Ningbo overtook Dongguan as China's fourth-largest exporting city in 2024, shipping ¥945.5 billion of goods abroad against Dongguan's ¥889.7 billion, ending a run of more than a decade during which Dongguan had trailed only Shanghai, Shenzhen and Suzhou.
二零二四年,宁波超越东莞,成为中国出口总额第四大城市,当年出口额达九千四百五十五亿元,而东莞为八千八百九十七亿元;这也结束了东莞此前长达十余年、仅次于上海、深圳与苏州的出口排名。
Dongguan was...
Sun Yat-sen registered at a hotel in Japan in 1897 under a Japanese name a friend invented to protect him from the authorities hunting him; the surname on that hotel register, Nakayama, became his adopted name Zhongshan, and later...
Han Yu ordered a pig and a goat thrown into a crocodile-infested river in 819 AD, then read aloud a formal proclamation ordering the crocodiles to leave Chaozhou within seven days or face death by poisoned arrow.
公元八一九年,韩愈下令将一猪一羊投入一条鳄患严重的江中,随即当众宣读一篇祭文,勒令鳄鱼七日之内离开潮州,否则将以毒箭剿灭。
Han had arrived...
Two mutually unintelligible languages divide Jieyang's own residents, Chaoshan Min in the plains and Hakka in the hills, both officially counted simply as dialects of Chinese, despite having no more in common with each other than either has with...
Zhuang and Yao ancestors, part of the ancient Baiyue peoples, once populated the entire territory that is now Yunfu, long before Han settlers arrived here in force; today, ethnic minorities make up barely 14,000 of the city's nearly 2.4...
