Situated in the south central area of GuangDong, the city of DongGuan is on the east bank of ZhuJiang estuary. It is 50 kilometers north to GuangZhou and 90 kilometers south to ShenZhen. By water it is 47 sea miles from Hongkong and 48 sea miles from Macau. It is an indispensible pass of the two cities GuangZhou and Hongkong on land or water. The land area of the city is 2465square kilo-miters, in September 1985, DongGuan was upgraded from town level to city level. In January 1988 it was be a prefecture-level city, governing 32 towns and districs, 594 villages. DongGuan has more than 1.5 million residents, 5 million emigrators. It alao has over 700,000 emigrators in Hongkong, Macau and Taiwan while over 200,000 in foreign countries. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in GuangDong. |