As the youngest prefecture-level city in Guangdong, Yunfu is a pleasant city to live in and work in, with beautiful scenery, outstanding people, and abundant resources.
Chinese Name: 云浮
English Name: Yunfu
Other Names: Stone Capital, Sulfur Capital, Capital of Zen Buddhism
Languages: Yunfu Cantonese, Hakka, Manlam ngy, Taigu dialect
The Map of Yunfu City
Address: Located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, south of the middle reaches of the Xijiang River, bordering Zhaoqing, Foshan, Jiangmen, Yangjiang, Maoming in Guangdong, and Guangxi's Wuzhou.
Area: 7,785.16 square kilometers
Household Registered Population: The city's household registered population is 3,005,500 (as of the end of 2023).
Economic Situation: Gross regional product is 120.742 billion yuan (2023).
Members: 2 districts, 1 county-level city, 2 counties
Two Districts: Yuncheng District, Yun'an District
One County-level City: Luoding City
Two Counties: Xinxing County, Yunan County
The Modaoshan Site, discovered in Yunan County in 2013, revealed the ancient culture of the early Paleolithic Age in Guangdong.
The street scene of Yuncheng District in the early 1990s
A department store in Yunfu in the 1990s
Luoding Shuangjiang River in the 1990s
Yuncheng District
The night view of Xinxing County
Honours of Yunfu
National Garden City
National Sanitary City
National Advanced City in Scientific and Technological Progress
National Agricultural Products Quality and Safety City
China's Stone Circulation Demonstration Base
China's Artificial Stone Capital
China's Stone Base Centre
Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture (Stone Carving) Art
Beautiful and Livable City among China's Happiest Cities of 2023
In recent years, Yunfu has been committed to creating a large number of "urban forest parks" and small "pocket parks", adding beauty to the city.
Nanshan Forest Park
Caidie Park in Yun'an District
Luoding Riverside Park
Jintaishan Smart Park in Xinxing County
Dawangshan National Forest Park
Dajin Mountain - Yunfu's "green lungs"
Yunwu Mountain - Yunfu's highest peak
Bapai Mountain - Yunfu's "Altay"
Tianlu Mountain - natural oxygen bar
Tongledashan Provincial Nature Reserve in Yunan County
Xinwu Village, Yuncheng District
Fenglou Village, Liudu Town, Yun'an District
Chinitang Village, Luoding City
Hedigang Village, Tiantang Town, Xinxing County
Maoling Village, Songgui Town, Yunan County
Yunfu Wuyue Plaza
Upgraded Yunfu East and West Streets
"Village Basketball Association" games in Yun'an District
Miaojie Street, Xinxing County
Zhongshan Road, Yunan County
Yunfu's key projects are progressing fiercely, including Yunfu West Interchange, Guangzhou-Zhanjiang High-speed Railway, Shenzhen-Nanning High-speed Railway, Yunfu Shuangzhou Vocational School, Luoding Fucheng Hospital, Guanyin Mountain Mining Area in Yun'an District, and the 500-kilovolt power transmission and transformation project in Yuncheng District. Leveraging the golden waterway of the Xijiang River, Yunfu has created four port areas to facilitate transportation, making it the "backyard" of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Yunfu West Interchange
Yunfu Shuangzhou Vocational School
Yunfu has a forest area of 7.97 million mu (about 1.3 million acres), with a forest coverage rate of 68.53 percent and a forest stock volume of 32 million cubic meters. It has established two national wetland parks, one national forest park, and seven demonstration sites as part of the endeavor to build a green and beautiful Guangdong.
Dawang Mountain Forest Park
Jinyin Lake National Wetland Park
A flock of egrets is flying leisurely across the Xijiang River in Yunan
Yunfu boasts a variety of specialties, including seedless Wampee, Xinxing Lychee, cinnamon, watermelons in Baishi Town, sweet potatoes, chestnuts, and pineapples.
Watermelons in Baishi Town
Seedless Wampee
Xinxing Lychee
Yunfu has well-developed manufacturing industries such as stone materials, ceramics, automotive parts, stainless steel kitchenware, and luggage. It works to improve the quality and efficiency of industries, aiming to develop three hundred billion yuan industrial clusters and ten major industrial park industries.
Stainless Steel Project of Guangdong Jinshenglan Metallurgical Co., Ltd.
In the meantime, with a focus on new quality productive forces, it has nurtured the only unicorn enterprise in the eastern, western, and northern regions of Guangdong, transitioning from manufacturing to smart manufacturing.
Guangdong Viiyong Electronic Technology Co., LTD.
The city endeavors to cultivate unicorn enterprises in strategic emerging industries such as low-altitude economy, biomedicine, green shipping, port terminals, and new energy.
Photovoltaic Agriculture Project
Yunfu New Port
The Modaoshan Site stands as the earliest ancient cultural relic unearthed in Guangdong, revealing a new dimension to Guangdong's history.
Modaoshan Site Exhibition Hall
In recent years, Yunfu has built more public sports facilities. A total of 56 community sports parks have been completed or are under construction across the city, with full coverage of fitness squares in administrative villages.
Yunfu City Stadium
Helou Dance
Yunfu's Stone Art
From early spring to late winter in Yunfu, there is tasty food for different seasons, such as roasted pork in Yaogu Town, fermented tofu in Chadong Village, tea-scented chicken, steamed rice noodle rolls, peanuts with red fermented bean curd, fish tofu, Yunan Wampee Duck, glutinous rice rolls, and rice cookies.
Tea-scented Chicken
Fish Tofu
Roasted Pork
Pork Belly with Soy Paste
Rice Cake
Shrimp Patty
Photo | Guangdong Fabu, Yunfu Fabu
Editor | Ge Yuting, Monica, James
