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Chaoyang Railway Station (Guangdong)
Chaoyang railway station () is a railway station located in the Chaoyang District of Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China, on the XiamenâShenzhen railway operated by the Guangzhou Railway Group, China Railway Corporation China State Railway Group Company, Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the People's Republic of China. China Railway operates passenger and freight transport throughout Ch .... References Railway stations in Guangdong {{Guangdong-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaoyang District, Shantou
Chaoyang District ( postal: Chaoyang; ) is a district in the municipality of Shantou, Guangdong Province, China. Administration Population figures given as of the 2003 census. Subdistricts (čĄé, ''jiedao'') * Wenguang () - pop. 146649 * Mianbei () - pop. 54942 * Chengnan () - pop. 108651 * Jinpu () - pop. 79252 Towns (é, ''zhen'') * Haimen () - pop. 115221 * Guanbu () - pop. 121930 * Heping () - pop. 162174 * Gurao () - pop. 135628 * Guiyu () - pop. 133727 * Tongyu () - pop. 116044 * Jinyu () - pop. 77977 * Zaopu () - pop. 49406 * Xilu () - pop. 154725 * Hexi () - pop. 79155 Famous natives *Chin Sophonpanich, founder of Bangkok Bank *Cai Chusheng (1906â1968), film director *Huang Guangyu Huang Guangyu, () (born 24 June 1969) is the former Chairman of GOME Group, which is the largest consumer electronics retailer in China. He had a net worth of US$1.7 billion as of 2005, according to ''Forbes'' magazine's world's richest people r ..., Chinese billionaire * Rocky Chen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shantou
Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow and sometimes known as Santow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative area of . However, its built-up (or metro) area is much bigger with 12,543,024 inhabitants including Rongcheng and Jiedong districts, Jiexi county and Puning city in Jieyang plus all of Chaozhou city largely conurbated. This is de facto the 5th built-up area in mainland China between Hangzhou-Shaoxing (13,035,026 inhabitants), Xian-Xianyang (12,283,922 inhabitants) and Tianjin (11,165,706 inhabitants). Shantou, a city significant in 19th-century Chinese history as one of the treaty ports established for Western trade and contact, was one of the original special economic zones of China established in the 1980s, but did not blossom in the manner that cities such as Shenzhen, Xiamen and Zhuhai did. However, it remains eastern Guangdong's econ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangdong
Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) across a total area of about , Guangdong is the most populous province of China and the 15th-largest by area as well as the second-most populous country subdivision in the world (after Uttar Pradesh in India). Its economy is larger than that of any other province in the nation and the fifth largest sub-national economy in the world with a GDP (nominal) of 1.95 trillion USD (12.4 trillion CNY) in 2021. The Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, a Chinese megalopolis, is a core for high technology, manufacturing and foreign trade. Located in this zone are two of the four top Chinese cities and the top two Chinese prefecture-level cities by GDP; Guangzhou, the capital of the province, and Shenzhen, the first special economic zone in the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corp
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road; it continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub as well as being one of China's three largest cities. For a long time, the only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders, Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War. No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major transshipment port. Due to a high urban population and large volumes of port traffic, Guangzhou is classified as a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city in the world. Due to worldwide travel restrictions at the beginning o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
