Guangdong

Guangdong is a coastal province in southern China, known for being one of the country's most populous and economically developed regions.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to a typhoon threat, the death of a former governor, and an expansion of a travel scheme with Hong Kong.

Latest on Guangdong

• I visited my family's ancestral home in Guangdong for the first time and found where our story began
• Former Guangdong governor Zhu Senlin, enforcer of southern reform, dies at 95
• Cathay Pacific cancels Hong Kong flights, Guangdong evacuates more than 20,000 as Typhoon Noul nears
• Storm Noul strengthens, forecast to enter East Sea and hit China's Guangdong
• Hong Kong to expand southbound travel scheme to all 21 Guangdong cities as demand surges
• ZTE and China Telecom Guangdong advance cross‑vendor IP network simulation pilots, paving the way for intelligent network operations
• Shanghai-born Zhu spent more than five decades in the southern province that neighbours Hong Kong.
• Zhu Senlin, a former Guangdong governor widely regarded as a key enforcer of the province’s economic transformation in China’s critical period of opening up in the 1990s, died on Monday aged 95, according to official media.
• Over a quarter of China’s ultra-wealthy concentrated in Beijing and Shanghai: report

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