1845, the British businessman Cooper established the Cooper Wharf in cheung chau island, Huangpu, Guangzhou, which was the first large-scale industrial enterprise established by foreign capital in Guangzhou and the first enterprise established by foreign capital in China.

The beginning of overseas Chinese investment in Guangzhou

1862 Mr. Li, an overseas Chinese in Peru, and others raised funds to set up the "Bandung" company in Guangzhou to operate import and export business.

This is the first enterprise established by overseas Chinese in Guangzhou, and it is also the beginning of overseas Chinese investment in modern times.

Overseas Chinese founded the earliest match factory in China.

Matches were introduced to China in 1865, which is called "foreign fire" or "spontaneous fire".

The first person who made his own matches in China was Wei Shengxuan, an overseas Chinese living in Japan.

/kloc-in 0/879, China's first match factory (Qiao Ming Match Factory, the predecessor of Guangzhou Match Factory) was established in Wenchang Sha, Guangzhou, producing "Dragon Dance" brand matches.

Qiao Ming Match Factory was originally small in scale and operated by hand.

Produce 10 sets of matches every day (each set 1200 boxes).

Since then, seven match factories have been established, with more than 400 workers/kloc-0. All of them use the "Dragon Dance" brand as the trademark of matches.

Qiao Ming Match Factory has experienced more than 100 years of vicissitudes and moved several times. On 1966, it was renamed Guangzhou Match Factory. At present, it is the largest advertising match manufacturer in China, producing 300 advertising matches.

Overseas Chinese founded the first household electric lamp company in China.

Guangzhou First Electric Company was founded by Huang Bingchang, an overseas Chinese living in the United States, on 1890.

It was established 1 1 year earlier than Ningbo Electric Light Factory.

Huang Bingchang worked as a worker in Honolulu in his early years and later became an overseas Chinese capitalist.

Influenced by the American anti-Chinese movement, he transferred the funds back to China and set up his own power plant.

1889, the organization began to raise 400,000 yuan from overseas Chinese in the United States, and purchased two 1000 horsepower generators and two 100 volt alternators from Westinghouse Electric Company in the United States.

The power generation capacity can be used for lighting 1500 lamps.

Hire American Weiss as the chief engineer, responsible for technical guidance, and employ workers 100.

Bulbs are divided into 16 lamp and 10 lamp.

Monthly fee: 16 lamp 1.6 yuan, 10 lamp 1 yuan.

At that time, 700 electric lights were installed in shops and public places in 40 streets of Guangzhou.

Guangzhou jianshi

1921February 15, Guangzhou city hall was established, with six bureaus, including public security, public utilities, finance, health, education and public works.

Sun Ke was the first mayor.

It is the beginning of the establishment of Guangzhou.

Previously, Guangzhou Municipal Office was established in June 19 18, and started the construction of modern municipal facilities.

Guangzhou was occupied by the Japanese army.

1938 10 6 12, the Japanese aggressor troops occupied Guangzhou, beginning a seven-year occupation period.

Guangzhou Guangfu

1On September 6th, 945, the Japanese invaders held a surrender signing ceremony at Zhongshan Memorial Hall.

The agreement was signed by Tanaka Jiuhe, commander of Japanese 2 1 Force, and Zhang Fakui, commander of China Second Army.

Guangzhou declared its recovery.

This is the first time in nearly a hundred years that the people of Guangdong have won a complete victory in the war against aggression.

Haizhu Bridge was bombed.

1On the eve of the rout of the Kuomintang reactionaries from Guangzhou in June, 949, the slogan of "total retreat, total attack and total destruction" was put forward in an attempt to turn Guangzhou into ruins.

At 5: 30 p.m. in 14, Li Helan, the garrison commander of the Kuomintang government in Guangzhou, dispatched 100 boxes of military yellow explosives to blow up Haizhu Bridge, causing 400-500 casualties, sinking more than one civilian ship 100, destroying hundreds of houses and affecting more than 3,000 residents.

After liberation, Haizhu Bridge was reopened to traffic at 1950 and 10.

Guangzhou liberation

19491June1June1August, the People's Liberation Army occupied all the important organs in Guangzhou, annihilated more than 2,000 Kuomintang remnants, and the campaign of liberating Guangzhou ended successfully.

The People's Liberation Army of China held a grand parade into the city at the front desk of the government building on Fu Qian Road.

The first China Export Commodities Fair was held in Guangzhou.

From April 25th to May 25th, 1957, the first China Export Commodities Fair was held in Guangzhou Sino-Soviet Friendship Building.

Since then, the Spring and Autumn Fair has been held twice a year in Guangzhou.

The State Council praised Guangzhou as the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities.

1982 On February 8th, with the approval of the State Council, Guangzhou was announced as the first batch of national historical and cultural cities.

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