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Although the PearlRiver Delta Economic Zone encompasses only 0.4 percent of the land area and only 3.2 percent of the 2000 Census population of mainland China, it accounted for 8.7 percent of GDP, 32.8 percent of total trade, and 29.2 percent of utilised foreign capital in 2001.
The PearlRiver Delta has become the world's workshop and is a major manufacturing base for products such as electronic products (such as watches and clocks), toys, garments and textiles, plastic products, and a range of other goods.
The Pearlriver delta is notoriously polluted, with sewage and industrial waste facilities failing to keep pace with the growth in population and industry in the area.
The PearlRiver (珠江 Pinyin: Zhū Jiāng) is China's third longest river (2,200 km, after the Yangtze River and the Huang He), and second largest by volume (after the Yangtze).
It is formed by convergence of the Xi Jiang ("the West River"), the Bei Jiang ("the North River"), and the Dong Jiang ("the East River").
The river flows through the majority of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou Provinces, and parts of Hunan and Jiangxi, forming the 409,480 km² PearlRiver Basin (珠江流域).
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