Foshan
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| City Seat | (}; }) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. The city has jurisdiction over an area of about 3,840 km² and a population of 5.4 million of which 1.1 million reside in the city proper (year 2000 figures).
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AdministrationThe prefecture-level city of Foshan administers 5 county-level divisions, all of which are districts.
Foshan is close to Guangzhou and considers its link with Guangzhou very important. A Guangzhou-Foshan metropolitan region is being formed. TransportationExternal linkFoshan Airport was once a regional airport with mixed usage (both military and domestic transport) since January 22, 1987, as it became a base of China United Airlines (CUA) in Guangdong Province. When CUA ceased domestic flights in November 1, 2002, Foshan Airport remained military service only. The airport resumed its regional airport status in 2005 when the regrouped CUA, which was partly purchaed by Shanghai Airlines, resumed domestic flight service. It is expected domestic flight linkage between Foshan and at least 10 Chinese cities including Beijing, Nanjing, Hanzhou, Yinchuan etc.Foshan is a main interchange for railway routes linking Guangzhou, Hong Kong and the western Guangdong Province. The inter-city through train service was extended from Guangzhous to Foshan since the 1990s. Internal linkBeing a prominent link to Guangzhou city, the Guangfo Line of the Guangzhou Metro, presently under construction, will connect the city to Guangzhou.Bus service is the major mode public transport inside the city of Foshan. EconomyAgricultureThere are Agricultural Model Districts (AMD) around the prefecture, such as Shunde Chencun AMD, and AMDs in Daili Town, Shatou Town and Locun Town in Nanhai, with a total area of about 9.4 km².The AMDs aims at providing an all-round environment for modern agriculture. Agricultural process is upgraded through technology, and sale service is incorporated with a new style tourism, that attracts target clients. The modern integrated practice mode resulted in the reputation of the largest base for wholesale, food production, storage and logistics of agricultural products in Guangdong Province. Manufacturing industriesFollowing Shenzhen and Guangzhou, Foshan is the third largest manufacturing base in the Pearl River Delta. Foshan used to have a strong State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) sector but its current economic strength lies in the privates firms and Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) in Shunde and Nanhai. The private firms contributed 56.12% of the industrial output while Hong Kong/ Macau/ Taiwan funded firms contributed 63.44% of export in Foshan in 2002.Key industries in Foshan include:
Development stragegyFoshan aims to become a manufacturing giant and the third largest city in Guangdong. It will make large-scale investment in the construction of the infrastructure such as transportation, energy. Urban development will focus on two central urban districts: the central urban group and Shunde urban group each with more than one million inhabitants.Tourism
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