Guangdong lies in the south of the map.
Guangdong, whose name evolved from Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is called "Guangdong" for short. Guangzhou, the provincial capital, is a coastal province at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. Located in the south of Nanling and on the coast of the South China Sea, it borders Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and faces Hainan across the sea. It has jurisdiction over 2 1 prefecture-level cities (including 2 sub-provincial cities) and 9 county-level administrative regions (60 municipal districts, 20 county-level cities, 36 counties and 3 autonomous counties).
Since 1989, Guangdong's GDP has been ranked first in the country? Become the largest economic province in China, accounting for 1/8 of the total national economy, reaching the level of upper-middle-income countries? , the level of moderately developed countries? . Guangdong's comprehensive economic competitiveness ranks first in the country? . In 20 16, the number of high-tech enterprises in Guangdong reached 19857, ranking first in the country. PCT international patent applications lead the country 15 years? .
Nine cities in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta will join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to build Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, becoming one of the four largest Greater Bay Area cities in the world alongside new york Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo Bay Area? . Guangdong should form a world-class coastal metropolitan belt with the Pearl River Delta world-class bay area urban agglomeration as the guide and Shantou Chaojie urban agglomeration and Zhanmao Yangcheng urban agglomeration as the support.