Wuzhou is a prefecture-level city on the Eastern fringe of Guangxi Region of the People's Republic of China. Most of the residents of Wuzhou are Han Chinese, which is not the case everywhere in Guangxi. In Wuzhou, Cantonese is spoken. The importance of the city is explained by its port on Xijiang River. A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: d , literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Guangxi (Simplified Chinese: 广西; Traditional Chinese: 廣西; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangsi; Zhuang: Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigi or (old orthography) Gvaŋзsiƅ Bouчcueŋƅ Sɯcigi) is an autonomous region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Han Chinese (Simplified Chinese: 汉族; Traditional Chinese: 漢族; pinyin: ) is a term which refers to the majority ethnic group within China and the largest single human ethnic group in the world. ... Cantonese can refer to: Of, or pertaining to, the people of, or things from, Guangdong Province, Hong Kong or Macau in China. ... Xi River (西江, pinyin: Xī Jiāng, Postal System Pinyin: Si Kiang, lit. ...
Wuzhou is a prefecture-level city in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Wuzhou has traditionally belonged to the Cantonese cultural and linguistic region, so most people speak the Wuzhou or dialect of Cantonese as well as Mandarin.
Wuzhou's airport has flights to Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, and Haikou and is cabable of handling 737's on its 4 runways.
Wuzhou is just two hours from Zhaoqing, famous as the city where Mateo Ricci ministered (c.1587) before moving on to Beijing.
We were taken in the RAB van to the Cathedral, where all the priests of the diocese had gathered with the newly ordained and the Bishop.
The Bishop of Wuzhou, Cai Xiufeng who is in his late seventies, has served as chief pastor for around only ten years and is altogether quite a remarkable person.