When did Panyu County become Panyu City?

Panyu County1992 Panyu City was established in May.

1May, 1992, with the approval of the State Council, it was agreed to cancel Panyu County and establish Panyu City (county level), which was directly under the provincial government. The original administrative area of Panyu County was Panyu City. The Guangdong Provincial People's Government decided to entrust the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government with the custody of Panyu City and the Municipal People's Government in Shiqiao Town.

On May 2, 20001day, the State Council agreed to cancel the county-level Panyu City and set up Panyu District of Guangzhou City, with the former county-level Panyu City as the administrative area.

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Panyu was established in the thirty-third year of Qin Shihuang (2 14 BC). It is an important birthplace of Lingnan culture and one of the starting points of the Maritime Silk Road. Guangdong architecture, Lingnan school of painting, Cantonese opera and Guangdong music have a long history, as well as folk arts such as fish dance, floating color, begging for cleverness and lion awakening.

Panyu District is a municipal district of Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, which is located in the south-central part of Guangzhou City and is the geographical center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It is adjacent to Shiziyang and Dongguan in the east, the Pearl River Estuary in Nansha in the south, Shunde and Zhongshan in Foshan in the west and Haizhu District in the north. The total area of the whole region is 529.94 square kilometers, and it governs 10 streets and 6 towns.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Panyu District