Panyu District

Panyu District or Pun Yue District () is a district in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It used to be a county-level city before it was incorporated in the administration of Guangzhou. The name of Panyu dates back to the completion of the conquest of Guangdong by Qin Shi Huang. It was the old name of present-day Guangzhou. It covers an area of about 661.88 km².

Geography

Panyu lies at the heart of the Pearl River Delta (珠江三角洲), its boundary straddles from latitudes 22.26' to 23.05', and sprawls from longitudes 113.14' to 113.42'. Facing the Lion Sea in the east and the estuary of the Pearl River in the south, its eastern border is separated from the Dongguan by a strip of water, and the western border of Panyu is adjacent to the cities of Nanhai, Shunde and Zhongshan, while it abuts the downtown of Guangzhou in the north. The site of the People's government of Panyu is Shiqiao which is 17 kilometers from Guangzhou and 38 and from the cities of Hong Kong and Macao respectively.

Administrative divisions

Panyu district has seven Street committees (街道). The district executive, legislature and judiciary are in Shiqiao (市桥街), together with the CPC and PSB branches. The other street committees are :

• Qiaonan (桥南街)
• Donghuan (东环街)
• Shatou (沙头街)
• Luopu (洛浦街)
• Dashi (大石街)
• Xiaoguwei (小谷围街)
• Shibi (石壁街)

Towns

There are now ten towns :

• Shilou (石楼镇)
• Nancun (南村镇)
• Shawan (沙湾镇) -......
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