75-548: (Redirected from Fort-Bayard ) Fort Bayard may refer to: Fort-Bayard, the city of Zhanjiang in Guangdong province, China Fort Bayard, New Mexico , an unincorporated community, United States Fort Bayard Historic District , a frontier fort in New Mexico, United States Fort Bayard National Cemetery , at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, United States Fort Bayard (Washington, D.C.) ,
150-433: A Han Chinese subgroup originating from Guangzhou and its satellite cities and towns (such as Hong Kong and Macau ). In a more general sense "Cantonese people" can refer to any Han Chinese people originating from or residing in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (collectively known as Liangguang ), or it may refer to the inhabitants of Guangdong province alone. Historically centered around Guangzhou and
225-508: A Principal Component Analysis, shows no clear difference between Cantonese from other Han Chinese groups, whether north or south, but shows significant separation from Xishuangbanna Dai (a Tai-speaking or Bai Yue group), implying that the Bai Yue component, while detectable, is the minor component in Cantonese ancestry. The Cantonese, while being primarily of Han Chinese ancestry, also possess, to
300-515: A colony of the Portuguese Empire in 1887. Macau was returned to China in 1999. By 2002, Macau had become one of the world's richest cities and by 2006, it had surpassed Las Vegas to become the world's biggest gambling centre. Macau is also a world cultural heritage site due to its Portuguese colonial architecture. The term "Cantonese" is used to refer to the native culture, language, and people who can trace their ancestral roots back to
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450-449: A lesser extent, a minority, i.e. Baiyue component in their heritage, and so differ slightly from other Han Chinese groups in skin tone, build, stature and a higher incidence of certain diseases such as nasopharyngeal cancer. Until the 19th century, Cantonese history was largely the history of Guangdong and Guangxi, collectively known as Liangguang or Guangnan. Throughout history, there have been multiple migrations of Han people from
525-541: A muddling of dialectical pronunciations of " Guangdong " (e.g., Hakka Kóng-tûng ). Although it originally and chiefly applied to the walled city of Guangzhou, it was occasionally conflated with Guangdong by some authors. Within Guangdong and Guangxi, Cantonese is considered the prestige dialect and is called baahk wá , [pàːk wǎː] ( 白話 ) which means "vernacular". It is also known as "Guangzhou speech" or Guangzhounese (廣州話, 广州话, Gwóngjāu wá). Other Yue peoples are sometimes labelled as "Cantonese" such as
600-455: A new level. In 2013, with 92 different key projects, the total investment reaches 306.9 million. In 2014, the GDP of Zhanjiang was 225.87 billion yuan. The growth of GDP was 10 percent. Industrial enterprises above designated size added value of 73.49 billion yuan. Fixed Investment was 102 billion yuan and the growth was about 30 percent. Also, the total retail sales of consumer goods
675-541: A prominent role in the agricultural economy of Zhanjiang. In 2014, the modern agriculture of Zhanjiang keeps increasing. There were 14 new leading enterprises of agriculture in the city. And the high-standard basic farmland increased 730 thousands mu of land. With the effect of Guangdong and Taiwan Agricultural Cooperation Project, Zhanjiang and Taiwan keeps increasing the depth of cooperation. The aspects of cooperation includes tropical products, fishery industry, animal husbandry and ecological agriculture. The government
750-625: A result, there are today many Cantonese communities throughout the world, including in Southeast Asia , the Pacific Islands , the Americas , the Caribbean and Western Europe , with Chinatowns commonly being established by Cantonese communities. There have been a large number of interracial marriages between Cantonese men and women from other nations (especially from Cuba, Peru, Mexico), as most of
825-601: A significant and immediate cultural shift at the time of Nanyue's establishment, especially in larger tombs, which began to deploy Han Chinese features such as ramps and compartmentalized coffins, and to contain traditional Han Chinese drinking vessels such as the hu, he , and ding as well as incense burners such as the xun lu . Buildings began to feature architectural elements from the Central Plains, including covered galleries, drains, stone lintels, and columnar bases. The Han aristocratic elite, however, did adopt features of
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#1732848922050900-450: A variety of discriminatory laws, including the prohibition of Chinese female immigrants. The relaxation of immigration laws after World War II allowed for subsequent waves of migration to the Western world from southeastern mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. As a result, Cantonese continues to be widely used by Chinese communities of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macau regional origin in
975-507: A very early and continual stream of Han settlers from the Central Plains since the Qin era. Mass migration of Han Chinese produced a demographic change in the south, leading to the absorption of Tai-speaking minority groups. Paternally, the Cantonese population show no genetic difference from other northern and southern Han Chinese populations - Cantonese are generally descended from Northern Chinese Han males, and their Y-chromosome haplotypes conform
1050-498: Is Hakka Chinese . Zhanjiang has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cwa), with short, mild, overcast winters and long, very hot, humid summers. The monthly daily average temperature in January is 16.2 °C (60.6 °F), and in July is 29.1 °C (84.2 °F). From April to September, rainfall is the heaviest and most frequent. The summer and winter temperatures are moderated due to
1125-466: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Zhanjiang Zhanjiang ( Chinese : 湛江 ; pinyin : Zhànjiāng ; Jyutping : Zaam3 Gong1 ; Leizhou Min : Tchiàm-kōng ), historically spelled Tsamkong and previously known as Guangzhouwan , is a city in Guangdong province, China. The prefecture-level city of Zhanjiang administers
1200-538: Is important to the development of steel industry in Zhanjiang. The port also services off shore support vessels plying to oil rigs and craft in the Wushi oil field. Sugarcane production was Zhanjiang's most prominent agricultural product in 2007: in 2006 it was 9,135,500 tons and it was 10,000,000 tons in 2007. Akoya cultured pearls, pineapples, bananas, papayas, seafood, farm-raised prawns and fish are other products that play
1275-531: Is made up by migrant workers from elsewhere in China that speak non-Cantonese variants of Chinese and Standard Chinese . Though in recent years it is slowly falling out of favour with the younger generation prompting fears in Cantonese people that the language may die out. Cantonese language's erosion in Guangzhou is due to a mix of suppression of the language and the mass migration of non-Cantonese speaking people in to
1350-707: Is treated as the sole language of the region. This is inaccurate as "Canton" itself technically only refers to the capital Guangzhou, and the Cantonese language specifically refers to only the Guangzhou dialect of the Yue Chinese languages. David Faure points out that there is no direct Chinese translation of the English term "Cantonese". People living in Guangdong and Guangxi may speak other Yue dialects or dialects from other Chinese language groups such as Mandarin , Min , Hakka , and Pinghua . The English name "Canton" derived from Portuguese Cantão or Cidade de Cantão ,
1425-409: Is trying to improve the platform of cooperation and construct more test sites for cooperative agricultural experiments. Industrial economy to make a breakthrough, a marked increase in the number of units. Zhanjiang in 2007 of all industrial output value of 112.134 billion yuan, up 17.1 percent, a growth rate of nearly four-year high of 15.3 billion net increase over the previous year. In 2007
1500-720: The British Empire did in Hong Kong's New Territories and as the Germans did in the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory, as the territory of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan . The local population fled before the arrival of the French, so upon French invitation, Cantonese peasants from north of Leizhou came to repopulate the empty French possession, thus the local language of communication was changed to Yue Chinese . The French wanted to develop
1575-609: The Ningpo massacre after the defeat of Portuguese pirates. The First (1839–1842) and Second Opium Wars (1856–1860) led to the loss of China's control over Hong Kong and Kowloon , which were ceded to the British Empire . Macau also became a Portuguese settlement . Between 1855 and 1867, the Punti–Hakka Clan Wars caused further discord in Guangdong and Guangxi. The third plague pandemic of 1855 broke out in Yunnan and spread to
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#17328489220501650-459: The Pearl River outside Canton, merchants traded goods such as silk , porcelain ("fine china") and tea , allowing Guangzhou to become a prosperous city. Links to overseas contacts and beneficial tax reforms in the 1990s have also contributed to the city's ongoing growth. Guangzhou was named a global city in 2008. The migrant population from other provinces of China in Guangzhou was 40 percent of
1725-830: The South China Sea . It is on the eastern coast of the Leizhou Peninsula . The spoken language in Potou District and other districts is Yue Chinese brought by Cantonese peasants that trace their ancestry to rural Guangdong during the French occupation of downtown while the Min speaking majority fled before the French arrived. Leizhou Min is the prestige language spoken in Xiashan District , Mazhang District , Xuwen County , Leizhou City , etc. The dialect in Lianjiang County
1800-564: The Taishanese people ( 四邑粵人 ; sei yāp yuht yàhn ), even though Taishanese ( 台山話 ) has low intelligibility to Standard Cantonese . Some literature uses neutral terminology such as Guangdongese and Guangxiese to refer to people from these provinces without the cultural or linguistic affiliations to Cantonese. Cantonese peoples are predominantly of Han Chinese ancestry and lineage with various local genetic clusters suggesting regional language-based endogamy . The Cantonese originate from
1875-467: The Taishanese people who speak Taishanese , may or may not be considered Cantonese. The Hakka and Teochew people who also reside in Guangdong are usually differentiated from the Cantonese as they speak non-Yue Chinese languages. "Cantonese" has been generally used to describe all Chinese people from Guangdong since "Cantonese" is commonly treated as a synonym with "Guangdong" and the Cantonese language
1950-1450: The " Zhanjiang Eight ", are as follows: Football is the most popular sport in the city. The Zhanjiang Olympic Main Stadium , which has a capacity of 40,000 and opened in 2015, is the largest sports venue by capacity in Zhanjiang. Quan Hong Chan won 2 more gold medals in Paris Olympics 2024 women’s 10 metres diving. Quan Hong Chan won the gold medal in women’s diving in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic games. Direct-administered municipalities . Sub-provincial cities as provincial capitals . Separate state-planning cities . Special economic-zone cities . Open coastal cities . Prefecture capital status established by Heilongjiang Province and not recognized by Ministry of Civil Affairs. Disputed by Oroqen Autonomous Banner , Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia as part of it. Only administers islands and waters in South China Sea and have no urban core comparable to typical cities in China. The claimed province of Taiwan no longer have any internal division announced by Ministry of Civil Affairs of PRC, due to lack of actual jurisdiction. See Template:Administrative divisions of Taiwan instead. Cantonese people The Cantonese people ( 廣府人 ; 广府人 ; gwong fu jan ; Gwóngfú Yàhn ) or Yue people ( 粵人 ; 粤人 ; jyut jan ; Yuht Yàhn ), are
2025-400: The Bai Yue culture, including the use of feathered headdresses as represented on Nanyue cauldrons, in order to bolster their authority amongst the indigenous people in the new hybrid Han-Yue polity. The Nanyue kingdom, which was led by a Han aristocracy and adopted Han bureaucratic structures, and which adopted a policy of assimilation and fusion with the native Bai Yue, then went on to become
2100-526: The Cantonese migrants were men. As a result, there are many Afro-Caribbeans and South American people of Cantonese descent including many Eurasians. Unlike the migrants from Fujian , who mostly settled in Southeast Asia , many Cantonese emigrants also migrated to the Western Hemisphere , particularly the United States , Canada , Australia and New Zealand and Burma. Many Cantonese immigrants into
2175-616: The Cantonese themselves, and the other dialect groups of Guangdong during the Tang dynasty including the Hakka and the Teochew. Waves of migration and intermarriage meant that the indigenous populations of both Guangxi and Guangdong provinces were either assimilated or displaced, but some native groups like the Zhuangs remain. One notable migration occurred in the aftermath of the deadly An Lushan rebellion in
2250-504: The Central Plains into the region that is now Southeastern and Southern China. The first Chinese presence in Guangdong can be traced to the conquest by the Qin general Zhao Tuo and his subsequent establishment of the Nanyue kingdom, a hybrid Han-Yue polity as an independent state. There was a second wave of migration during the Han dynasty during the troubled reign of the usurper Wang Mang. However, it
2325-691: The China Railway Corporation Yuehai Railway . There are two railway stations in Zhanjiang, namely Zhanjiang railway station and Zhanjiang West railway station : Zhanjiang Railway Station belongs to Lizhan Railway , Luozhan Railway and Hezhan Railway; Zhanjiang West Railway Station belongs to Yuehai Railway and Shenzhan High-speed Railway . National Highway 207 , National Highway 228 and National Highway 325 pass through Zhanjiang. G15 Shenhai Expressway Maozhan section, G75 Yuzhan Expressway and G75 Zhanxu Expressway pass through Zhanjiang. The well-known tourist attractions,
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2400-469: The French head of state. Upon recovering the territory from the French, the Republic of China government decided to rename Kouang-Tchéou-Wan. The area was historically under the jurisdiction of Zhanchuan county, with a Zhanchuan customs post on the eastern island of the territory. As "Zhanjiang" was a historical variant of "Zhanchuan", it was decided to name the city "Zhanjiang". Following the establishment of
2475-458: The Han Chinese soldiers, conscripts, and laborers under Zhao Tuo's command were incorporated into the Nanyue kingdom and ordered to mix with the local inhabitants. Like the founder Zhao Tuo, the aristocratic elite and military class of the newly formed Nanyue state were of Central Plains origin and mediated the transmission of Han culture to the local inhabitants. Grave goods and burial pits show
2550-642: The Leizhou peninsula, establishing colonies during the Song empire. They soon formed the Leizhou peninsula's linguistic and ethnic majority, while others like the Baiyue, Cantonese, Tanka, foreigners lived on the coast of the peninsula. The region served as a small fishing port when it was occupied by the French in 1898. The next year, the French forced the Chinese to lease a small enclave of Zhanjiang to them for 99 years (until 1997), as
2625-500: The Liangguang region via Guangxi, killing thousands and spreading via water traffic to nearby Hong Kong and Macau. The turmoil of the 19th century, followed by the political upheaval of the early 20th century, compelled many residents of Guangdong to migrate overseas in search of a better future. Up until the second half of the 20th century, the majority of overseas Chinese emigrated from two provinces of China; Guangdong and Fujian . As
2700-581: The People's Republic in 1949, Zhanjiang developed new importance. From 1957, Zhanjiang has developed into a major modern port serving southern China, usable by ships of up to 50,000 tons. In 1984 Zhanjiang was designated one of the "open" cities of China, where the central government invited foreign investment; this spurred the city's further industrial development. It has shipyards and engineering works; automobile, electrical-appliance, and textile plants; and sugar refineries, flour and rice mills, and chemical works. In
2775-722: The Qing Empire in 1895 let to its naming as the "cradle of the Xinhai Revolution". Revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen was born in Zhongshan , Guangdong. Hong Kong was where he developed his thoughts of revolution and was the base of subsequent uprisings, as well as the first revolutionary newspaper. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary army was largely made up of Cantonese, and many of the early revolutionary leaders were also Cantonese. Cantonese people and their culture are centered in Guangdong, Eastern Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macau. Guangzhou,
2850-412: The South China Sea. The Port of Zhanjiang is one of the finest deep water ports in China . Its historical name was Guangzhouwan . It is the southernmost port on the coast of mainland China and serves as a shipping outlet for much of Southwest China. The port of Zhanjiang, built in 1956, was the first modern port designed and developed after the founding of the People's Republic of China and serves as
2925-446: The Tang dynasty, creating a new local identity among the Liangguang peoples. The origin of the Cantonese people is thus said to be Han people from the Central Plains who migrated to Guangdong and Guangxi in multiple successive waves of settlement while it was still inhabited by Baiyue peoples. During the early 1800s, conflict occurred between Cantonese and Portuguese pirates in the form of
3000-451: The Tang dynasty, which led to a massive southward migration by people from the Tang heartland into the Panyu area, causing a 75% increase in the population on household registers. Unsurprisingly, the Cantonese often call themselves "people of Tang" ( 唐人 ; tòhng yàhn ). This is because Han immigration and the intermarriage with and acculturation of indigenous tribes reached a critical mass during
3075-678: The United States became railroad labourers, while many in South America were brought in as coolies . Cantonese immigrants in the United States and Australia participated in the California Gold Rush and the Australian gold rushes of 1854 onwards, while those in Hawaii found employment in sugarcane plantations as contract labourers. These early Cantonese immigrants variously faced hostility and
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3150-672: The Western Hemisphere, and has not been supplanted by the Mandarin -based Standard Chinese . A large proportion of the early migrants also came from the Siyi region of Guangdong and spoke Taishanese. The Taishanese variant is still spoken in American Chinese communities, by the older population as well as by more recent immigrants from Taishan, in Jiangmen , Guangdong. Cantonese uprising against
3225-399: The area. Because of its tradition of usage in music, cinema, literature and newspapers, this form of Cantonese is a cultural mark of identity that distinguishes Cantonese people from speakers of other varieties of Chinese, whose languages are prohibited to have strong influences under China's Standard Mandarin policy. The pronunciation and vocabulary of Cantonese has preserved many features of
3300-455: The broader group of Yue languages and dialects spoken in Guangdong and Guangxi, although it is used more specifically to describe Gwóngjāu wah ( 廣州話 ), the prestige variant spoken in Guangzhou . Gwóngjāu wah is the main language used for education, literature and media in Hong Kong and Macau. It is still widely used in Guangzhou, despite the fact that a large proportion of the city's population
3375-517: The capital of Guangdong, has been one of China's international trading ports since the Tang dynasty. During the 18th century, it became an important centre of the emerging trade between China and the Western world, as part of the Canton System . The privilege during this period made Guangzhou one of the top three cities in the world. Operating from the Thirteen Factories located on the banks of
3450-566: The capital situated at modern-day Guangzhou. The people of Liangguang remained autonomous until formally incorporated into the Han dynasty in 111 BC, following the Han–Nanyue War . Incorporation into Han territory Liangguang was incorporated into the Han dynasty in 111 BC, following the Han–Nanyue War . From this point on, it was directly administered by the Han Empire. Han Empire During
3525-416: The city of Guangzhou . Their influence has spread across the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. There are cultural, economic, political, generational and geographical differences in making "Cantonese-ness" in and beyond Guangdong and Guangxi, with the interacting dynamics of migration, education, social developments and cultural representations. The term "Cantonese language" is sometimes used to refer to
3600-409: The city's industrial enterprises above designated size reached 714, 71 more than the year before, industrial output value of over 100 million of the 132 enterprises. Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Development Zone was founded in 1984. Its total planned area is 9.2 km (3.6 sq mi). The zone has a very good location for transportation. It is very convenient to get to the airport,
3675-548: The city's total population in 2008. Most of them are rural migrants and they speak only standard Chinese. Hong Kong and Macau are two of the richest cities in the world in terms of GDP per capita and are autonomous SARs (Special Administrative Regions) that are under independent governance from China. Historically governed by the British and Portuguese empires respectively, colonial Hong Kong and Macau were increasingly populated by migrant influxes from mainland China, particularly
3750-758: The development of action-comedy genre exemplified in movies such as the God of Gamblers , the pioneering of the comedy-horror genre seen in Mr Vampire , the popularization Chinese cultivation fantasy fiction genres as seen in cult classics and experimental movies rich in special effects such as Chinese Ghost Story and Zu Warriors from Magic Mountain , and leading the way for the use of complex choreography and stunts through Jackie Chan movies such as Police Story . Recent films include Kung Fu Hustle , Shaolin Soccer , Infernal Affairs and Ip Man 3 . Cantonese cuisine
3825-532: The distribution seen in all other Han subgroups. Maternally, both southern natives and northern Han Chinese women contributed to the Cantonese gene pool. As a whole, the Cantonese show predominant Han Chinese ancestry, with their Han Chinese ancestry more pronounced on the patriline than on the matriline. This is in contrast to the Pinghua and Tanka population, who both show the reverse pattern. Whole-exome sequencing data of Hong Kong Cantonese, when subject to
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#17328489220503900-534: The early 1990s a new rail line was completed, linking Zhanjiang with Guangzhou , the provincial capital. The line was later extended to Hai'an, at the southernmost tip of Leizhou Peninsula , where trains could be transported by Guangdong–Hainan Ferry (part of the Guangdong–Hainan Railway ) across the Hainan Strait to Haikou city. Zhanjiang is to the southwest of the city of Guangzhou on an inlet of
3975-582: The headquarters for the People's Liberation Army Navy 's South Sea Fleet . The Zhanjiang Port is one of the eight major ports in China, with an annual throughput of more than 2,600 million tons. As a natural port, it has a depth of approximately 605 kilometers (376 mi) and three islands outside to support. The port allows easy access to the ocean from provinces in South and West China, and also allows Zhanjiang to be open to navigation with more than 100 countries. It
4050-620: The influence of the nearby ocean. Zhanjiang has direct jurisdiction over nine county-level divisions: Zhanjiang serves as headquarters of the South Sea Fleet of the People's Liberation Army Navy . It is also home base to the 1st [ zh ] and 2nd Marine Brigades. Zhanjiang is a port city and trade center with a diversified industrial base, including a shipyard , textile plants, sugar refineries. plants producing automobiles, chemicals and electrical appliances as well as rice mills. From 2012 to 2014, economy of Zhanijang grew to
4125-476: The more prominent being Lingnan architecture , Lingnan school of painting , Canton porcelain , Cantonese opera , Cantonese music , among many others. Architecture Cantonese architecture or Lingnan architecture favors pale colors such as white and grey-green, demonstrates straight rather than curved roof ridges and the use of "woerlou or omega-shaped structures" at the ends, and employs open structures such as balconies, skylights and verandas to accommodate
4200-446: The national highway G325 as well as the port. The major industries in the zone including automobile assembly, biotechnology and computer software. The steel industry is developing during 2010 to 2013. The large-scale project of iron, steel and petrochemical began to construct in 2013. This project is aimed at promoting the local economy by producing 15 million metric tons of crude oil and 1 million tons of ethylene annually when
4275-567: The nearby Guangdong Province. For that reason, the culture of Hong Kong and Macau became a mixture of Cantonese and Western influences, sometimes described as "East meets West". Hong Kong Island was first colonised by the British Empire in 1842 with a population of 7,450; however, it was in 1898 that Hong Kong became a British colony , when the British also colonised the New Territories (which constitute 86.2% of Hong Kong's modern territory). It
4350-531: The official language of the Tang dynasty with elements of the ancient Yue language . Written Cantonese is very common in manhua , books, articles, magazines, newspapers, online chat, instant messaging, internet blogs and social networking websites. Anime , cartoons and foreign films are also dubbed in Cantonese. Some videogames such as Sleeping Dogs , Far Cry 4 , Grand Theft Auto III and Resident Evil 6 have substantial Cantonese dialogues. Cantonese people have created various schools or styles of arts, with
4425-504: The operation of the steel industry activate in 2017. The expected output of the project is near 300 billion yuan which will stimulate the development of economy of Zhanjiang notably. The main market of the steel industry will focus South China and Southeast Asia. But the protect of environment also becomes an important issue during the growth of industry. 8% of 50 billion yuan total investment in this project will be used to environmental protection and energy saving. BASF announced
4500-538: The port, which they called Fort-Bayard , to serve southern China, in parts where France had exclusive rights to railway and mineral development. Their efforts, however, were hindered by the poverty of the surrounding land. The French controlled the small enclave until 1943, when the Japanese occupied the area during World War II . At the end of the war, the enclave was briefly ceded to the French before being formally returned to China in 1946 by General Charles de Gaulle , then
4575-437: The previous 12 years. In 2014, Zhanjiang constructed a French-style street with the theme of travel and leisure. The project not only tried to protect and renew old French-style buildings, but also would lead the development of the city's fashion business. The whole street was separated into five areas. They are respectively shopping area, food area, culture are, special commerce area and show of art area. According to statistics,
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#17328489220504650-506: The region in 214 BC and later, after the collapse of the Qin empire, founded the independent kingdom of Nanyue in 204 BC. Zhao Tuo's retinue included hundreds of thousands of predominantly male Qin conscripts, and he is recorded as petitioning the Qin Emperor for 30,000 wives from the Central Plains for his restless soldiers. Following the collapse of central authority in the Qin Empire,
4725-501: The start of a US$ 10 billion investment project in November 2019. A ″Verbund″ site for the production of engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethane is expected to be operational by 2022. The site would be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium. In 2007, the total value of retail sales of consumer goods in Zhanjiang totaled 38.216 billion yuan, an increase of 19.5% over
4800-484: The strongest state on the southern periphery of the Han, with many neighboring kingdoms declaring their allegiance to Nanyue rule. Zhao Tuo took the Han territory of Hunan and defeated the Han dynasty's first attack on Nanyue, later annexing the kingdom of Minyue in the east and conquering Âu Lạc , Northern Vietnam, in the west in 179 BC. The greatly expanded Nanyue kingdom included the territories of modern-day Guangdong, Guangxi and Northern Vietnam (Tonkin), with
4875-475: The surrounding Pearl River Delta , the Cantonese people established the Cantonese language as the dominant one in Hong Kong and Macau during their 19th century migrations within the times of the British and Portuguese colonial eras respectively. Cantonese remains today as a majority language in Guangdong and Guangxi, despite the increasing influence of Mandarin. Speakers of other Yue Chinese dialects, such as
4950-640: The tropical climate in the south. Buildings are also generally taller than in the north. It also features narrow structures known as "cold alleys" to promote the increase of windspeed, and thus the cooling and ventilation of buildings. Cantopop during its early glory had spread to mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Well-known Cantopop singers include Andy Lau , Aaron Kwok , Joey Yung , Alan Tam , Roman Tam , Anita Mui , Danny Chan , Leslie Cheung , Jacky Cheung , Leon Lai , Sammi Cheng and Coco Lee , many of whom are of Cantonese or Taishanese origin. The Hong Kong movie industry
5025-424: The troubled period of Wang Mang 's reign in the Han dynasty (206BC–220AD), there were influxes of Han Chinese migrants into Guangdong and Guangxi, western coast of Hainan, Annam (now Northern Vietnam) and Eastern Yunnan. 4th-12th century AD During the 4th–12th centuries, yet more waves of Han Chinese people from the central plains migrated and settled in the South of China. This gave rise to peoples, including
5100-758: The visitor reached 110,000 people during Christmas 2014. Those visitors directly brought 300 million yuan combustion to the street. The city is served by the Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport ( IATA : ZHA , ICAO : ZGZJ ). There are five railways passing through Zhanjiang, namely the China Railway Corporation Lizhan Railway , the China Railway Corporation Shenzhan Railway , the China Railway Corporation Luozhan Railway , and
5175-409: The whole of Leizhou Peninsula , facing Haikou city of Hainan across the Qiongzhou Strait . As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,981,236 (6,994,832 in 2010) whom 1,931,455 lived in the built-up (or metro) area consisting of four urban districts: Chikan , Xiashan , Potou and Mazhang . In 2007, the city was named China's top ten livable cities by Chinese Cities Brand Value Report, which
5250-487: The world. Macau natives are known as the Tanka people . A dialect similar to Shiqi , originating from Zhongshan in Guangdong, is also spoken in the region. Parts of Macau were first loaned to the Portuguese by China as a trading centre in the 16th century, with the Portuguese required to administer the city under Chinese authority. In 1851 and 1864, the Portuguese Empire occupied the two nearest offshore islands Taipa and Coloane respectively and Macau officially became
5325-407: Was 116 million dollars with growth of 13.e percent. The government believes that the GDP of Zhanjiang will be double on 2017 to achieve 400 billion and the speed of GDP growth will stay nearly 12 percent. With the opening up of the Wushi oil field in the South China sea, off the coast of Zhanjiang in 2016, the city has assumed further importance in the oil and gas exploration activities in
5400-427: Was during this period that migrants from China entered, mainly speaking Cantonese, the prestige variety of Yue Chinese , as a common language. During the following century of British rule, Hong Kong grew into a hub of Cantonese culture and has remained as such since the handover in 1997 . Today Hong Kong is one of the world's leading financial centres and the Hong Kong dollar is the thirteenth most-traded currency in
5475-527: Was only under much later dynasties such as the Jin dynasty , the Tang dynasty , and the Song dynasty , when major waves of Han Chinese began to migrate south into Guangdong and Guangxi, that the region acquired the cultural characteristics that last until the present day. Formation of Nanyue kingdom What is now Guangdong and later Guangxi, was first brought under Qin influence by a general named Zhao Tuo , who conquered
5550-536: Was released at 2007 Beijing Summit of China Cities Forum. During the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC), the area belonged to Xiang Shire. The imperial government of the Han dynasty (206 BC−220 AD) set Xuwen County as the administrator of the whole Leizhou Peninsula . It was one of the earliest departure points on the Maritime Silk Road . It was a city port soon after. Great numbers of Putian colonists settled in
5625-439: Was the third-largest movie industry in the world (after Hollywood and Bollywood ) for decades throughout the 20th century, with Cantonese-language films viewed and acclaimed around the world for its innovative style. Cantonese popular culture through the medium Hong Kong cinema has been responsible for pioneering the development of new genres and styles and paving the path for the rest of Chinese cinema. These innovations include
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