What was the name of Guangdong Province before?

Guangdong Province, named after Lingnan East Road and Guangnan East Road, is called "Guangdong" for short. Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, is a coastal province at the southern tip of Chinese mainland. It is located in the south of Nanling, on the coast of the South China Sea, bordering Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, and facing Hainan across the sea.

Guangdong was called Baiyue, Nanyue and Nanyue in ancient times. Guangdong is called "Baiyue" in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals, "Nanyue" in Historical Records and "Nanyue" in Hanshu, which is connected with Guangdong and referred to as Guangdong for short. Guangdong ancestors lived, worked and multiplied in this land very early. In the long history, Guangzhou and Guangdong ranked first, and gradually evolved into Cheng Guangdong Province and its jurisdiction.

Guangdong is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese.

Guangdong Province has been the earliest and largest province of maritime trade and immigration in China since ancient times, and has gradually developed into an important hometown of overseas Chinese since modern times.

There are many overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives.

There are more than 30 million overseas Chinese in Guangdong, accounting for more than half of the total overseas Chinese in China. It is distributed in more than 60 countries and regions around the world, mainly in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia and Vietnam in Southeast Asia, Britain, France and Germany in Europe, the United States, Canada and Mexico in North America, Peru, Brazil and Venezuela in South America, Panama in Central America and Australia and New Zealand in Oceania. There are about 88,000 returned overseas Chinese and more than 30 million relatives of overseas Chinese in the province, mainly concentrated in the Pearl River Delta, Chaoshan Plain and Meizhou, and there are 23 overseas Chinese farms.

There are many historical sites of overseas Chinese culture _

Overseas Chinese culture and hometown culture are important components of Lingnan culture. In 2007, "Kaiping Diaolou and Village" was listed in the World Heritage List, becoming the first overseas Chinese cultural world heritage project and the first world cultural heritage in Guangdong Province. In 20 13, the "Overseas Chinese Approval Archives", which is mainly composed of overseas Chinese approvals in Guangdong, was selected into the Memory of the World Register, becoming the first world memory heritage in Guangdong. Overseas Chinese in Guangdong approved 6.5438+0.6 million pieces, mainly distributed in Chaoshan, Jiangmen Wuyi, Meizhou and other areas. Guangdong's study abroad culture, business culture and charity culture are also closely related to overseas Chinese.

There are many famous overseas Chinese pioneers in modern times.

Many famous figures in China's modern history were pioneers of overseas Chinese in Guangdong. Politically, there are Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Sun Yat-sen and Ye Jianying. In industry, Chen Qiyuan, an overseas Chinese from Nanhai who returned to China to set up the first silk reeling factory, Zhang Zhenxun, an overseas Chinese from Tai Po who set up Changyu Wine Company, and Chen, an overseas Chinese from Taishan in sunning railway. There are Guo Le and Kwon Kuo, overseas Chinese who founded Shanghai Yong 'an Department Store, and Ma Yingbiao, overseas Chinese who founded Shixian Department Store. In the education field, there is Hong Rong, an overseas Chinese in Zhuhai who pioneered the study abroad education in China. In the aviation industry, there are "the father of China Airlines" and Enping overseas Chinese Feng Ru. In addition, there are Situ Meitang, a famous overseas Chinese leader who is a veteran of Hong Men and patriotic all his life, Chen Fang, an industrialist, philanthropist, consul and overseas Chinese leader in Zhuhai, Chen Cifu, an overseas Chinese in Chenghai who has contributed to Shantou's municipal construction, and Miwang, Thailand. They have made outstanding contributions to the development of China's modern civilization, and their thoughts and spirits are an important part of Guangdong's spiritual civilization.