Mulberry Park (Guangdong)
Mulberry Park (Guangdong), located in Huadu District of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China, is a tourist attraction which was set up in 2007 with registered capital of one million yuan. It is an exclusively-invested enterprise set and managed by The Institute of Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which focuses on agricultural processing, sericulture, and mulberry culture. And it is the first new ecotourism demonstration base in China.Official site of Mulberry Park, Guangzhou
(广州宝桑园官网). Accessed 16 Oct. 2016.

Sericulture

Originating in

Guangzhou
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 ...
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