x n gu n is new public museum in Guangzhou , capital of Guangdong province, China . ref http www.lifeofguangzhou.com node 10 node 37 node 85 2010 05 17 127406955276579.shtml ref It is located in Zhujiang New Town of Guangzhou . ref http news.163.com 10 0519 08 671KC2OR00014AEE.html , news.163.com ref It is designed by Rocco Design Architects Limited . Location Guangdong museum is situated by the northern banks of the Pearl River China Pearl River in the centre of Tianhe District, the Central Business District of Guangzhou. ref http news.china.com.cn rollnews 2010 05 19 content 2209996.htm news.china.com.cn ref ref name arup http www.arup.com Projects Guangdong Museum.aspx ref ref http www1.www.gov.cn jrzg 2010 05 17 content 1607889.htm ref History The museum has recently completed construction in 2010. The museum opened on May 18, 2010 to the public. ref http www.lifeofguangzhou.com node 10 node 37 node 85 2010 05 17 127406955276579.shtml ref Developed by Arup , the Guangdong Museum covers a total floor area of 66,980 square metres. ref name arup http www.arup.com Projects Guangdong Museum.aspx ref The five storey building consist of four large exhibition halls with a collection of over 130,000 exhibits. ref name arup http www.arup.com Projects Guangdong Museum.aspx ref References Reflist Guangdong topics coord missing Guangdong Category Museums in Guangdong Category Buildings and structures in Guangzhou Category Tianhe District Category Museums established in 2010 ... more details
unreferenced date March 2011 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Chinesemusic In modern times, the provinces of China Chinese province of Guangdong has become known for Guangdong music genre Guangdong music later Guangdong folk tunes , a synthesis of a number of local folk music styles like kunqu opera , intended as an accompaniment for the region s folk operas when it arose along the Pearl River Delta in the 1920s. It gradually evolved into a string ensemble format by the 1960s, led by the gaohu with ruan , qinqin , yangqin , sanxian , yehu , and various woodwind instrument woodwind including Guan instrument houguan or saxophone and percussion instrument percussion instruments. Formerly, bowed stringed instruments such as the erxian and tiqin were used. Compositions by the noted gaohu player L Wencheng , 1898 1981 remain particularly popular. Cantonese opera is popular in Pearl River Delta . Musical institutions in Guangdong include the Guangdong International Summer Music Festival . Teochew music and Teochew opera is pupular in Chaoshan . Hakka music is literary and laid back in tone, and consists entirely of five notes many folk songs only use three notes. Image China Guangdong.svg thumb left 275px Guangdong topics Guangdong DEFAULTSORT Music Of Guangdong Category Music of Chinese subdivisions Guangdong Category Music of Guangdong Music genre stub China music stub zh yue zh ... more details
Infobox Company company name Radio Guangdong company logo Deleted image removed Image Radioguangdong.jpg company type Government company slogan foundation 1949 location 686 Rd. Renmin North, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou , Guangdong , People s Republic of China key people Bai Ling industry Radio broadcasting , Newspaper num employees products News, Entertainment, Music revenue homepage http www.rgd.com.cn Radio Guangdong zh s t p Gu ngd ng Di nt i is a public broadcasting organization in Guangdong. Radio Guagndong has 9 branch radio channel communications channels and 2 newspaper s in Guangdong. Headed by Leader Bai Ling . History Radio Guangdong used to be Radio Canton , a radio station in Guangzhou Canton , the capital city of Guangdong Province. It first broadcast on October 18, 1949 and was renamed Radio Guangdong on February 16, 1950. Radio Guangdong was also the first radio ... Frequency Language Main Languages valign top Radio Guangdong News Station br lang zh cn br i formerly Satellite Radio Guangdong br lang zh cn i Amplitude modulation AM br Frequency modulation ... lang zh cn FM 93.6 MHz Mandarin and Yue Chinese Cantonese valign top Radio Guangdong Stock ... valign top Music FM Radio Guangdong br lang zh cn FM 93.9, 99.3 MHz Mandarin and Cantonese valign top Radio Guangdong Voice of the City br lang zh cn FM 103.6 MHz ... and Cantonese valign top Radio Guangdong Voice of Guangdong br lang zh cn FM 105.7 MHz Mandarin and Cantonese valign top Radio Guangdong Wenti Guangbo br lang zh cn FM 107.6 ... zh cn , lit. Guangdong Broadcast News Gushi Kuaibao lang zh cn , lit. Stock Market News External links http www.rgd.com.cn Radio Guangdong zh icon en http www.fm914.com Radio Guangdong News Station http www.e974.com Pearl Radio http www.fm993.com.cn Music FM Radio Guangdong http www.fm1036.com Radio Guangdong Voice of the City http www.fm1052.com.cn Guangzhou Traffic News Telecommunications ... more details
The Economy of Guangdong is one of the most prosperous in China. Guangdong is located in southern China , bordering on the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau . It is also the largest ... of Guangdong with figures in millions of Chinese Yuan class wikitable sortable Year Gross domestic ... Xiaoping reforms in 1978, Guangdong was an economic backwater, although a large underground, service ... in the interior provinces which were weakly linked to Guangdong via transportation links. The government policy of economic autarchy made Guangdong s access to the ocean irrelevant. Facts date April ... 2008 Although Shanghai is often cited as evidence of China s success, Guangdong s economic boom demonstrates that China has become a labor intensive manufacturing economy. Guangdong s economic boom began ... inward. Guangdong is China s largest exporter, as well as it s largest importer of goods. ref http www.thechinaperspective.com topics province guangdong province ref It s extensive manufacturing ... in China. ref http www.thechinaperspective.com topics province guangdong province ref The province ... business 2011 02 14 content 12004550.htm ref In 2008, Guangdong s primary, secondary, and tertiary ... http news.xinhuanet.com english 2006 02 02 content 4128978.htm News.xinhuanet.com 02 02 2006 ref Guangdong ... of Guangdong, however, remains very much concentrated in a handful of cities near the Pearl River Delta . ref http www.thechinaperspective.com topics province guangdong province ref In 2008 .... By numbers, Guangdong s foreign trade accounts for more than a quarter of China s US 2.56 trillion ... 6389962.htm Guangdong reports 20 foreign trade growth Bot generated title ref Recently, more than 7000 factories based in southern Guangdong cities such as Shenzhen and Dongguan has shut due to rapidly ... Industrial Development Zone References reflist Guangdong topics Guangdong Category Guangdong Category Economy of Guangdong zh ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 coord 23 16 31 N 112 49 35 E display title as per GEOnet, I presume coord 23 27 N 112 40 E display title region CN 62 as per Google maps Wangtang is a village in Jianggu Town of the county level city of Sihui, Guangdong Sihui , in the prefecture level city of Zhaoqing , Guangdong Province, China . ref http detail.dituren.cn place cn VGtSUmVFMXFaekJOVkVWM1RXcEZkdz09.aspx China Place names Guangdong Province Zhaoqing City Sihui City Jianggu Town Wangtang Village The entry says that there is no record for Wangtang, and offers the entry for Sihui City. But at least it implies that the village exists or existed . zh icon ref It is located in the southern part of Jianggu Town, some 4 km from the town center, and has a population of 2570. ref http webcache.googleusercontent.com search?q cache GAv7XVVBZJ4J dflz.zhaoqing.gov.cn website dflz dflzCjAction.action 3ForgCode 3D4412841205 26orgName 3D 25CD 25FA 25CC 25C1 25B4 25E5 E8 82 87 E5 BA 86 E5 B8 82 2B E6 97 BA E5 A1 98&cd 4&hl en&ct clnk&gl us&source www.google.com Basic information on Wangtang Village, Jianggu Town, Sihui City Google cache of http dflz.zhaoqing.gov.cn website dflz dflzCjAction.action?orgCode 4412841205&orgName CD FA CC C1 B4 E5 ref The village is served by Guangdong Provincial Highway 260 S260 . ref Google Maps and a Guangdong Provincial Atlas, ISBN 978 7 80212 086 0 ref References Reflist GEOnet 6022429 Guangdong geo stub Category County level cities in Guangdong Category Villages in China nl Wangtang Guangdong ... more details
chinesetext Lianjiang is a County level city in the Prefecture level city municipal region of Zhanjiang , Guangdong . The city is bordered on the east by Maoming Municipality on the south by Wuchuan City , Beitou District, Guangdong Beitou District and Suixi County, Guangdong Suixi County , all in Zhanjiang on the west by Anpugang Harbour , part of the Gulf of Tonkin and Beihai , in Guangxi Province and on the north by Yulin, Guangxi Yulin . Administration The city executive, legislature and Basic People s Court judiciary are in Liancheng Town , together with the Communist Party of China CPC and Public Security Bureau PSB branches. coord 21.744194 110.286255 display title Category County level divisions of Guangdong County level divisions of Guangdong de Lianjiang Zhanjiang fr Lianjiang hak Li m k ng s ko ja no Lianjiang Zhanjiang vi Li m Giang zh yue zh ... more details
Christianity is a minority in Guangdong , a province of People s Republic of China China . The province has more Christians than Islam Muslims . ref http www.ice.gov.it paesi asia cina profguangdong.pdf ref Religion in Hongkong Christianity in Hongkong enjoys more liberty. In the 16th, century missionaries entered Zhaoqing in Guangdong. ref http www.rlivio.it cina religione.htm ref Watchman Nee was from Guangdong. Mr. and Mrs. Elijah C. Bridgman were the first American Protestant missionaries to China and arrived in Guangzhou in 1830. ref http www.prayforchina.com province Guangdong.htm ref The protestant population of Guangdong exceeds half a million. ref http www.prayforchina.com province Guangdong.htm ref Roman Catholic missionary Matteo Ricci came to Guangdong Province in 1583. ref http www.prayforchina.com province Guangdong.htm ref The province has numerous house church es. ref http www.prayforchina.com province Guangdong.htm ref Guangzhou has Union Theological Seminary. Religious liberty is closer to be respected in Guangdong than in other areas. ref http www.irb cisr.gc.ca 8080 RIR RDI RIR RDI.aspx?id 453053&l f ref The house churches in Guangdong face the constant and fearful risk of being closed and its members punished. ref http www.unhcr.org refworld country,,IRBC,,CHN,,4dd208a12,0.html ref In September 1807 Robert Morrison landed in Guangzhou. ref http www.seamist.org peoples han chinese laos.php ref The province has more Protestants than Catholics. ref http www.seamist.org peoples han chinese laos.php ref Lutherans used to be active in the province. ref http www.elchk.org.hk english introduction e.htm ref Chaozhou Christianity reached Chaozhou in the 19th century. ref http chinesestudies.cuhk.edu.hk cuhk portal html cupjournal pdf 2250 3426 1 PB.pdf ref There used ... dioceses with seat in Guangdong Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Guangzhou Roman Catholic Diocese of Jiangmen ... In Guangdong Category Guangdong Category Christianity in China ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2006 The Guangdong Fighting Leopards are a China Baseball League team based in Guangdong . They play their games in Zhongshan Stadium . The Leopards began play in By 2002 . They were the second place team in By 2006 . In the By 2010 season they won their first championship in the league by beating the Beijing Tigers 2 0. Notable players Lai Guojun, Pitcher P Evan Fowler, Pitcher P Liu Kai , P signed with New York Yankees on June 18, 2007 Feng Yi, Catcher C Liu Guangbiao, Second baseman 2B Pan Wenbin Pan, Shortstop SS China Baseball League Category Baseball in China Category Sport in Guangdong PRChina baseball team stub ko ja zh ... more details
Dongzhou zh s t p D ngzh u is a coastal village in China s southern Guangdong province, in the Chengqu District, Shanwei Chengqu District of the prefecture level city of Shanwei . Dongzhou is located some 15 km south east of Shanwei s central urban area, on a peninsula that forms the south western side of the Jieshi Bay. It is connected to Shanwei s central urban area by the Guangdong Provincial Highway 241 S241 and County Road 141 X141 . The village is inhabited largely by farmers and fishermen . 2005 Protests main Dongzhou protests of 2005 The village was rocked by a series of protests in 2005 by village residents against the confiscation of land by local officials for the purpose of constructing power generation stations. One such protest, in December 2005, resulted in the shooting deaths of several villagers by security forces the Chinese government claimed that three were killed, while residents claimed that the number was between 20 and 33, with up to 40 more missing. External links coord 22.710362 115.532784 display title Category Guangdong Category Villages in China Guangdong geo stub fr Dongzhou Shanwei zh ... more details
Infobox Network network name Guangdong Television GDTV br network logo Image Gdtv.png 100px Guangdong Television country People s Republic of China network type Terrestrial television Broadcast parent Southern Media Corporation available Guangdong, China website http www.gdtv.com.cn www.gdtv.com.cn Expand Chinese date June 2010 Guangdong Television GDTV zh c p Gu ngd ng Di nsh T i is a television network owned by Southern Media Corporation in Guangzhou , Guangdong province in China. Guangdong TV is the oldest television station in Guangdong province, based in Guangzhou, near the Guangzhou TV Station. The station covers Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. At present, Guangdong TV has a staff of around 1,800 people. File GDTV Building.jpg thumb 200px Guangdong TV Centre Headquarters of Guangdong Television History GDTV Beginnings Guangdong Television was founded in 1959, which ... under the Guangdong People s Radio. Late in September of that year, Guangdong Taiwan towers was built ... 1960 1979 On 1 January 1960, the first program broadcast on Guangdong TV was Who is the Uncle . Later, in July, Guangdong TV opened a second channel. In 1963, the station wanted to produced its ... issue, Guangdong Province. As a result, GDTV became the first in the whole of Guangdong Taiwan Province ... TV Station was formally renamed Guangdong TV . With Radio Television Hong Kong RTHK , GDTV produced a show to promote Hong Kong and Guangdong cultural ties with far reaching significance. As a result ... programs. In early April, Guangdong Taiwan set up TV advertising. Advertising Bureau and Hong ... its debut on GDTV. In May 1982, Guangdong TV Weekly, a magazine, was established. In 1983, Chinese ..., two of GDTV s channels were renamed South Guangdong TV . It is aimed specifically at viewers that lived in the southern Guangdong area, primarily near Hong Kong and Macau . During the same year ... its debut on GDTV. See also Guangzhou Television Southern Television Guangdong References reflist ... more details
Infobox Company company name Guangdong Investment Company Limited br company logo Image Guangdong Investment logo.png company type State owned enterprise Red chip genre foundation 1973 founder location city Hong Kong location country People s Republic of China location origins key people Chairman Mr. Li Wenyue area served People s Republic of China industry Conglomerate company Conglomerate products services revenue operating income net income num employees parent divisions subsid owner company slogan homepage http www.gdi.com.hk Guangdong Investment Limited Guangdong Investment Limited hkex 270 was established and listed in Hong Kong in 1973. It is engaged in the businesses of property , infrastructure , energy , water supply to Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Dongguan , hotel management and department store operations. ref http www.gdi.com.hk english main e.php Guangdong Investment Limited ref See also China Resources Beer and breweries in China Reference reflist External links http www.gdi.com.hk Guangdong Investment Limited Hang Seng Hang Seng China Affiliated Corporations Index Category Government owned companies of the People s Republic of China Category Former Hang Seng Index Constituent Stocks Category Conglomerate companies of China Category Companies based in Guangzhou Category Companies established in 1973 zh ... more details
The Politics of Guangdong follows a dual party government system like the rest of China s provinces. Guangdong is known for a surge of legislative activism in recent years, often called the Guangdong Phenomenon Guangdong Xianxiang . The Guangdong Provincial People s Committee has enacted measures to increase democracy and transparency, and exert more control over the financial sector. In a well publicized case in 2000, the Guangdong PPC also harshly criticized the Environmental Protection Bureau for allowing the construction of an electroplating park without a proper environmental impact investigation. ref name Leviathan cite book last Yang first Dali authorlink Dali Yang coauthors title Remaking the Chinese Leviathan Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China publisher Stanford University Press date 2004 location Stanford, California pages 273 274 url doi id isbn 0 8047 5493 4 ref List of Governors Ye Jianying , November 1948 September 1953 Tao Zhu September 1953 August 1957 Chen Yu PRC politician Chen Yu 1957 1967 Huang Yongsheng November 1967 June 1969 Liu Xingyuan June 1969 April 1972 Ding Sheng April 1972 April 1974 Zhao Ziyang April 1974 October 1975 Wei Guoqing October 1975 January 1979 Xi Zhongxun 1979 1981 Liu Tianfu 1981 1983 Liang Lingguang 1983 1985 Ye Xuanping 1985 1991 Zhu Senlin 1991 1996 Lu Ruihua 1996 2003 Huang Huahua 2003 2011 Zhu Xiaodan 2011 present acting List of Party chiefs Ye Jianying ... 2007 List of Chairmen of Guangdong People s Congress Li Jianzhen 1979 1983 Luo Tian 1983 1990 ... Huang Liman 2005 January 2008 Ou Guangyuan January 2008 incumbent List of Chairmen of Guangdong ... reflist Guangdong topics Guangdong People s Republic of China politics Category Guangdong Category ... of China by province Guangdong Category China related lists Guangdong, politics Category Lists of Chinese province governors Guangdong sv Politik i Guangdong zh ... more details
Infobox settlement name Huazhou translit lang1 Chinese character Chinese translit lang1 type Chinese character Chinese translit lang1 info translit lang1 type1 Pinyin translit lang1 info1 Hu zh u postal code 525100 postal code type Postal code of China Postal code pushpin map China pushpin map caption Location in China settlement type County level city image skyline image map map caption Location of the county subdivision type Country subdivision name People s Republic of China China subdivision type1 Province subdivision name1 Guangdong subdivision type2 Prefecture subdivision name2 Maoming area code 0668 area total km2 2354 population population as of population density km2 auto population total 1,420,000 coordinates display inline,title coordinates region CN latNS N latd 21 latm 38 lats longEW E longd 110 longm 35 longs elevation ft elevation m timezone China Standard Time China Standard utc offset 8 website http www.huazhou.gov.cn Huazhou zh c p Hu zh u is a county level city in Guangdong Province , China . It is under the administration of Maoming city. External links http www.huazhou.gov.cn Official website of Huazhou Government County level divisions of Guangdong Category County level divisions of Guangdong Guangdong geo stub de Huazhou fr Huazhou hak Fa chiu s ko ja no Huazhou Maoming vi H a Ch u, M u Danh zh yue zh ... more details
The Guangdong Fleet Chinese was the smallest of China s four regional fleets during the second half ... 5 . Leadership In the summer of 1882, when China began to challenge French expansion in Tonkin, the Guangdong ... of the Guangdong Fleet during the 1870s and early 1880s is difficult to establish. British sources ... and Zhentao , and the composite gunboats Guangdong and Shandong , completed at Dumbarton ... seem to have been acquired by the Guangdong Fleet. One of them was probably Suiqing , normally spelled .... ref Wright, 20 ref Other vessels known to have served in Guangdong waters include the flatiron gunboat ... the steamer Zhenhai , condemned in 1874. ref Rawlinson, 246 Wright, 20 ref In 1881 the Guangdong fleet ... gunboats were completed at the Canton Dockyard in 1881 for the Guangdong fleet Jing an , Henghai .... In May 1882 the Guangdong Fleet was ordered to patrol the seas around Hainan Island and the Gulf of Tonkin in order to show the flag . In a letter concerning this deployment to the Zongli Yamen, the Guangdong authorities mentioned that the only reasonably large ships in the Guangdong Fleet at that period ... Fleet , Feiyun and Ji an , were seconded to the Guangdong Fleet at about this time. They remained in service with the Guangdong Fleet until August 1884. In response to the appeals for help of the Fujian ... 23 August 1884 . ref Rawlinson, 113 16 ref The Sino French War Given Guangdong s proximity to Tonkin northern Vietnam , where the main clashes in the Sino French War took place, the Guangdong ... of Pak hoi. No attempt was made by the Guangdong Fleet to break this blockade. Acquisitions, 1885 94 The Guangdong Fleet grew significantly during the second half of the 1880s, acquiring a force of gunboats ... contained the character guang , for Guangdong in their names. The first additions to the fleet were ... ton first class steam torpedo boats, Leihu and Leilong , were completed for the Guangdong Fleet ... 26 ton second class torpedo boats were completed for the Guangdong Fleet at the Schichau works in Germany ... more details
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capital of Guangdong province, Guangzhou, it occupies a strategic location on the Pearl River Delta ... E source dewiki region CN 44 type city format dms display title Category County level cities in Guangdong Category Jiangmen Guangdong geo stub County level divisions of Guangdong de Heshan fr Heshan Guangdong hak Ho k s n s ko nl Heshan ja no Heshan Jiangmen vi H c S n, Giang M n war Heshan, Guangdong zh yue zh ... more details
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