On Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 5:57:28 AM UTC+8, David P. wrote:
> Guangzhou
>
> Located on the Pearl River about 75 mi NNW of Hong Kong &
> 90 mi N of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200
> years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road,
> and continues to serve as a major port and transportation
> hub, as well as one of China's 3 largest cities. Long the
> only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders,
> Guangzhou was captured by the British during the First Opium War.
> No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to
> other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to
> serve as a major transshipment port. Due to a high urban
> population and large volumes of port traffic, Guangzhou is
> classified as a Large-Port Megacity, the largest type of port-city
> in the world. As of 2020, Guangzhou Baiyun Int'l Airport, the
> major airport of Guangzhou, was the world's busiest airport by
> passenger traffic.
>
> Guangzhou is at the heart of the most-populous built-up metro area
> in Guangdong, which extends into the neighboring cities of Foshan,
> Dongguan, Zhongshan, Shenzhen and part of Jiangmen, Huizhou, Zhuhai
> and Macao, forming the largest urban agglomeration on Earth with
> approx. 47.6 million residents and part of the Pearl River Delta
> Economic Zone. Administratively, the city holds subprovincial
> status and is one of China's nine National Central Cities. In the
> late 90s and early 00s, nationals of sub-Saharan Africa who had
> initially settled in the Middle East and SE Asia moved in
> unprecedented numbers to Guangzhou in response to the 1997/98
> Asian financial crisis. The domestic migrant population from other
> provinces of China in Guangzhou was 40% of the city's total population
> in 2008. Together with Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, Guangzhou has
> one of the most expensive real estate markets in China. As of the
> 2020 census, the registered population of the city's expansive
> administrative area was 18,676,605 individuals (up to 47% from the
> previous census in 2010) whom 16,492,590 lived in 9 urban districts
> (all but Conghua and Zengcheng).
>
> In modern commerce, Guangzhou is best known for its annual Canton Fair,
> the oldest and largest trade fair in China. For three consecutive years
> (2013–15), Forbes ranked Guangzhou as the best commercial city in
> mainland China. Guangzhou is highly ranked as an Alpha- (global
> first-tier) city together with San Francisco and Stockholm. It is a
> leading financial centre in the Asia-Pacific region and ranks 21st
> globally in the 2020 Global Financial Centres Index. As an important
> international city, Guangzhou has hosted numerous international and
> national sporting events, the most notable being the 2010 Asian Games,
> the 2010 Asian Para Games, and the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. The
> city hosts 65 foreign representatives, making it the third major city
> to host more foreign representatives than any other cities in China
> after Beijing and Shanghai. As of 2020, Guangzhou ranks 10th in the
> world and 5th in China (after Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen)
> for the number of billionaire residents by the Hurun Global Rich List.
>
> Guangzhou is a major centre of research and innovation in the
> Asia-Pacific with a high level of scientific research output,
> ranking 14th globally, 6th in the Asia-Pacific and 4th in China
> (after Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing), and is home to many of china's
> most prestigious universities, including Sun Yat-sen University, South
> China U. of Technology, Jinan U., South China Normal U., South China
> Agricultural U., Guangzhou U., Southern Medical U., Guangdong U. of
> Technology, Guangzhou Medical U., Guangzhou U. of Chinese Medicine.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou

Guangzhou is indeed ranked no.10 in the world in 2020 and no.5 in China for the number of billionaire residents in the world by the Hurun Global Rich List. A commercial visit to its well-known annual Canton trade in Guangzhou not long ago showed that Guangzhou has thousands and thousands of businesses and trades for a variety of industries connected up to showcase their products and services to the world. They even have many shipping agents in different corner of the huge Canton fair to check in your purchases and your packed goods and ship them instantly for you by your choice of airfreight or sea freight to your country. The rows and rows of food and entertainment spots across all the cities of Guangzhou really razzle-dazzle millions of tourists and business travelers to unwind and entertain in their visits to all the cities of Guangzhou. There are thousands of wonderful pictures of Guangzhou can be found in the internet. But a visit is seeing is believing.