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Guangzhou, also Canton, Kuang-chou, or Kwangchow, city, southern China, capital of Guangdong Province. It is a busy port and a commercial and industrial center on the Zhu Jiang (Pearl River). Manufactures include processed food (especially sugar), textiles, steel, paper, cement, fertilizer, chemicals, motor vehicles, and machinery. The city, which is served by an outer deepwater port at Whampoa (Huangpu), is linked by rail with Hong Kong and Beijing. About 15 percent of China's foreign trade is conducted here, and the city is the site of a twice-yearly major international trade fair (established 1957). A leading educational center of China, Guangzhou is the site of Zhongshan (Chung-shan or Sun Yat-sen) University (1924), a school of medicine, a technical university, and an agricultural institute.
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美国的四个Canton是：
Canton (Massachusetts), town in eastern Massachusetts, in Norfolk County
Canton (New York), small town in northern New York, the seat of Saint Lawrence County.
Canton (North Carolina), town in western North Carolina, in Haywood County, on the Pigeon River
Canton (Ohio), industrial city, seat of Stark County, northeastern Ohio, on Nimishillen Creek