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Guangdong Province Quiz

How much do you know about the Southern Chinese province Guangdong?
Part of the Chinese Provinces series
Quiz by camus
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Last updated: July 31, 2021
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First submittedMarch 26, 2021
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Capital
Guangzhou
Historical name for the province and/or capital
Canton
City that was a village in the 1950s but now has over 10 million people
Shenzhen
Mentioned city became China's first SEZ in 1979. What does SEZ mean?
Special Economic Zone
As a high-tech hub, Shen... is often compared to this area in California
Silicon Valley
Leader who famously toured the region in 1992
Deng Xiaoping
This company was briefly the world's top smartphone producer in 2020
Huawei
Tech company that offers the messenging services Wechat and QQ
Tencent
Nearby coastal special administrative cities
Hong Kong
Macau
Urban region of about 70 million people and 11 cities (including those above)
Greater Bay Area
Bordering sea
South China Sea
River system with a very populous and wealthy delta
Pearl River
Three subnational divisions in the world are more populous. All are in India. Name any.
Bihar | Maharashtra | Uttar Pradesh
The capital was an important port along this ancient trade route
Silk Road
"Guang" means expanse. What does "Guangdong" mean?
Eastern Expanse
Region to the west which also starts with "Guang"
Guangxi
Fruit with a rough and pinkish outside and fleshy inside
Lychee
This drug was traded through the capital, triggering a war in 1839
Opium
camus
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Level 78
Jul 30, 2021
#3: It is perhaps more correct to say that Shenzhen used to be several villages.

#5: Shenzhen used to be called the "factory of the world" and was a center of "dirty" industries. Nowadays, the city has a (relatively) clear sky, lots of green, and has become a high-tech (and e-mobility) hub.

For a long time, Shenzhen acted as a kind of supplier for the Silicon Valley. Foxconn produces iPhones for Apple there. The company gained notoriety when it spanned nets around its factories after suicidal workers had thrown themselves out of windows.

Thanks to its background in manufacturing (which is lacking around San Francisco), ideas can be realized very quickly in Shenzhen. While top unis like Stanford don’t quite exist there, companies invest generously in research and the huge start-up scene is eager to experiment.

#6: There are only two statues of Deng in all of China (or so I've read). One is in his hometown in Sichuan, the other is in Shenzhen, where he is revered to this day.

camus
+2
Level 78
Jul 30, 2021
#9: Guangdong cities profited hugely from their closeness to Hong Kong in the past. Businesspeople from there invested in the region and used it for cheap labor. Compared to (High-)Tech Shenzhen/Guangdong, Hong Kong is more of a financial hub. They supplement each other, to the delight of the central government.

However, Beijing has already made it clear that Hong Kong is declining in status. Shenzhen, on the other hand, has been declared a “model city” for all of China.

#11: The near-future goal of regional planners is to have an area where you can go from one end to the next in no more than an hour. Steps taken toward this goal include railway projects and several bridges. The longest bridge in the world, between Macau/Zhuhai and Hong Kong, has been completed in 2018.

cuotak
+1
Level 67
Apr 17, 2021
Maharashtra
camus
+1
Level 78
Apr 18, 2021
Sorry, fixed.
Mahkagh
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Level 78
Jul 31, 2021
Is "Greater Bay Area" a translated term? When the urban area was not referred to with Guangzhou, I had only ever heard it termed as "Pearl river delta" or similar.
camus
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Level 78
Aug 1, 2021
Greater Bay Area includes a larger territory than the Pearl River Delta (see the map on the Wikipedia article). The term has only been coined in recent years but you can already find many western articles about it. It was also mentioned a lot in a Shenzhen-themed book I recently read (a German one, though they used the English word).
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