NaamHõi County 南海縣


Nanhai District (simplified Chinese: 南海区; traditional Chinese: 南海區; pinyin: Nánhǎi Qū; Cantonese: Naam⁴hoi²), historically known as Namhoi, is a district of Foshan prefecture-level city, in Guangdong province, southern China. It is the first city to have developed e-government informatization at the county level in China.

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1 Administration
1.1 E-government
2 History
3 Strike
4 Famous people from Nanhai
5 External links
[edit] Administration

Nanhai was a county-level city until December 8, 2002, when it became a district of Foshan prefecture-level city.

[edit] E-government

Nanhai was designated by the central government as a pilot city for e-government and informatization in 2001.

[edit] History

The town was established in 1271 by two brothers carrying their fathers bones. They were fleeing south from the Mongols on a bamboo raft when a violent storm shipwrecked them. The brothers settled down there and the position of the wreck is commemorated by a shrine. This area was named Broken Raft Point.

[edit] Strike

In May 2010, 2,000 workers at a Honda transmission plant went on strike in the Nanhai district.The trigger was a rise of the legal local minimum wage from $123 to $147, announced by the city government May 1 in response to rapidly rising costs of living. The workers expected a raise in their monthly wages equal to this amount. Factory management added $24 to the transmission workers’ monthly base wage but reduced their monthly subsidies (for food, housing, and regular attendance) from $48 to $29. The net gain was only $5 per month.

(reference: http://www.labornotes.org/2010/12/auto- ... d-they-win)

[edit] Famous people from Nanhai

Kang Tongbi
Kang Youwei
Wong Fei Hung
Yip Man
Brigitte Kwan
[edit] External links

Mango Kwan's site contains pictures and history (Chinese)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanhai_District