Sanshui
Province:	Guangdong Guangdong Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
Prefecture Prefecture A prefecture is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.-Antiquity:... :	Foshan City
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals... :	120,000
Postal Code:	528100
Area Code China telephone numbering plan Country Code: +86International Call Prefix: 00Trunk Prefix: 0The Chinese Telephone Code Plan is the way to group telephone numbers of Mainland China... :	0757
License Plate Prefix:	粤 ET
Sanshui District
Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...  :	874 km²
Population:	386,000 (2002)
Population density Population density Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans... :	442/km²
Web site:	www.sanshui.gov.cn
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For the style of Chinese painting, see Shan Shui

Shan shui

Shan shui refers to a style of Chinese painting that involves or depicts scenery or natural landscapes, using a brush and ink rather than more conventional paints. Mountains, rivers and often waterfalls are prominent in this art form.-History:...

Sanshui District (Chinese

Chinese character

Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...

: 三水区; pinyin

Pinyin

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: Sānshǔi Qū; Cantonese: Saam¹seoi²), formerly Sanshui City, is a district with about 120,000 inhabitants in Guangdong

Guangdong

Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...

 province of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. Sanshui is part of Foshan City.

Geography

Average temperature 5n January is 13°C, and average temperature in June is at 27°C. Annual precipitation is approximately 1700 mm.

Economy

Oil, coal, and slate are found in the surrounding area. However, Sanshui is also an important producer of food for Guangdong Province, especially fruit. The mainstay of the former city's economy was the Jianlibao Company, which produced a soft drink made from oranges and honey. During the 1990s, Jianlibao was a popular drink throughout China and it even made it into the Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 market. However, embezzlement by the company's senior management has reduced its success. Despite Sanshui's proximity to Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

 and other Pearl River Delta

Pearl River Delta

The Pearl River Delta , Zhujiang Delta or Zhusanjiao in Guangdong province, People's Republic of China is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea...

 cities, it remains a relatively poor place with many people only earning a few hundred yuan a month.

Administration

The neighbouring cities, counties and districts are Gaoyao

Gaoyao

Gaoyao City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing prefecture-level city in Guangdong province, in southern China. Population: 706,000.-Geography:...

, Dinghu

Dinghu

Dinghu may refer to the following locations in China:*Dinghu District , Zhaoqing, Guangdong*Dinghu Mountain , in Zhaoqing, Guangdong*Dinghu, Si County , town in Si County, Anhui...

 and Sihui

Sihui

Sihui , historically known as Szewui, is a county-level city of Guangdong Province, in southern China, under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing. Population: 80,000....

 in the west, Qingxin and Qingyuan

Qingyuan

Qingyuan , historically known as Tsingyün, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Guangdong province of Southern China. Its total population is 3.7 million, and the primary language spoken is Cantonese. With an area of 19,015 km², Qingyuan is the city of the largest land area in Guangdong...

 in the north, Huadu and Nanhai in the east and Gaoming

Gaoming

Gaoming District is a district in Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China. Gaoming City is located west of Foshan City, and has a population of 276,000 and Covers an area of 967.4 km².-Economy:...

 in the south-west. The district is divided into 6 townships and 3 Street committees. Major localities within the county include Datang

Datang

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 (大塘), Liuhe

Liuhe

Liuhe may refer to the following locations in China:* Liuhe, Taicang , Jiangsu* Liuhe County , of Tonghua, Jilin* Luhe District , Nanjing, Jiangsu* Liuhe Pagoda , multi-storied Chinese pagoda in southern Hangzhou, Zhejiang...

 (六和), Leping

Leping

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 (乐平), Nanbian (南边), Hekou

Hekou

Hekou may refer to the following in China:*Hekou District , Dongying, Shandong*Hekou Group, geological formation in Gansu*Hekou Yao Autonomous County , of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan...

 (河口), Jinben (金本), Lubao (芦苞) and Baini (白坭).

Transportation

Sanshui is on the railway line from Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

 to Maoming

Maoming

Maoming is located in southwestern Guangdong province, People's Republic of China. Facing the South China Sea to the city's south, Maoming city neighbors Zhanjiang in the west and is from Guangzhou and from Zhanjiang. The Maoming Port is a Grade I port that handled 16.8 million tons of cargo in...

. The district is connected to other areas by the Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

-Foshan

Foshan

Foshan is a city in central Guangdong province in southern China. The prefectural area under the city's jurisdiction over an area of about 3,840 km² and a population of 5.4 million of which 1.1 million reside in the city proper ....

-Kaiping

Kaiping

Kaiping : Hoi3 Pen6) or Hoi Ping is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, southern China. It has a population of 680,000 as of 2003 and an area of 1,659 km². The locals speak a variation of the Taishan dialect.-Administration:...

, Guangzhou

Guangzhou

Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...

-Sanshui-Zhaoqing

Zhaoqing

Zhaoqing is a prefecture-level city of Guangdong province in southern China.-Geography:Zhaoqing is located 110 km northwest of Guangzhou, in the west Pearl River Delta. It lies on the north shores of the Xijiang River, which is flows from west to east, and opposite of Gaoyao...

 (part of the G324) and Xi Er Huan Expressways.

Fireworks Explosion

In February 2008, twenty fireworks warehouses exploded in Sanshui. In total over 15,000 cartons of fireworks were set off over a period of 24 hours. The death toll from the explosion in Sanshui has not been released by the Chinese government. The loss of inventory was extensive enough that U.S. markets faced real shortages of supply.

Other

There's a main-belt

Asteroid belt

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 asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 named Sanshui

3509 Sanshui

3509 Sanshui is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 28, 1978 by Purple Mountain Observatory at Nanking.- External links :*...

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