Nanhai - a city creates today's brilliance through unflagging pursue; seizes every minute to fly over tomorrow's dream.
Generous as she is, she accepts and greets the world and melts into the world at the same time.
Adventurous and promising as she is, she has the courage to make innovation and reform, taking the lead in the course of modernization.
United as she is, making her way, she makes a name for herself and peps people up, arousing the lofty sentiments and aspirations of millions of her citizens in carving out and building their hometown.
Nanhai has featured distinct character as a city in taking the lead in developing herself: the legacy of traditional Ling Nan watery region and civilization of a modern city co-exists in peaceful harmony, which also leads to a harmonious progress between individuals, between people and nature, between people and the city; prosperous private economy and the glowing name card of "Made in Nanhai" has made her a brand in the world; the titles of "State-level Hygiene City", "State Excellent Touristy City", "State Informatization Model City" and "National Advanced Cities in the Works of Creating A Civilized City" etc., fully reflects her distinctive traits of being a modernized city.
At present, the district committee of CPC and the government of Nanhai district focus on the improvement of regional comprehensive competitive power, take Build An Efficient and Harmonious Nanhai as its own mission, aim at "Reform, Improvement, Enhancement, Promotion" - the theme of development, increase efforts in system innovation and resources integration, realize an overall uplift of social economic development and urban administration level, actively devote itself to the construction of a modernized metropolitan of Foshan, creating an even more beautiful future.

『 Basic Status 』

Nanhai district of Foshan City is located in the hinterland of the Pearl River Delta closely connecting Guangzhou, near the Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR. Its prefecture covers an area of 1073.8 square kilometers, owns registered population of 1.097 million and a floating population of 0.835 million, and Chinese nationals residing abroad and Compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan of 0.4 million.
With long history and profound cultural accumulation, early in 6000 years ago, there existed the civilization of New Stone Age in Xi Qiao Hill. In modern history, lots of eminent people such as Kang Youwei, Chen Qiyuan, Zhan Tianyou, Zou Boqi, He Xiangning and Huang Feihong etc., emerged generation after generation.