Historical context

- For various periods in history, e.g. in Qing Dynasty and in the PRC before thereform,
  China's exports trade was conducted primarily through Guangzhou, the primal city of
  south China
- The Opium War (1840-42) was a testimony to Guangzhou's primacy in external trade
  in Imperial China - substantial variations both in terms of physical geography and in
  terms of culture (such as language) and type of economic activities engaged existed
  between places within the Delta region

 
Huaishen Temple in Guangzhou, Foreigners habitat several hundred years ago. Humen Emplacement


      The Site of First CECF in 1956                              The  New Site of CECF Since 1970

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