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Dongguan Overview

Brief Introduction to Dongguan

Dongguan City covers an area of 2,465 square kilometers, its permanent and temporary resident population being about 1,526,000 and 5,000,000 respectively. Dongguan is well known as an ancestral home of more than 200,000 overseas Chinese as well as some 700,000 Hongkong and Macao compatriots. The city boasts a mild climate and abundant products, the annual average temperature being 23.6 ℃ and the annual average rainfall being 1844.5 millimeters. Its land, descending from the east to the west, is mainly made up of hills, mesas and alluvial plains. Its coastline is as long as 115.94 kilometers (including the inner sea-routes). Dongguan is a high-yield traditional agricultural area in China, abundant in paddy rice, bananas, litchis, and marine and freshwater products. The city also enjoys fast economic development, its pillar industry being the high-tech industry which mainly engages in the manufacture of computers and information products.

Dongguan is complete with cultural facilities such as libraries, museums, cinemas, television stations and broadcasting stations as well as an increasingly sound network of hygiene and medical treatment. In the city, 12-year educational system as well as the mass sports activities has been popularized, and the people’s living and cultural standards have been improving. 

Dongguan has basically realized rural industrialization as well as the integration of the urban area and the rural area. It is now noted as a booming modern industrial city.

Area code: 0769

Postcode: 523000

Administrative division: The administrative division of Dongguan City includes 4 districts ( Guancheng, Nancheng, Wanjiang and Dongcheng), and 28 towns (Shijie, Shilong, Chashan, Shipai, Qishi, Hengli, Qiaotou, Xiegang, Dongkeng, Changping, Liaobu, Dalang, Huangjiang, Qingxi, Tangxia, Fengguang, Chang’an, Humen, Houjie, Shatian, Daojiao, Hongmei, Mayong, Zhongtang, Gaobu, Zhangmutou, Dalingshan, Wangniudun).

Telephone for tourist complaint: 0769-22839616