Foshan City
By admin on 2015-01-06

Foshan City (fó shān shì 佛山市) is in the southwest of Guangdong Province (guǎng dōng shěng 广东省), 28 kilometers away from Guangzhou City (guǎng zhōu shì 广州市). With a population of 320,000, Foshan is one of China’s oldest pottery towns. It is in the central area of Zhujiang Delta (zhū jiāng sān jiǎo zhōu 珠江三角洲), the north to it is Guangzhou, the west to it is Zhaoqing (zhào qìng 肇庆), Zhuhai (zhū hǎi 珠海) is in the east and Jiangmen (jiāng mén 江门) is to the south.

There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Foshan, like Huang Feihong Memorial Hall (huáng fēi hóng jì niàn guǎn 黄飞鸿纪念馆), Xiqiao Mountain (xī qiáo shān 西樵山), Ancestral Temple (zǔ miào 祖庙), Shiwan (shí wān 石湾) etc., among them the first two are the most famous.