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The Russian Navy and China's People's Liberation Army Navy begin joint military drills in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
2024-07-14

The death toll from the floods and landslides in Meizhou, Guangdong, China, increases to 47 people.
2024-06-21

At least nine people are killed and 15 others are missing during landslides caused by floods in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, China.
2024-06-18

The severity of the energy crisis in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces of China is reported as worsening, with power outages occurring every week and "notices{{nbsp}}... telling us which days the following week that they will cut the power". Some factories report receiving power for only two or three days per week and are operating primarily on generators. China has also placed large bids for coal that are causing supply issues in locations as far away as Ukraine.
2021-10-8

China reimposes travel restrictions in Guangdong province that require anyone travelling by plane, train, bus, or private vehicle after 10:00 p.m. to present nucleic acid test results from within the past 72 hours amid an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.
2021-05-31

Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn announces that the company is reconsidering their plan to manufacture LCD panels in a promised Wisconsin plant because of a changed global marketplace, and the high cost of United States labor. Foxconn said, earlier in January, that it still planned to create 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin pledged subsidies worth more than $3bn.
2019-01-30

Thousands of people are reported to have spontaneously marched in southern China's village of Wukan in Guangdong province over the arrest of the village's democratically elected leader, 70-year-old Lin Zuluan, who had been planning meetings and protests about corruption, illegal land grabs, and the government's failure to return land to the people, per the 2011 agreement.
2016-06-19

Manufacturer Foxconn closes a factory in Taiyuan in China's Shanxi province after a fight breaks out between thousands of workers.
2012-09-24

Foxconn Technology, a computer assembler headquartered in Taiwan, plans to add one million robots to its plants over the next three years, according to a Reuters report.
2011-08-1

Ming Ming, the oldest panda in the world, dies at the age of 34 in Guangdong, China.
2011-05-17