Shunde District

Shunde (Chinese顺德 区/顺德 区, pinyin Shunde qū ) is a district of Foshan City in Guangdong Province, China. Externally Shunde acts as an independent town, lying there between the center of Shunde and the center of Chancheng, Foshan, the center is at the same time, but also an extensive rural areas.

Geography

Shunde is located in the southern part of the prefecture-level city of Foshan and is bordered to the north by the Chancheng District.

The climate is subtropical in Shunde and the average temperature ranges between 13.1 ° C in January and 28.7 ° C in July. With a rainfall of 1649.9 mm, it is one of the drier areas of Guangdong.

Population

In Shunde 1.11 million people ( 2002). It is the hometown of many overseas Chinese live.

Ethnic structure of the population Shunde's (2000)

At the census in 2000, Shunde had 1,694,152 inhabitants.

Economy

The GDP is 43.73 billion RMB ( 2002). Shunde is thus one of the richest administrative units at the county level in Guangdong and one (together with Nanhai, Dongguan and Zhongshan ) to the so-called four little dragons Guangdong.

Especially the electronic industry - - Since the beginning of China's reform, the economy developed rapidly in Shunde. Some larger Chinese companies as Rongsheng, Midea (美 的Meidi ) and Kelong have their headquarters here Shunde is the main center of the furniture trade in China.

Administrative divisions

The former independent city of Shunde was dissolved on 8 December 2002 and converted into the city Shunde district. It consists of four road districts and six large municipalities:

  • Road district Daliang (大 良 街道);
  • Road district Leliu (勒流 街道);
  • Road district, have attended (伦教 街道);
  • Road district Ronggui (容桂 街道);
  • Greater community Chencun (陈村镇);
  • Greater community Anzhen (均安镇);
  • Large village Xing Tan (杏坛 镇);
  • Greater community Longjiang (龙江 镇);
  • Greater community Lecong (乐从镇);
  • Greater community Beijiao (北滘镇).

Attractions

Worth seeing is mainly the Qinghui Garden (清 晖 园). In addition, there are several temples and other gardens and parks. One of them is the largest Pailou the world.

Sons and daughters

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