Zhuhai air-conditioner maker

becomes global giant

By Mark O´Neill

Twenty years ago, it was a small-town firm,

in Zhuhai – the neighbouring Special Economic Zone to Macao.

It made less than 20,000 air-conditioners a year.

Now Gree Electrical Appliances is the world’s largest manufacturer of them.

A multinational company, it employs 80,000 people … More

Hengqin and Qianhai to help neighbouring Macao and Hong Kong to diversify economy

A conglomeration of rapidly expanding cities is emerging in the Pearl River Delta. Indeed, the PRD could be seen as the engine of growth in southern China. Linking these expanding cities are new infrastructures, industries, services, property developments and other large-scale collaborative projects.

… More

Temple fair in Guangzhou

revives centuries-old tradition

By José Simões Morais

In March each year a large temple in Guangzhou hosts the largest traditional temple fair in the Pearl River Delta, attracting thousands of people and reviving a tradition that stretches back a thousand years.

Built in AD 594, the Temple of the Nanhai (South Seas) God is the only … More

By Thomas Chan

Head of China Business Centre

The Hong Kong Polythecnic University

Lying between the old metropolis of Guangzhou and the newly emergent city of Shenzhen is a place known as ‘the world’s factory’ – Dongguan. Over 10 million people work here in the industrial processing of various items, such as textiles and garments, bags and shoes, toys and furniture. … More

Export-driver Foshan seeks to upgrade itself By Staff Reporter

On a prime site in the centre of Foshan, in Guangdong province, a Hong Kong developer is building the largest real-estate project in the city’s history. It plans to sell upmarket apartments to buyers from all over China and overseas, as well as to local people.

“Foshan is in a … More

Guangzhou ponders what to do with European heritage site
By Mark O´Neill

An island in the Pearl River in the centre of Guangzhou contains one of the finest collections of European architecture in China. It houses dozens of buildings from the mid-19th century until 1949, when it was a concession given to Britain and France.

The … More

West bank of PRD finally gets a railway line

By Thomas Chan

The west bank of the Pearl River Delta region (PRD) has for a long time lacked a railway line to connect the cities and towns scattered in the region to the provincial capital of Guangzhou, and via Guangzhou to the rest of the country. Due to the problems of accessibility and … More

How Macao can best play out its role in Portuguese and African relations
By Thomas Chan*

As part of the Pearl River Delta region, Macao would have difficulty standing out among all of the regions cities if we were talking merely in terms of scale. Macao does not compare with its neighbours Hong Kong, … More