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Guangzhou: South China
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Covering an area of 7434.4 square kilometers (2870 square miles), Guangzhou is home to more than 11 million people, including a 3.7 million transitory population. With the opening of China to the outside world, a large number of people from other regions of China swarmed into Guangzhou, one of the first 'open' cities in China. This has accelerated its economic development.
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The zoo in Guangzhou is the largest zoo in South China. It is on Xianlie Road. The zoo has over 2,000 animals representing some 200 species on exhibition. Among them: giant pandas, golden-haired monkey, and red-crowned crane.
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Guangzhou was ... a stronghold of the republican forces after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911. Sun Yatsen, the first president of the Republic of China, was born at Ciaiheng village south-west of Guangzhou . In the early 1920s, Sun headed the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) in Guangzhou , from where the republicans mounted their campaigns against the northern warlords. Guangzhou was also a centre of activities for the fledgling Communist Party.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Airlines announced today that its San Francisco - Guangzhou service will begin on June 18, 2008. United is the first U.S. carrier to offer daily, nonstop service between San Francisco and Guangzhou. The flight is now open for sale.
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TIANHE, Guangzhou, China, /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China World Trade Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: CWTD - News), announced today that the CEO Clubs China Limited ("CEO Clubs"), a subsidiary of CWTC, signed a strategic alliance agreement with the Foundation for Globalization Cooperation (''FGC''). Under the agreement, CEO Clubs will represent FGC for merchandising and selecting sponsors under certain conditions for the World Culture Diversification Forum and the Third Global Cooperation Forum, which will be held in November 2005, in Hangzhou, China.
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Guangzhou might lack shopping and touring opportunities but its cuisine is legendary. There are more restaurants in Guangzhou than you can eat in for a year, and a number of them have been operating for over a century. Cantonese cuisine, known for its delicate flavours, is one of the major cuisines in China and is probably the most recognised outside the country, albeit the style is not universally loved.
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