Dongguan Travel Guide
Dongguan City is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, one of China's most prosperous provinces. It is an important industrial and manufacturing base in China, with its annual export volume ranking behind only Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou in exports among Chinese cities. Dongguan is the native place for over 300,000 overseas Chinese and over 850,000 compatriots from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, according to government statistics in 2009.
Dongguan City is an important industrial and manufacturing base in China. The annual foreign trade volume of Dongguan ranks only behind Shanghai, Shenzhen and Suzhou among Chinese cities. There are about 8,000 domestic and 14,000 foreign-funded companies in Dongguan, covering various sectors including electronics, clothing, communications and food. Many famous multinational enterprises such as Nokia, Philips, GE and Nestle have established their companies or factories there.
Every year in mid-October, International Computer Communication & Consumer Products Expo ("Dongguan 3C Expo" for short) is held in Dongguan. The expo lasts for 3 days, gathering about 560 participant IT companies from all over the world. It is the 4th largest fair in IT industry, after COMDEX in Las Vegas, CeBIT in Hannover, Germany and CompuTex in Chinese Taipei. more about Dongguan »
- Chinese Name: 东莞
- Chinese Pinyin: Dōng Guǎn
- Location: South China
- Latitude: 22°39′-23°09′ N
- Longitude: 113°31′ -114°15′ E
- Elevation: 70 M (230 FT)
- Time Zone: (UTC+8)
- Area Code: 0769
- Population: 6.26 million
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Dongguan Ke Garden
Summary Keyuan (Ke Garden) is one of the four famous landscape gardens in Guangdong Province, and it is the representative of Lingnan (south China) garden architecture. Introduction Keyuan was built in 1850. It is one of the four famous landscape gardens in Guangdong Province in the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911... more about Dongguan Ke Garden
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