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The group departed Guangzhou on an early-morning train to Hong Kong. Upon arrival, meetings were held with officials from U.S. Consulate and ATO. The officials included the ATO director, representatives of the Consulate's political section - who explained the Hong Kong/China one-country/two-systems system - and the commercial cooperator division, who talked about non-agriculture trade issues. The group ... toured Victoria Peak, the highest point in Hong Kong, as well as the Aberdeen fishing village in the Hong Kong port.
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The first trade overtures from the British were rebuffed in 1625, but the imperial govÂernment finally opened Guangzhou to forÂeign trade in 1685. In 1757, by imperial edict, China 's foreign trade was restricted to Guangzhou , and the Co Hong, a Guangzhou merchants guild, gained exclusive rights to it. Foreigners were restricted to Shaman Dao. Trade flourished in China 's favour.
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It is faster and cheaper to take the high speed train (200kmph) from Shenzhen to Guangzhou. Shenzhen is right across the border from Hong Kong and thousands of people walk over the bridge between the two every day. China High Speed train tickets are numbered D8## and can be bought from ticket counters or machines.
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In 1839, the Imperial High Commissioner, Lin Ze Xu, started an anti-opium campaign, impounding and destroying thousands of tons of the drug in Guangzhou. The British military used this as a pretext to dispatch a fleet, and the situation rapidly deteriorated into the conflict known as the "Opium War." In 1842, the two countries signed the Treaty of Nanjing (the first of many so-called "agreements" forced upon the Chinese by foreign powers), under which the island of Hong Kong was ceded to the British, and Guangzhou became one of five "treaty ports" open to unrestricted foreign trade.
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Asia Payment Systems, Inc. has signed an agreement in principle to acquire Global Uplink Communications Ltd., a Chinese company based in Guangzhou, with established loyalty program operations and related services in China and Hong Kong. The agreement, which is subject to standard due diligence procedures as well as final documentation by both parties, should likely be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2006.
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The acquisition will add over 1,000 people to Steelcase's operations in China, from a factory in the Guangdong province and showroom/sales offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. After the transaction is closed, Ultra will continue to operate as an independent organization and brand in Greater China and the Asia Pacific region, and Ultra's current chairperson, Wendy Cho, and her existing management team will continue to lead the organization as it becomes part of Steelcase's Asia Pacific operations.
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