2 hr Shenzhen to Macau – 4K Scenic Drive on Pearl River Delta / 2小时深圳到澳门 | 4K珠三角风景驾驶

Oct 2022, 4K 2 hours drive on Pearl River Delta Expressway.
The drive starts at Shenzhen‘s Qianhai Ent, passes through Dongguan, Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Zhuhai and end at the Hengqin Border Port shared by Zhuhai City and Macao Special Administrative Region, behind the port is the Lotus Bridge in Macau.
Route: https://goo.gl/maps/ifaTome7vQXxGyyw9

00:00 Preview
00:12 Shenzhen
16:22 Dongguan
27:57 Guangzhou
42:52 Zhongshan
1:27:32 Zhuhai
1:47:05 Hengqin Port (Macau Checkpoint)

The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region (PRD; Chinese: 珠江三角洲城市圈; pinyin: Zhūjiāng Sānjiǎozhōu Chéngshìquān; Jyutping: Zyu1gong1 Saam1gok3zau1 Sing4si5hyun1; Portuguese: Delta do Rio das Pérolas (DRP)) is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea. It is one of the most densely urbanized regions in the world, and is often considered a megacity. It is now the wealthiest region in South China and one of the wealthiest in the whole of China along with the Yangtze River Delta in East China and Jingjinji in North China. The region's economy is referred to as Pearl River Delta Economic Zone. It is also part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area.

The PRD is a megalopolis, with future development into a single mega metropolitan area, yet itself is at the southern end of a larger megalopolis running along the southern coast of China, which include metropolises such as Chaoshan, Zhangzhou-Xiamen, Quanzhou-Putian and Fuzhou. The nine largest cities of the PRD had a combined population of 57.15 million at the end of 2013, comprising 53.69% of the provincial population.[1] According to the World Bank Group, the PRD has become the largest urban area in the world in both size and population, although its better described as an archipelago of yet to amalgate urban clusters.[2] The region's traditional language is Cantonese; in the late 20th century and the 21st century, due to the high inflow of migrant workers coming from other regions, Mandarin has gradually became a lingua franca.

In terms of developed metropolitan areas, the most prominent are Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and most recently Shenzhen. Guangzhou, located at the center of the PRD, has a history stretching over two millennia and was China's main international port for most of recorded history. It is the largest city in the PRD. Hong Kong, at the southeastern tip of the PRD roughly 170 km from Guangzhou, is separated from Shenzhen by a green belt. Hong Kong is known for its unique history and culture as a British colony throughout the 20th century, during which time it became one of the Four Asian Tigers (and the first of the four to industralize), a busier port than Guangzhou, and grew a legacy of ideological (democratic) and economic (capitalist) culture different from the rest of China. Shenzhen lies directly north of Hong Kong, about 40 km from Kowloon and 130 km from Guangzhou. Shenzhen has transformed from a small village to China's "Silicon Valley" since Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms starting in the 1980s. It became China's first Special Economic Zone due to its proximity to Hong Kong, attracting vast foreign investment and migrants from across China. In 2022, Shenzhen is the second most populous city of the PRD, the world's 4th busiest container port and the busiest container port in the PRD, and has the second highest number of skyscrapers of any city in the world, behind only Hong Kong.
The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) rated Guangzhou and Shenzhen as Alpha - global cities and Hong Kong as an Alpha + global city in 2020, highlighting these cities' high integration with the global economy. Macau and Zhuhai were ranked as High Sufficiency and Sufficiency cities respectively as well.
The west side of this region, along with Chaoshan, was also the source of much Chinese emigration from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries, including to the Western world, where they formed many Chinatowns. Today, much of the Chinese diaspora in the US, Canada, Australia, Latin America, and much of Southeast Asia traces their ancestry to the west side of this region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_R...

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