Pictures of Guangzhou China

Guangzhou is in southern China, about 80 miles from Hong Kong and Macao.

Guangzhou is the fifth biggest city in China with 11.5 million people

China has many modern department stores.
It is pretty impressive aside from being 9 stories!
And the prices are a small fraction of what they would be in the USA.
GuangZhoui Department stores

There is no shortage of modern high rise buildings there.
I would have to post a few dozen of them to give you an idea of how modern and unique many of them are!
GuangZhou High Rise

Don't like big shopping centers? Here's a place where you can do a little outdoor shopping.
This is Beijing Road in Guangzhou and yes, there are always this many people!!
Beijing Road shopping

Guangzhou also has a modern Metro to get around.
It was clean, fast and trains ran every 5 minutes.
Metro

Shamian Island in Guangzhou was once reserved for foreigners.
There are many European style buildings there.
Shamian Island

There are several statues made of iron like this one on Shamian Island.
They all depict the life style of "westerners".
Iron Statues

This statue is a classic East meets West. This one includes a ship that was typical of the ones they traveled in at the time.
Shamian Island statue

News Years holiday is very big in China. Here are some decorations left over from 2005.
New Year 2005

Here are links to my other China pages.
To see pictures of Beijing, click here
To see pictures of Shanghai, click here

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