Guangzhou currently maintains sister city agreements with the following foreign cities.
Twin towns and sister cities
Guangzhou
Guangzhou | Twin towns and sister cities
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who was don bradman?
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He was an Australian international cricketer.
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where was he born?
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Cootamundra, New South Wales (NSW).
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what is the climate like in the latter?
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Arid to semi arid climate with rainfall.
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what languages are spoken here?
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English, Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Greek.
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where is the fourth one commonly spoken?
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Guangzhou and its surrounding area in Southeastern China.
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was this place a center of any revolution?
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Yes, the Uprisings of 1895 and 1911.
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does it have a twin town ?
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Guangzhou Guilin Guiyang
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During the late Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou was the site of revolutionary attempts such as the Uprisings of 1895 and 1911 that were the predecessors of the successful Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty. The 72 revolutionaries whose bodies were found after the latter uprising are honored as the city's 72 Martyrs at the Huanghuagang ("Yellow Flower Mound") Mausoleum.
Guangzhou | Revolutions
Guangzhou currently maintains sister city agreements with the following foreign cities.
Guangzhou | Twin towns and sister cities
Jiamusi Jiangmen Jiangyin
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | J
Qingdao Qiqihar Qitaihe
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | Q
Foshan Fuzhou
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | F
Dalian Dandong Daqing
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | D
Zhangjiagang Zhanjiang Zhengzhou
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | Z
Twinning towns and cities is sometimes done for political purposes. The Hungarian city Gyöngyös was twinned with the Azerbaijani city of Shusha in 2013, signing the twinning agreement with representatives from the Azerbaijani government; Hungary recognises Shusha as part of Azerbaijan, even though since the end of the Karabakh War it has been controlled by the military forces of Armenia and the unrecognised Artsakh ("de jure" part of Azerbaijan). An attempt was made in 2003 by Preston city councillors in England to twin with the Palestinian town of Nablus in the name of solidarity.
Sister city | Political significance
Haikou Hami Hangzhou
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | H
Nanchang Nanjing Nanning
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | N
Amid the closing months of the Chinese Civil War, Guangzhou briefly served as the capital of the Republic of China after the taking of Nanjing by the PLA in April 1949. The People's Liberation Army entered the city on 14 October 1949. Amid a massive exodus to Hong Kong and Macau, the Nationalists blew up the Haizhu Bridge across the Pearl River in retreat. The Cultural Revolution had a large effect on the city with much of its temples, churches and other monuments destroyed during this chaotic period. The People's Republic of China initiated building projects including new housing on the banks of the Pearl River to adjust the city's boat people to life on land.
Guangzhou | People's Republic of China
Yangquan Yangzhou Yantai
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | Y
Hambantota is twinned with Guangzhou, China, since 2007.
Hambantota | Twin cities
In 2009 Gongqingcheng became a sister city of the Argentinian city of Marcos Juarez. The two cities formed their partnership in response to an invitation by the Chinese government to the President of the International Business Center for a Productive Argentina, Gustavo Biagiotti. After initial exchanges made by Mr. Biagiotti, official approval was obtained to perform the act of twinning during the Expo Central China 2009, which was held in Hunan. The event involved numerous mayors, prime ministers, ministers, and secretaries from both China and Argentina. The mayor of Marcos Juarez, Eduardo Raul Avalle, signed the twinning agreement on 22 September 2009.
Gongqingcheng | Twinning
Changchun Changji Changsha
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | C
Xi'an Xiamen
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | X
Siting on top of the memorial tomb of "72 Martyrs of Huanghuagang" (see Huanghuagang Uprising). The current one was re-built in 1981.
Replicas of the Statue of Liberty | Guangzhou
Jiujiang is twinned with: It is one of the Ten Great Towers of Jiangnan.
Jiujiang | Twin towns — Sister cities
Baoding Baotou Beihai
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | B
Macau Mudanjiang
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | M
Tacheng Taicang Taiyuan
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | T
Hangzhou is twinned with:
Hangzhou | Twin towns – sister cities
However, cities considered twinned by proximity do not necessarily match demographically, economically, or politically. In many historical cases, cities that grew into each other's space lost their individual identities, and the border or barrier originally separating them became almost irrelevant. An 1873 case of twin cities merging to become a united city is Budapest in Hungary, which began as two settlements (Buda and Pest) facing each other across the Danube at a strategic fording place along a trade route. In China, the three ancient cities of Hankou, Hanyang, and Wuchang, separated by the junction of the Yangtze and Hanjiang rivers, were joined in 1927 into the single entity of Wuhan.
Twin cities | Introduction
Weihai Weinan Wenzhou
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | W
Lanzhou Leshan Lhasa
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | L
Shijiazhuang's twin towns and sister cities are:
Shijiazhuang | Twin towns and sister cities
Peasant insurgents were supposed to throw the countryside into chaos, while workers should take over the county seats, and a general strike would paralyze Guangzhou. A separate communist faction was to capture Hainan island, and an army from the Hailufeng Soviet attack Huizhou, and then advance against Guangzhou. In the end, however, the communists in Guangzhou did not follow this plan. The conflict between Zhang Fakui and Li Jishen already broke out on 27 November, with the former capturing Guangzhou from the latter in surprise attack. Thereafter, however, Zhang moved most of his troops out of the city to resist Li's counter-attacks.
Guangzhou Uprising | Background
Sanmenxia Sanya Shanghai
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | S
The dead were buried together in one grave on the Yellow Flower Mound, a mound near where they fought and died which has lent its name to the uprising. After the Chinese revolution, a cemetery was built on the mound with the names of those 72 revolutionary nationalists. They were commemorated as the "72 martyrs." Some historians believe that the uprising was a direct cause of the Wuchang uprising, which eventually led to the Xinhai Revolution and the founding of the Republic of China. Among the martyrs who sacrificed is Revolutionary Lin Jue-min.
Second Guangzhou Uprising | Legacy
After the assassination of Sung Chiao-jen and Yuan Shihkai's attempts to remove the Nationalist Party of China from power, the leader of Guangdong Hu Hanmin joined the 1913 Second Revolution against him but was forced to flee to Japan with Sun Yat-sen after its failure. The city came under national spotlight again in 1917, when Prime Minister Duan Qirui's abrogation of the constitution triggered the Constitutional Protection Movement. Sun Yat-sen came to head the Guangzhou Military Government supported by the members of the dissolved parliament and the Southwestern warlords. The Guangzhou government fell apart as the warlords withdrew their support.
Guangzhou | Republic of China
On 27 April 1911, an uprising occurred in Guangzhou, known as the Second Guangzhou Uprising (辛亥廣州起義) or Yellow Flower Mound Revolt (黃花岡之役). It ended in disaster, as 86 bodies were found (only 72 could be identified). The 72 revolutionaries were remembered as martyrs. Revolutionary Lin Juemin (林覺民) was one of the 72. On the eve of battle, he wrote the legendary "A Letter to My Wife" (與妻訣別書), later to be considered as a masterpiece in Chinese literature.
1911 Revolution | Second Guangzhou Uprising
This is a list of places in China which have standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world), and while most of the places included are towns, the list also includes villages, cities, districts, and counties with similar links.
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | Introduction
The Canton Christian College (1888) and Hackett Medical College for Women (1902) were both founded by missionaries and now form part of Guangzhou's Lingnan. Since the opening up of China in the 1980s, there has been renewed interest in Christianity, but Guangzhou maintains pressure on underground churches which avoid registration with government officials. The Catholic archbishop Dominic Tang was imprisoned without trial for 22 years; however, his present successor is recognized by both the Vatican and China's Patriotic Church.
Guangzhou | Christianity
Jiaonan is twinned with:
Jiaonan | Twin towns — sister cities
Gifu Gotemba
List of twin towns and sister cities in Japan | G
Kaifeng Kaili Karamay
List of twin towns and sister cities in China | K
The National People's Congress approved a development plan for the Pearl River Delta in January 2009; on March 19 the same year, the Guangzhou and Foshan municipal governments agreed to establish a framework to merge the two cities. In 2014, Luogang merged into Huangpu and both Conghua and Zengcheng counties were upgraded to districts.
Guangzhou | People's Republic of China
Zhangjiajie is twinned with:
Zhangjiajie | Twin towns — Sister cities
Zhuzhou is twinned with:
Zhuzhou | Twin towns – sister cities
Gwangyang is twinned with:
Gwangyang | Twin towns – Sister cities
Ghent is twinned with:
Ghent | Twin towns – sister cities
Granville has been twinned with Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, at a distance of , since 1984. Granville is a founding member of the Douzelage, a unique town twinning association of 24 towns across the European Union. This active town twinning began in 1991 and there are regular events, such as a produce market from each of the other countries and festivals. Henry Haffray, initiator and founder of the douzelage was the first president of the "Granville partenaire européen" [Granville European partner] association, he was followed for more than a dozen years by Jean-Marc Julienne, then André Gendre and Pascale Vallée.
Granville, Manche | Twin towns - Sister cities
Since the 1980s, the city's close proximity to Hong Kong and Shenzhen and its ties to overseas Chinese have made it one of the first beneficiaries of China's opening up under Deng Xiaoping. Beneficial tax reforms in the 1990s have also helped the city's industrialization and economic development. The municipality was expanded in the year 2000, with Huadu and Panyu joining the city as urban districts and Conghua and Zengcheng as more rural counties. The former districts of Dongshan and Fangcun were abolished in 2005, merged into Yuexiu and Liwan respectively. The city acquired Nansha and Luogang. The former was carved out of Panyu, the latter from parts of Baiyun, Tianhe, Zengcheng, and an exclave within Huangpu.
Guangzhou | People's Republic of China
Incorporated into the Han Dynasty, Panyu became a provincial capital. In 226, it became the seat of Guang Prefecture, which gave it its modern name. The "Old Book of Tang" described Guangzhou as an important port in southern China. Direct routes connected the Middle East and China, as shown in records of a Chinese prisoner returning home from Iraq twelve years after his capture at Talas. Relations were often strained: Arab and Persian pirates sacked the city on October 30, 758 and came to an end under the revenge of Chinese rebel Huang Chao in 878, along with the city's Jews, Christians, and Parsis.
Guangzhou | Imperial China
Nagoya is twinned with five cities around the world: The sister city relationship with Nanjing in China was suspended on February 21, 2012, following public comments by Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura denying the Nanking Massacre.
Nagoya | Twin towns – Sister cities
Xi'an's twin towns and sister cities are:
Xi'an | International relations
Sagarejo Senaki
List of twin towns and sister cities in Georgia (country) | S
Goyang is twinned with:
Goyang | Twin towns – sister cities
Nanjing is twinned with: The sister city relationship with Nagoya in Japan was suspended on February 21, 2012, following public comments by Nagoya mayor Takashi Kawamura denying the Nanking Massacre.
Nanjing | Twin towns – sister cities
Beijing is twinned with the following regions, cities, and counties:
Beijing | Twin towns and sister cities
Soon, control of the city reverted to Li Jishen.
Guangzhou | Republic of China
Sun fled to Shanghai in November 1918 until the Guangdong warlord Chen Jiongming restored him in October 1920 during the Yuegui Wars. On 16 June 1922, Sun was ousted in a coup and fled on the warship Yongfeng after Chen sided with the Zhili Clique's Beijing government. In the following months Sun mounted a counterattack into Guangdong by rallying supporters from Yunnan and Guangxi, and in January established a government in the city for the third time. From 1923 to 1926 Sun and the Kuomintang used the city as a base to prosecute a renewed revolution in China by conquering the warlords in the north.
Guangzhou | Republic of China
Gyeongsan is twinned with:
Gyeongsan | Twin towns – sister cities
Gagny Gap La Garenne-Colombes
List of twin towns and sister cities in France | G
Aleppo Damascus Homs
List of twin towns and sister cities in Asia | Syria
"Guǎngzhōu" is the official romanization of the Chinese name . The name of the city is taken from the ancient "Guang Province" after it had become the prefecture's seat of government, which is how some other Chinese cities, including Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Fuzhou got their names. The character or —which also appears in the names of the provinces Guangdong and Guangxi, together called the Liangguang—means "broad" or "expansive" and refers to the intention to dispense imperial grace broadly in the region with the founding of county of Guangxin in the Han Dynasty. Before acquiring its current name, the town was known as Panyu (Punyü; ), a name still borne by one of Guangzhou's districts not far from the main city.
Guangzhou | Toponymy
Yueyang is twinned with:
Yueyang | Twin towns — sister cities
Gières is twinned with:
Gières | Twin towns
When it was under Armenian occupation, Hadrut was twinned with:
Hadrut | Twin towns – Sister cities
Huizhou is twinned with:
Huizhou | Twin towns — Sister cities
Wujiang has eight sister cities:
Wujiang District, Suzhou | Twin towns – sister cities
Pingdingshan, People's Republic of China is twinned with:
Pingdingshan | Twin towns — sister cities
Jeongeup is twinned with:
Jeongeup | Twin towns – sister cities
From 1996 to 2019 Thun was twinned with Gabrovo in Bulgaria.
Thun | Twin & sister towns
Qing-era Guangzhou had around 124 religious pavilions, halls, and temples. Today, in addition to the Buddhist Association, Guangzhou also has a Taoist Association, a Jewish community, as well as a history with Christianity, reintroduced to China by colonial powers.
Guangzhou | Religions
Sousse is twinned with:
Sousse | Twin towns – Sister cities
Gaziantep Gaziosmanpaşa Gebze Giresun
List of twin towns and sister cities in Turkey | G
Gelendzhik is twinned with:
Gelendzhik | Twin towns – sister cities
During his time at the Academy of Law and Political Science, Chen and his friends often used their vacations to return to Haifeng and promote their Self-Government Association (Zizhihui), trying to eradicate opium smoking, improving local grain depots, and creating nurseries for children. As the East River region was becoming more disorderly, the Governor-General (Zongdu) in Guangzhou gave the magistrate in Huizhou the power to execute prisoners without trial at the scene of the crime, leading to the arrest and execution of everyone in sight when the magistrate heard of a disturbance, once arresting a 13-year-old boy, of which his release was appealed successfully, but to no avail as the villagers discovered he had been executed the day before the appeal went through.
Chen Jiongming | Early revolutionary
In 1956, the Bureau of Education of Yuexiu District established the School of Huixin West Street in Dafo Temple. In 1966, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution; the Red Guards attacked Dafo Temple. Three copper statues of Grand Buddha were cut into pieces, but they escaped damage during the Cultural Revolution through the personal intervention of Zhou Enlai, who was the then Chinese Premier. According to the national policy of free religious belief, Dafo Temple was reopened in 1986. Five years later, Master Guangming () served as its abbot.
Dafo Temple (Guangzhou) | People's Republic of China
Huzhou is twinned with: Huzhou is well known as one of the birthplaces for silk cultivation. In 1958, a great number of silk, silk ribbon and uncarbonized tablets were found in the southern suburbs of Huzhou. Scientists from the Institute of Archaeology measured these silk products carefully and determined the age of the silk to date back 4700 years. Now, these silk pieces have become the greatest treasures of the Zhejiang Silk Museum.
Huzhou | Twin towns — Sister cities
By early 1911, Chen Jiongming was funneling his fellow revolutionaries from the East River district into Guangzhou. Chen's residence on Sihou street was their headquarters, the Siping School and the Ke Bao office were their munitions depots, Chen's quarters at the Provincial Assembly were used as an explosives depot, and Chen Dasheng's house was used as a staging point for setting fire to the Manchu quarters.
Chen Jiongming | Xinhai Revolution
Pudong is twinned with:
Pudong | Twin towns — sister cities
Gijón is twinned with:
Gijón | Twin towns/Sister cities
Daisen Dazaifu
List of twin towns and sister cities in Japan | D
Gyöngyös is twinned with:
Gyöngyös | Twin towns — Sister cities
Gan Yavne is twinned with:
Gan Yavne | Twin towns – sister cities
Southern China, namely cities in Guangdong Province, is the birthplace of "tong lau" and "qilou". They were built by wealthy Chinese merchants in the cities like Guangzhou and, with the aid of overseas Chinese, in emigrant market towns like Chikan, Kaiping. Locations in Guangzhou with "Qilou":
Tong lau | Guangdong
Its success led to the split of the KMT between Wuhan and Nanking and the purge of the communists in the April 12 Incident. Immediately afterwards Canton joined the purge under the auspice of Li Jishen, resulting in the arrest of communists and the suspension of left wing KMT apparatuses and labor groups. Later in 1927 when Zhang Fakui, a general supportive of the Wuhan faction seized Canton and installed Wang Jingwei's faction in the city, the communists saw an opening and launched the Guangzhou Uprising. Prominent communist military leaders Ye Ting and Ye Jianying led the failed defense of the city.
Guangzhou | Republic of China
Attribution This article incorporates information from the Chinese Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, and the Japanese Wikipedia.
Timeline of Guangzhou | References
In the resulting purges, many young communists were executed and the Guangzhou Soviet became known as the ""Canton Commune"", ""Guangzhou Commune"" or ""Paris Commune of the East""; it lasted only a short time at the cost of more than 5,700 communists dead and an equal number missing. Around 8 p.m. on 13 December, the Soviet consulate in Guangzhou was surrounded and all its personnel were arrested. In the accident the consulate diplomats Ukolov, Ivanov and others were killed. Ye Ting, the military commander, was scapegoated, purged and blamed for the failure, despite the fact that the obvious disadvantages of the communist force was the main cause of the defeat, as Ye Ting and other military commanders had correctly pointed out.
Guangzhou Uprising | History
Perugia is twinned with:
Perugia | Twin towns — sister cities
Garango is twinned with:
Garango | Twin towns – Sister cities
Giresun is twinned with:
Giresun | Twin towns - sister cities
The film takes place in Huizhou, Guangdong, China, October 1900. After failing to assassinate the governor-general by blowing up his mansion as part of the anti-Manchu Huizhou Uprising, revolutionary Shi Jianru is captured and executed. Guangzhou, Guangdong province, 1911: following other unsuccessful uprisings, Pan Dawei, deputy head of the Guangzhou department of the Tongmenghui, arrives by boat and smuggles weapons past customs officers. During a dinner party at the house of wealthy local trader Fang Hongzhi, head of the Guangxing business association, there is an assassination attempt on the Manchu Qing government's Marine Minister Li Zhun, which fails. Among the guests is Luo Zhonghuo, just arrived from Penang, Malaysia, who gets to know Fang's daughter, Huiru, also a revolutionary.
72 Heroes | Plot
After the Second Opium War, the factories were not rebuilt at their former site south of Guangzhou's old walled city but moved, first to Henan Island across the Pearl River and then to Shamian Island south of Guangzhou's western suburbs. Their former site is now part of .
Thirteen Factories | Introduction
Guangzhou Twin Towers () are two skyscrapers in Guangzhou, Guangdong. They are the two tallest skyscrapers in the city. The West Tower, Guangzhou International Finance Center, was designed by Wilkinson Eyre and the East Tower, Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre, by Kohn Pedersen Fox. Both towers are located at Zhujiang New Town, the city's central business district, in Tianhe District. The West Tower became operational in 2010 and the East Tower opened in 2016.
Guangzhou Twin Towers | Introduction
Gaziantep is twinned with:
Gaziantep | Twin towns — sister cities
After Emperor Wen of the Sui dynasty reunited China in 589 AD, he reorganized the administrative divisions of China, and established the capital of Guangzhou Prefecture at Nanhai County, in modern central Guangzhou. The government of Guangzhou was then built at the site of People's Park. For over a millennium, People's Park had been the site of Guangzhou or Guangdong's regional government. At the end of the Ming dynasty, after most of northern China was conquered by the Manchu Qing dynasty, the Ming prince Zhu Yuyue proclaimed himself the Shaowu Emperor in Guangzhou, with his palace located at People's Park.
People's Park (Guangzhou) | Imperial China
On December 1, 1927, a rally with over 50,000 participants was held to celebrate the establishment of Haifeng Soviet Government. On Jan. 1st 1928, troops from Nanchang City after Nanchang Uprising led by Dong Lang () Yan Changxi () met troops from Guangzhou City after Guangzhou Uprising in the square and successfully joined together. In 1986, the bronze statue of Peng Pai was set in the Red Square 57 years after his sacrifice for revolution.
Red Palace and Red Square | Origin and name
Farroupilha Florianópolis Fortaleza
List of twin towns and sister cities in Brazil | F
Galați Gănești Gheorgheni
List of twin towns and sister cities in Romania | G
Chongqing has sister city relationships with many cities of the world including:
Chongqing | Twin towns – sister cities
With the northern extension of the Northern Expedition, the center of the Great Revolution shifted from the Pearl River basin to the Yangtze River basin. On November 26, the Kuomintang Central Political Committee decided to move the capital from Guangzhou to Wuhan. In mid-December, most of the KMT central executive commissioners and national government commissioners arrived in Wuhan, set up the temporary joint conference of central executive commissioners and National Government commissioners, performed the top functions of central party headquarters and National Government, declared they would work in Wuhan on January 1, 1927, and decided to combine the towns of Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang into Wuhan City, called "Capital District".
Wuhan | Republic of China
The origin of the name is still uncertain, with 11 various explanations being offered, including that it may have referred to two local mountains. The city has also sometimes been known as Guangzhou Fu or Guangfu after its status as the capital of a prefecture. From this latter name, Guangzhou was known to medieval Persians such as Al-Masudi and Ibn Khordadbeh as Khanfu (). Under the Southern Han, the city was renamed Xingwang Fu (). The Chinese abbreviation for Guangzhou is "" (although the abbreviation on car license plates, as with the rest of the province, is ), after its nickname "City of Rice" ().
Guangzhou | Toponymy
Gyumri is twinned with:
Gyumri | Twin towns – sister cities
Palaiseau Paris Pau
List of twin towns and sister cities in France | P
Ramat Gan is twinned with:
Ramat Gan | Twin towns – sister cities
Nancy Nanterre Nantes
List of twin towns and sister cities in France | N