Nanhai District (), is a

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, China. Its government is the first to have developed

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informatization at the county level in China.

History

Establishment of Nanhai is traditionally attributed two brothers carrying their father's bowls in 1271. They were fleeing south from the

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s on a

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raft when a violent storm shipwrecked them and broke all the bowls. The brothers settled down there and the position of the wreck is commemorated by a shrine. This area was named Broken Bowls Point. On 15 February 1921, the eastern part of Nanhai County was ceded to the newly established City of

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which became part of what is now western part of

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. On 26 June 1951, Foshan Town (present Chancheng) was ceded to the newly established City of

. Nanhai County was upgraded into a

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on 2 September 1992 until 8 December 2002 Nanhai was consolidated as a district of Foshan.

Administration division

Nanhai was a

until December 8, 2002, when it became a district of

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E-government

Nanhai was designated by the central government as a pilot city for

and informatization in 2001.

Notable people

* Kang Tongbi * Kang Youwei * Lin Liang * Wong Fei Hung * Ip Man *

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* Antonio Ng * Tan Sri Datuk Amar Stephen Kalong Ningkan * Zhan Tianyou * Zhong Naixiong

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