Guangzhou is on the coast of the South China Sea and 182 kilometers away from Hongkong, it is China's largest and most prosperous city in the south, an important seaport for foreign trade and a famous historical and cultural city over 2000 years old. It hosts annual spring and autumn exports trade fairs. It has convenient land, water and air transport. International air routes link it to Bangkok, Manila, Singapore, Sydney and Melbourne. Daily flights, trains, ships and hovercraft go between the city and Hong Kong. Guangzhou is located within the Tropic of Cancer and has no real winter. Flowers are in blossom all the year round, so Guangzhou is called "The City of Flowers."

Guangzhou has a few beautiful and legendary nicknames, Huacheng (the Flower City, Yangcheng (the Goat City) and Suicheng (the Rice-ear City).

Guangzhou is a civilized ancient city. It is 2,100 years old, the same ages as the world-reknowned ancient cultural city of Rome of Italy. A modern city in China, Guangzhou is the political, economic, educational, cultural as well as scientific and technological center in South China. It is also a tourist city.