There are 2 1 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong province, which are divided into four regions: Pearl River Delta, East Guangdong, West Guangdong and North Guangdong.
Pearl River Delta: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Zhaoqing and Huizhou.
Eastern Guangdong: Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei
Western Guangdong: Zhanjiang, Maoming and Yangjiang
Northern Guangdong: Shaoguan, Qingyuan, Yunfu, Meizhou and Heyuan
Among the cities under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou is a national central city, Shenzhen is a city under separate state planning, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou are special economic zones, and Guangzhou and Zhanjiang are the first batch of coastal open cities in China.
20 county-level cities: Lechang, Nanxiong, Wuchuan, Lianjiang, Leizhou, Sihui, enping city, Taishan, Kaiping, Heshan, Huazhou, Xinyi, Gaozhou, xingning city, Lufeng, Yang Chun, yingde city, Lianzhou, Puning and luoding city.
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Guangdong, whose name evolved from Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is called "Guangdong" for short. Guangzhou, the provincial capital, is a coastal province at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. Located in the south of Nanling and on the coast of the South China Sea, it borders Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and faces Hainan across the sea.
Since 1989, Guangdong's GDP has been ranked first in the country, becoming the largest economic province in the country, accounting for 1/8 of the total national economy, reaching the level of upper-middle-income countries? , the level of moderately developed countries? . Guangdong's comprehensive economic competitiveness ranks first in the country? .
In 20 16, the number of high-tech enterprises in Guangdong reached 19857, ranking first in the country. PCT international patent applications lead the country 15 years? .
Nine cities in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta will join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to build Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, becoming one of the four largest Greater Bay Area cities in the world alongside new york Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo Bay Area? . Guangdong has formed a world-class coastal metropolitan belt led by the Pearl River Delta world-class bay area urban agglomeration and supported by Shantou-Chaozhou urban agglomeration and Zhanmao-Yangcheng urban agglomeration.
References:
Guangdong (Administrative Region of China) _ Baidu Encyclopedia