Dongguan is located in the south east of Guangdong Province, on the east bank of the Pearl River, Guangzhou to the north and Shenzhen to the south. It has 33 towns and districts under its jurisdiction, covering a total area of 2465 square kilometers, with a permanent population of 1.47 million. There are more than 700,000 Dongguan people living in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 200,000 overseas, which makes the city a famous overseas Chinese city. Within 100 km radius of Dongguan City, the population is well over 30 million, with an additional 10 million temporary migrant who came from Northern China working in the area. They help to radiate commercial and business information back to Northern China!

Dongguan is an ancient city at south of the Five Ridges, whose history dates back to 5000 years ago. More than 150 years ago, the destruction of opium in Humen marked the beginning of Chinese modern history. There are many scenic spots and historical sites in Dongguan, among which one is the opium-burning site in Humen during the Opium War in Qing Dynasty. Opium worth millions of dollars were ordered to be burned at sight by the Qing Government and a campaign of a ban on opium-smoking and trade started through whole China. Situated at the center of Dongguan City, Keyuan Garden built in the Xianfeng period in Qing Dynasty, is one of the four famous gardens in Guangdong Province.

Since the reform and opening to the outside world, Dongguan's national economy has developed continuously, rapidly and healthily. Dongguan has become a city whose economy develops most quickly in China with 25% annual growth for the last 15 years! Foreign investors in various manufacturing industries are well over 15,000 in numbers, including world renowned names such as Nestles, Dupont, Nokia, Duracell, Sumitomo, Esso Oil, Mabuchi, Samsung, V-Tech and many more. Added to another 50,000 foreign investors who set up factories and business in the Pearl-River-Delta, Dongguan City is the best strategic location for nationwide business connection and for business investment.
Dongguan is well equipped in its infrastructure and the transportation and communication are very convenient, with ample power supply. Humen port is a national first class port whose designed turnout is 6 million tones; Beijing to Kowloon and Guangzhou to Mei-Zhou and Shanto express railways go through the whole city; There are 5 airports in the range of 50-100 kilometers, and expressway, national road and network road are overlapped. The whole city has formed an interchange transportation network by connecting port, railway, airport, expressway, national road and network road. Since the opening to traffic of Humen Bridge, Dongguan has become a transportation center, which connects Guangzhou, Hong Kong and both sides of the Pearl River and Shenzhen and Zhuhai Special Economic Zone. A modern digital telecommunication network has been set up by taking use of programmed fiber optical transmission systems.

Dongguan is in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, with south Asian tropical oceanic climate, which is warm and shinny. The average yearly temperature is 22.80C, and the yearly average rainfall is 2074 mm. Most of the land is hill and alluvial plain, and the river outlet shoreline is 61 kilometers, which is best for agriculture exploitation. In Dongguan City alone, there are over 8,000 farms and agricultural enterprises that are hunger for new agricultural technology, products and services.



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