Yunfu, benefited from its geological location and rich natural resources, is a municipality on a promising land with great potentiality for exploitation and vast vistas for development.

Yunfu Municipality is located in the central-west of Guangdong Province, China, east to Pearl River Delta and west to southeast Guangxi province. It is an important bridge connecting China's west and south provinces with Pearl River Delta. Yunfu is 160 km from Guangzhou, with a direct expressway to Guangzhou to be finished by September of 2004. It covers a total area of 7,779 square kilometers and its population is 2.60 million. Its jurisdiction areas are Yuncheng District, Xinxing County, Yu'nan County, Yun'an County, and it also governs Luoding City at county level on behalf of the Province.

With a temperate climate, Yunfu is the place for development of high-tech agriculture and green agriculture. It is famous for its Pyrite Mine, granites, and marbles, enjoying the titles of "Pyrite Capital" and "City of Stone" for a long time. Yunfu owns picturesque landscapes and is a land bringing outstanding personages, like Master Monk Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Buddhist Zen Sect. Attractive tourist destinations are too numerous to be mentioned here one by one. The Guo'en Temple and the Dragon Hill Hot Spring in Xinxing County, the Coiling Dragon (Panglong) Grotto in Yuncheng District, the Stone Inscription on High Precipice of the Dragon Shrine Crag in Luoding City, etc. are known far and wide as scenic attractions.

Yunfu has a rather well developed traffic network: its main roads are all grade-one and grade-two cement concreted highways, besides, Sanshui-Maoming Railway goes through Yunfu. Its waterway system on Xijiang River is mature. In the municipality, there are two customs houses, says Yunfu Customs and Luoding Customs, and four ports, namely, Yunfu, Ducheng, Yun'an and Luoding, so products can be shipped to Hong Kong and Macao, then transshipped to other oceanic countries. Communication service is available with updated facilities like SPC telephone, cell phone, microwave and optical fiber transmission, facsimiles, and ADSL.

Since the reform and opening up to the outside world, Yunfu has taken the export-oriental road and chase to development, industrial mainstays have been established for chemicals, stone building materials, textiles and garment, stainless products, electric wire & cables, agricultural produces processing, etc. Yunfu has become the biggest stone products distributing center, the largest processing and export base of stainless steel utensil and an important garment-processing base in Southern China. The Municipality has been awarded many titles by Ministries of Center Government, such as "County of the Seedless Chinese wampee (Clauseua Lansium)" to Yu'nan, "County of Preserved Fruits Processing " to Xinxing, "County of Cassia Bark" to Luoding, and "The Stone Material Base of China" to Yunfu Municipality.

The Yunfu People have been doing their best to provide all investors with more preferential investment policies, fair legal environment, stable public security and comfortable living condition.

Editor: Wing