Guangzhou, China

Guangzhou is famous for its history and culture. Legend has it that five immortals arrived in Guangzhou wearing colorful clothes and riding colorful immortal sheep and the sheep held ears of rice in their mouths. They presented ears of rice to the people and proclaimed Guangzhou would never have famine. Thereafter, Guangzhou was known as Goat City or Sui Cheng and Wu Yang (five sheep) became the symbol of Guangzhou. Historical documents state that, the city walls were established in 214 B.C., and the city’s history reaches 2210 years. It has many important cultural and historical sites, which vividly reflect the development of Guangzhou’s historical phases.

The ancient Silk Route played an important role in trade in ancient times and Guangzhou now takes it’s place a one of the most important trade centers in modern China. Since China’s opening Guangzhou has been a leader in promoting economic and cultural communications and developing friendly relationship with foreign counties and presents all of the aspects of prosperity that have come because of its leadership in this area.

One of Guangzhou’s other titles is “City of Overseas Chinese” because of the high number overseas Chinese and foreign residents in the city. According to statistics, Guangzhou has 1,350,000 overseas residents, including 520000 overseas Chinese and Chinese with foreign nationalities from over 116 countries and areas. 830,000 Hong Kong – Macau citizens, and more than 1,000,000 returned overseas Chinese and their families and relatives have been drawn to Guangzhou for business related reasons.