Landmark buildings in Guangzhou

Besides being called the Flower City, Guangzhou was also called the Yangcheng in ancient times. Wuyang Stone Carving is located in Yuexiu Mountain, Guangzhou. Built in 1960. The whole stone carving and its pedestal are 1 1 m high, carved with more than 100 pieces of granite. The stone carving is designed for five goats of different sizes, with the leader in the middle holding his head high and the ear of wheat in his mouth, and the other four lambs circling around. The sculpture is beautiful and vivid, and it has been an important symbol of Guangzhou since its completion.

2. White Swan Hotel:

White Swan Hotel, built in 1983, is the first five-star hotel in Chinese mainland. It is located on the bank of the Pearl River in Shamian, Guangzhou, and its appearance is neat and elegant. The interior design inherits the essence of traditional architecture in Lingnan, China. The garden landscape with "hometown water" as the main scene in the atrium is very beautiful and world-famous. White Swan Hotel is one of the best hotels in China, and it has been selected as a national architectural heritage in the 20th century.

3. Guangzhou TV Tower:

Located in Yizhou Island, across the river from flower city square, it was completed in 2009. The tower is 600 meters high, with the world's tallest revolving restaurant and the world's tallest Ferris wheel. The appearance of Guangzhou TV Tower is very beautiful. The tower is an oval-shaped upward-rotating net structure, with small waist contraction and silvery white body, just like a beautiful girl standing in the water. People in Guangzhou affectionately call it a small waist. This tower has become the most important city symbol in Guangzhou!

4. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall:

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall was built in 193 1, which was built by Guangzhou people and overseas Chinese in memory of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The memorial hall is about 49 meters high and 73 meters deep from north to south. It is a mixed structure of steel frame and reinforced concrete. The design is full of national characteristics, and it is a magnificent palace-style building.

In the center of the memorial hall is a huge octagonal pointed roof, surrounded by luxury houses, red doorposts and blue glazed tiles, which is magnificent as a whole. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is a treasure in China's modern architecture and one of the landmark buildings in modern Guangzhou.

City business card:

Guangzhou is one of the first national historical and cultural cities and the birthplace of Guangfu culture. Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province, a sub-provincial city, a national central city, a megacity and a core city of Guangzhou metropolitan area. The State Council approved China as an important central city, international business center and comprehensive transportation hub.

Guangzhou is the headquarters of China Southern Theater, a national logistics hub, a national comprehensive gateway city and an international comprehensive transportation hub. It is the first batch of coastal open cities, the south gate of China to the world, the central city of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Pan-Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, and the hub city of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Guangzhou