General

City Name: Dongguan

City Flower: Champacany puti

Language: Mandarin/Cantonese

 
Geography

Location: Dongguan is 59 and 140 kilometers away from Guangzhou and Hong Kong respectively, the very midway of Guangdong Hong Kong Economic Corridor.

Territory: 2,465 square kilometers

Climate: Dongguan enjoys mild subtropical monsoon climate with an annual average temperature at 21.6 degrees centigrade and annual average rainfall at 1,690 millimeter.

 
Government

Secretary of CPC Municipal Committee: Liu Zhigeng

Acting Mayor : Yuan Baocheng

Economy

GDP: 424.6 billion RMB (2010)

Year on Year Growth (%): 10.3

Per Capita GDP: 66,344 RMB (2010)

Import & Export: 121.3 billion USD (2010)

Major Industries: Electronics & IT, electric machinery, textile and garments, furniture, toy, paper, food and beverage, chemical industry

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