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This blog was created to help us all with our travel to and throughout China, and then home again.

It is about us going back to where our grandfather was from and therefore finding ourselves. (See the 'about me' section at the bottom of the page.) For those who don't know about 'blogs.' It's pretty simple, you can just read them and/or you can add comments if you want to. The first one is usually at the bottom and the most recent addition is at the top of the page. Then of course, you might want to learn to speak a few Cantonese words or play with the kitten in the side bar. I will be adding more things as time goes on.

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Saturday

Pearl River Delta 珠江三角洲

The Pearl River Delta covers nine prefectures of the province of Guangdong, namely Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing, and the SARs of Hong Kong and Macau. It had a population approximately of 60 million people in 2008.

The Pearl River Delta has become the world's workshop and is a major manufacturing base for products such as electronic products, toys and garments and textiles and plastic products, and a range of other goods. Much of this output is invested by foreign entities and is geared for the export market. The Pearl River Delta Economic Zone accounts for approximately one third of China's trade value.

Zhongshan 中山(jūng-shän) or Shekki (shĕ'kē') , town (1994 est. pop. 341,200), S Guangdong prov., SE China, near Macao. It is situated on Zhongshan island (sometimes called Macao island), and has sugar refineries. Sun Yat-sen was born there. The name sometimes appears as Chung-shan.
The dialing codes are: The country code is: 86 The city code is: 7654

Dachong Town 大涌镇 is about 47 kms or 1 hours drive south of Zhongshan. It is known that when villages were built since the Yuan Dynasty (14th century) and situated next to a river or stream which flowed towards the ancient sea of Shiqi, the region then was named after the river stream. The central region of the town was hilly, and the highest peak, Zhuoqishan (卓旗山), is 164m high. Flat land is located at the south and the north, and rivers flow at the east and the west region.

Zhongshan is a prefecture-level city of the Guangdong province. An uncommon administrative feature is that it has no county-level division. The city government directly administers 18 towns, four district offices (corresponding to the urban area of Zhongshan proper) and a development zone:

  • Towns
    • Banfu Town (板芙镇)
    • Dachong Town (大涌镇)
    • Dongfeng Town (东凤镇)
    • Dongsheng Town (东升镇)
    • Fusha Town (阜沙镇)
    • Gangkou Town (港口镇)
    • Guzhen Town (古镇镇)
    • Henglan Town (横栏镇)
    • Huangpu Town (黄圃镇)
    • Minzhong Town (民众镇)
    • Nanlang Town (南朗镇)
    • Nantou Town (南头镇)
    • Sanjiao Town (三角镇)
    • Sanxiang Town (三乡镇)
    • Shaxi Town (沙溪镇)
    • Shenwan Town (神湾镇)
    • Tanzhou Town (坦洲镇)
    • Xiaolan Town (小榄镇)

Information from Answers.com and Google.
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