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Fenggang, Dongguan
Fenggang () is a town under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Dongguan in Guangdong province, China. Location Fenggang is located southeast of Dongguan City and south of the towns of Tangxia and Qingxi. It borders Huizhou Huiyang District to the east and Shenzhen's Longgang District to the south. The total area of 82.5 square kilometers. The resident population of 31897 people in 2005, there are 300,000 floating residents. File:YingFongTower FengGang Town.jpg, Yingfong Tower, built 1929 File:Riverside farming FengGangTown DongGuan.jpg, Farmers working plots along the river in Fenggang Local residents Fenggang Town in 2004 has a resident population of eighteen thousand people. Hakka people make up three quarters of the total population, and the rest speak the Cantonese vernacular. Economy Underwear manufacturer Cosmo Lady Cosmo Lady (China) Holdings Company Limited ( HKSE: 2298), doing business as Cosmo Lady () is a Chinese company, headquartered in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town (China)
When referring to political divisions of China, town is the standard English translation of the Chinese (traditional: ; ). The Constitution of the People's Republic of China classifies towns as third-level administrative units, along with for example townships (). A township is typically smaller in population and more remote than a town. Similarly to a higher-level administrative units, the borders of a town would typically include an urban core (a small town with the population on the order of 10,000 people), as well as rural area with some villages (, or ). Map representation A typical provincial map would merely show a town as a circle centered at its urban area and labeled with its name, while a more detailed one (e.g., a map of a single county-level division) would also show the borders dividing the county or county-level city into towns () and/or township () and subdistrict (街道) units. The town in which the county level government, and usually the division's mai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangxia, Dongguan
Tangxia () is a town under the direct jurisdiction of Dongguan prefecture-level city in Guangdong province, China. It is located in the southeast of Dongguan's prefectural area and borders the Shenzhen districts of Longhua to the south and Guangming to the west. Transportation Tangxia will host four Dongguan Rail Transit stations under the current plans for construction of Line 4: # Tangxiaxi (Tangxia West) # Tangxia Center (Interchange with the North > South branch of the same line) # Dongxing Dadao # Tangxiadong (Tangxia East) There is a bus service from Tangxia to Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzhen. " Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport
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Cosmo Lady
Cosmo Lady (China) Holdings Company Limited (HKSE: 2298), doing business as Cosmo Lady () is a Chinese company, headquartered in Dongguan, that manufactures underwear; it is the largest such company in the country. In 2014 it was the largest such company, if operating revenue is the method of measurement, with its own brand. It operates some retail shops selling its own products. Zheng Yaonan () is the chairperson. History The brand was established in 1998 and the current corporation was established in 2009. - Note that the industrial park, known as in Chinese as "都市丽人工业园" (simplified) and "都市麗人工業園" (traditional) -- SeSimplifiedanTraditionalChinese "Milestones" pages -- is called "City Beauty Wind Industrial Park" in the English timeline page, but is shown as having the English name "City Beauty (Dongguan) Industrial Park" in the image shown in thEnglish about page(As of 2019/12/24) Historically the company sold only women's underwear. In 2014 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longgang District, Shenzhen
Longgang District () is one of the nine districts of Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is located in northeastern Shenzhen. With an area of , Longgang District is one of the largest districts by area in Guangdong province. The population of the district is 1,831,225. Subdistricts History Longgang was established as a district on January 1, 1993. Archaeologists discovered antiques which dated back 7, 000 years ago in Xiantouling () of Longgang District. Economy * Huawei is headquartered in Longgang District. * China South International Industrial Materials City (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Education Colleges and universities: * Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen * Shenzhen MSU-BIT University K-12 schools operated by the Shenzhen Municipal government include: *Shenzhen No. 3 Senior High School (深圳市第三高级中学) Senior High School Division - Central District * Shenzhen High School of Science (深圳科学高中) - Bantian Subdistrict * Shenzhen Institute of Technology (深 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenzhen
Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, and Huizhou to the northeast. With a population of 17.56 million as of 2020, Shenzhen is the third most populous city by urban population in China after Shanghai and Beijing. Shenzhen is a global center in technology, research, manufacturing, business and economics, finance, tourism and transportation, and the Port of Shenzhen is the world's fourth busiest container port. Shenzhen is classified as a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city in the world. Shenzhen roughly follows the administrative boundaries of Bao'an County, which was established since imperial times. The southern portion of Bao'an County was seized by the British after the Opium Wars an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huiyang District
Huiyang District ( postal: Waiyeung; is a district of Huizhou, Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. It was renamed in 2003 amid the restructuring of districts and counties in Huizhou. Formerly named Huiyang city (county level), its size shrank after the restructuring with several towns incorporated into the Huicheng district of Huizhou. Huiyang is the southern urban center of Huizhou along with Huicheng as the northern urban center. Administrative divisions Transport There is a bus service from Huiyang District to Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzhen. " Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport
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Huizhou
Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in central-east Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Heyuan to the northeast, Shanwei to the east, and Daya Bay of the South China Sea to the south. As of the 2020 census, the city has about 6,042,852 inhabitants and is administered as a prefecture-level city. Huizhou's core metropolitan area, which is within Huicheng and Huiyang Districts, is home to around 2,090,578 inhabitants. History During the Song dynasty, Huizhou was a prefectural capital of the Huiyang prefecture and the cultural center of the region. The West Lake in Huizhou was formerly known as Feng Lake. At the age of 59, Su Shi was exiled to Huizhou by the imperial government of Song. When he visited Feng Lake in Huizhou, he found it located in the west of the city and was as beautiful as West Lake in Hangzhou. Therefore, he renam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qingxi, Dongguan
Qingxi () is an industrial town located in the southeastern part of Dongguan prefecture-level city, Guangdong Province, China. Geography The town is situated in a somewhat mountainous region close to the Pearl River Delta. It is north of Shenzhen and southwest of Huizhou, and is approximately from the border with Hong Kong. Qingxi has an area of . History Qingxi has a deep cultural foundation based in part on its long history of Hakka culture. Qingxi was at first a desolate and uninhabited mountainous place. 800 years ago, during the Hongwu period of the Ming dynasty, Hakka people began moving into Qingxi from the Central Plain. They were touched by the overlapping steep peaks surrounding the place, and the crystal clear stream coming out of the mouth of the Yinping Mountain. Deer drank water from the stream, and the place was given the name Qingxi, also known as Deer City. At first, Hakka people opened up wasteland in the remote mountainous regions where they lived in thatched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prefecture-level City
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China's prefectural cities were designated as counties as the country's second level division below a province. From 1949 to 1983, the official term was a province-administrated city (Chinese: 省辖市). Prefectural level cities form the second level of the administrative structure (alongside prefectures, leagues and autonomous prefectures). Administrative chiefs (mayors) of prefectural level cities generally have the same rank as a division chief () of a national ministry. Since the 1980s, most former prefectures have been renamed into prefectural level cities. A prefectural level city is a "city" () and "prefecture" () that have been merged into one consolidated and unified jurisdiction. As such it is simultaneously a city, which is a munici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postal Code Of China
Postal codes in the People's Republic of China () are postal codes used by China Post for the delivery of letters and goods within mainland China. China Post uses a six-digit all-numerical system with four tiers: the first tier, composed of the first two digits, show the province, province-equivalent municipality, or autonomous region; the second tier, composed of the third digit, shows the postal zone within the province, municipality or autonomous region; the fourth digit serves as the third tier, which shows the postal office within prefectures or prefecture-level cities; the last two digits are the fourth tier, which indicates the specific mailing area for delivery. The range 000000–009999 was originally marked for Taiwan (The Republic of China) but is not used because it not under the control of the People's Republic of China. Mail to ROC is treated as international mail, and uses postal codes set forth by Chunghwa Post. Codes starting from 999 are the internal codes use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Standard Time
The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time), even though the country spans almost five geographical time zones. The official national standard time is called ''Beijing Time'' (BJT, ) domestically and ''China Standard Time'' (CST) internationally. Daylight saving time has not been observed since 1991. China Standard Time (UTC+8) is consistent across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Mongolia, etc. History In the 1870s, the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory was constructed by a French Catholic missionary. In 1880s officials in Shanghai French Concession started to provide a time announcement service using the Shanghai Mean Solar Time provided by the aforementioned observatory for ships into and out of Shanghai. By the end of 19th century, the time standard provided by the observatory had been switched to GMT+08:00. The practice has spread to other coastal ports, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
