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30 strong synthesized economic cities of China but also ranked third in the total foreign trade of large and medium-sized cities for

7 consecutive years and the first of prefecture-level city of China. It's also one of the fastest-growing economic regions in China. All in all, Dongguan is a nationally important manufacturing base and modern manufacturing well-known city. Charm of DongguanCity With thousands of years 一等奖李婉青?12级英翻3班Dongguan is located in central southern GuangdongProvince, northwest of Pearl River Delta in China. The land area of the whole city is

2465 square kilometers,

50 kilometers south of Guangzhou,

90 kilometers north of Shenzhen, 47nautical miles from Hong Kong and

48 nautical miles from Macau by water. It is in the middle of Guangzhou Shenzhen Hong Kong economic corridor and the essential place for water and land transportation between Guangzhou and Hong Kong. She is a new city of culture. There are some deep mass foundations in traditional folk art essence such as lion dance, unicorn dance, Guangdong Opera and Hakka folk songs even modern cultural facilities, for instance, Dongguan exhibition, Dongguan Yulan Opera, Dongguan library, Mass Art Centre, Science Museum, Dongguan Youth Cultural Palace and Technology museum. Dongguan is becoming a splendid new city full of flowers bloom together culturally. She is a new city of ecology. Dongguan has the advantages of natural landscape, being by the sea, along the rivers and close to the mountains. The whole city is just like a green island, planted with trees and lawns, kapok and redbud being in blossom on both sides of the street. There are sixteen forest gardens in this area full of ancient trees, songs of birds and fragrance of flowers. While flowers grow all the year round with luxuriantly green in the garden of city centre. Dongguan is becoming a new city of ecology which is the most livable, award as "International Garden City", "the NationalModelCity for Environmental Protection" and "TopGreenCity in China". She is famous for manufacturing. The economy of Dongguan flourishes at an average annual growth rate of 18%, which is one of

30 cities with the most powerful comprehensive economic strength in China. The total amount of foreign trade has ranked the third in all large and medium-sizes cities for

7 years in a row, top the list in the Nation. Dongguan has been one of areas with the fastest economic development in China as well as the important manufacturing base and modern manufacturing city internationally.