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Dongguan
东莞市 Tungkun; Tungkuan | |
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Prefecture-level city | |
Dongguan CBD Dongguan Avenue Humen Mountain Yinxian Mountain Resort Keyuan | |
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 Location of Dongguan in Guangdong | |
  Dongguan Location in China | |
| Coordinates (Dongguan government): 23°01′16″N 113°45′07″E / 23.021°N 113.752°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| County | 331 AD |
| City (County-level) | September 1985 |
| City (Prefecture-level) | 1 January 1988 |
| Municipal seat | Nancheng Subdistrict |
| Government | |
| • Type | Prefecture-level city |
| • Body | Dongguan Municipal People's Congress |
| • CCP Secretary | Liang Weidong |
| • Congress Chairman | Liang Weidong |
| • Mayor | Xiao Yafei |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Luo Zhaoqun |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 2,465 km2 (952 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,465 km2 (952 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 19,870.4 km2 (7,672.0 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Population (2020 census)[1] | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 10,466,625 |
| • Density | 4,200/km2 (11,000/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 10,466,625 |
| • Urban density | 4,200/km2 (11,000/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 65,655,622 |
| • Metro density | 3,300/km2 (8,600/sq mi) |
| GDP[2] | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 1.086 trillion US$ 168.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 103,284 US$ 16,010 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard Time) |
| Postal code | 523000 |
| Area code | 769 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-GD-19 |
| Licence plate prefixes | 粤S |
| City flower | Yulan magnolia Magnolia denudata |
| Website | www |
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 "Dongguan" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 东莞 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 東莞 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Dōngguǎn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cantonese Yale | Dùnggún or Dūnggún | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Tungkun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Eastern Bulrush(es)" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dongguan[a] is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the south, and the Pearl River to the west. It is part of the Pearl River Delta built-up (or metro) area with more than 65.57 million inhabitants as of the 2020 census spread over nine municipalities across an area of 19,870 square kilometers (7,670 sq mi).[1]
Dongguan's city administration is considered especially progressive in seeking foreign direct investment.[4][who?] Dongguan ranks behind only Shenzhen, Shanghai and Suzhou in exports among Chinese cities, with $65.54 billion in shipments. It is also home to one of the world's largest shopping malls, the New South China Mall,[5] which is seeing increased activity.[6] Although the city is geographically and thus culturally Cantonese in the Weitou form and as well as culturally Hakka in the prefectures of Fenggang and Qingxi, the majority of the modern-day population speaks Mandarin due to the large influx of economic migrants from other parts of China.[7] The city is home to several universities, including Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Guangdong Medical University and Dongguan University of Technology.
- ^ a b "China: Administrative Division of Guăngdōng / 广东省". Archived from the original on 2014-09-23. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ 广东省统计局、国家统计局广东调查总队 (August 2016). 《广东统计年鉴－2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7837-7. Archived from the original on 2017-12-22.
- ^ "Dongguan". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.
- ^ Yeung, Godfrey (2001). "Foreign Direct Investment and Investment Environment in Dongguan Municipality of Southern China". Journal of Contemporary China. 10 (26): 125–154. doi:10.1080/10670560125259. S2CID 9810364. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall Archived 2017-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, August 18, 2009, Retrieved February 9, 2010
- ^ Keegan, Matthew. "World's Biggest Shopping Mall in China Is No Longer a 'Ghost Mall'". Culture Trip. Archived from the original on 2018-09-21. Retrieved 2019-06-13.
- ^ Keegan, Matthew (16 February 2018). "Dongguan in the spotlight: hi-tech comeback for 'factory of the world'?". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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