Blueprint of Zhujiang New City
South to Huangpu Dadao Avenue, north to the Pearl River, east to Guangzhou Dadao Avenue, and the west to South China Expressway, the Zhujiang New City is still under development. It will accommodate 170 to 180 thousand citizens. The whole project will be completed by 2010, before the Guangzhou Asian Games. The core zone of Zhujiang New City features 37 large business buildings and seven city landmarks including the Guangzhou Opera House, a library, the new Guangdong Museum, the second Children's Palace, the Double Towers and the new TV tower. At the crossing of the Pearl River, the axis of the city, Zhujiang New City will become the central business district of 21st century Guangzhou.
Zhujiang New City covers an area of 6.5 square kilometers with a construction area of 14,960 thousand square meters. There are fourteen 20- to 40-hectare blocks inside the city designated by administrative block, residential block, financial and trading block, cultural activity block, and business and shopping blocks. Zhujiang New City will become a first tier hub for international finance, trading, business, entertainment, administration and residence.
In Zhujiang New City, the shoreline of the Pearl River, the skyline of Guangzhou's Tianhe Sports Center and the 88-story Citic Plaza, combined with the Double Towers and the TV tower, create a beautiful view of scenic Guangzhou.
Guangzhou Bureau of Urban Planning
Tel: 8333 5978
Guangzhou Tianhe Software Park
Established in 1999, the Guangzhou Tianhe Software Park has been certified as a state-level hi-tech industry development zone by the State Council. The park is one of the top 11 Software Industry Bases in China, and is also the base of the China Network Games and Animation Industry. Additionally, it is the country's headquarters of Software Product Exporting and Out-sourcing.
From 1999 to 2006, the Tianhe Software Park attracted many IT giants like NetEase, Guangzhou Haige Communications Group Incorporated Company and HSBC Electronic Data Processing (Guangdong) Limited (HDPG), playing an important role in the country's emerging technology market. Six of its resident companies have since been listed as key national software enterprises and 11 are listed as important national software enterprises. The output of the software industries in the Park accounts for 75% of the output of the city. 32,000 people are employed in the software enterprises of the Park, including over 18,000 software technicians, ranking 2nd in the country in industry scale.
Gaotang Campus, with its 18 districts, is the core zone of the Tianhe Software Park. Renowned enterprises from both at home and abroad are stationed there, including the South China R & D Base of China Mobile; China Telecom's largest internet data center in Asia; RIB from Germany; and Transcosmos from Japan. Software testing platforms and prototype development platforms combine with software presentation trading platforms to form the service system of the Software Park. Others include the Guangdong Provincial Public Service Technology Center, Microsoft Guangzhou Technology and Guangzhou Middleware Research Center, together with ten other R & D centers.
Guangzhou Tianhe Software Park
Tel: 8707 1606
Guangzhou: China's Business Center
Guangzhou's ports have maintained crucial business and trade links to the outside world for over a thousand years. The city is known to have been a prosperous business center from early as China's ancient Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-220 AD); in the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasties (206 BC-220 AD), it became one of the first embarkation ports of the Maritime Silk Road. During the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties (618-1644 AD), international trade in Guangzhou continued to develop gradually, nurtured first by civil society and later by the government. By the boom years of the Qing Dynasty (1681-1792 AD), Guangzhou could be considered one of the ten most important cities the world. The decades before the Opium War (1839-1842 AD) saw Guangzhou's Shi San Hang (Thirteen Companies) become the premier trading giant in China.
Not even during China's later periods of emergency did Guangzhou's ports close. After the establishment of the new China, Guangzhou became the host of the only export trading fair (the Canton Fair) in the country. As China reformed and opened up in the late 1970s, this coastal city took the lead in liberalizing Chinese markets and allowing the price of consumer goods to come under market control.
The face of Guangzhou's business and shipping center is undergoing change as the city develops. The business district will expand to include both old downtown areas and new developments, including a swatch of land alongside the Pearl River. This region will cover Guangzhou thoroughfares like Beijing Road, Shangxiajiu Road, Huangshi Dong Road, Liuhua Road, Nonglin Xia Road, and Jiangnan Xi Road and major retail complexes like Tee Mall. A wholesale market circle—including the Huangsha aquatic product center, Fangcun flower center, Huadu flower center, Haiyin electrical appliance center, and Tianhe computer center—will also fall within the district.
Thus, Guangzhou's new commercial center will provide the city with a modern environment for business and trade, which will allow Guangzhou's historical links with the outside world to extend into the future.
Economic & Trade Commission of Guangzhou
Tel: 8312 3919
Convention Business
Guangzhou is the business and cultural center of south China, and its prosperity has made it one of the top three cities for exhibitions in the country. Guangzhou has won the title of "City of Most Vigorous Exhibition Industry in China" three years in a row.
Since 1957, Guangzhou has hosted the China Export Fair (Canton Fair) a total of one hundred times, increasing name recognition of the city around the world. Over the decades, Guangzhou has optimized the environment for the exhibition industry and has cultivated a unique tradition of specialized exhibitions, which are hosted by the city, by organizations, or with help from abroad. The city’s efforts integrate exhibition resources and standardize the market have led to increased profits for the industry. The construction of the 2nd and 3rd phases of the Guangzhou International Convention Center (GICC) in Pazhou, Haizhu District, is to be completed by the end of this year. The whole exhibition area of the city would reach over one million square meters by then. With an exhibition area of 330 thousand square meters, GICC can accommodate 17,500 booths. There are 270 business event organizers in Guangzhou. A statistics indicates that the annual revenue of Guangzhou's exhibition industry totaled respectively 2.435 billion yuan, 2.654 billion yuan and 2.953 billion yuan during 2004 to 2006. This booming industry promoted some other service sectors of the city. It brought the tourist consumption of 6.938 billion yuan in 2006, 91.71% more than the same period of 2005. It also drew revenue of tourist foreign exchange of 333 million USD in the same year, 39.03% more than the same period of 2005. The rapid development of convention business has been yielding substantial social benefits to the city.
Guangzhou Cooperation Office
Tel: 020-8332 8388
Baiyun Mountain
Located in northern Guangzhou, Baiyun Mountain ("White Clouds Mountain" in Chinese) was the first official National 4A-Graded Scenic Places. It consists of seven traveling zones of Fei E Ling (Flying Geese Ridge), Lu Hu (Lu Lake), San Tai Ling (Three Towers Ridge), Ming Chun Gu (Chirping-for-Spring Valley), Mo Xing Ling (Touching Sky Ridge), Ming Zhu Lou (Bright Pearl Tower), and He Yi Ling (Lotus-side Ridge) from the south to the north. The mountain is composed of over 30 hills in an area of about 28 square kilometers. The main peak Mo Xing Ling is the highest landscape, with the height of 382 meters.
The mountain started to be well-known even before the city was established. Celebrated scholars often toured here in China's Warring States Age (476 BC- 221 BC). Its natural beauty was famed in Jin Dynasty (376-584 AD), and even became a reputed place of interest in Tang Dynasty (618 -907 AD). Many scenic spots within were ranked among the "Top Eight Landscapes of Guangzhou" since the Song Dynasty (960 -1279 AD), including Jing Tai Gui Seng (monk back to Jingtai Temple), Pu Jian Lian Quan (spring in the Pu gully), Bai Yun Wan Wang (Dawn view at Baiyun Mountain), Bai Yun Song Tao (Sea of pine trees on Baiyun Mountain) and Yun Shan Die Cui (Lush green on Baiyun Mountain).
The changing history of Baiyun Mountain is a miniature of the city’s evolution, mirroring the historical and cultural origin of Guangzhou and Lingnan Region (Deep South of China).
Now the Baiyun Mountain features three national biggest --- The largest landscaped park Yuntai Park, the largest natural "birdcage" Mingchun Valley, and the largest sculpture park.
Baiyun Mountain Scenery Administration
Tel: 3722 2222
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