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Guangzhou (广州)

Guangzhou, historically known in English as Canton, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China, a trading port for over 2,000 years.

Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group

Guangzhou Automobile Industry Group Co., Ltd. is a Chinese state-owned holding company, incorporated in 2000, that owns about 53% of the listed automaker GAC Group.

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (广州白云国际机场)

Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, also known as Baiyun Airport, is the main international airport of Guangzhou, China, and a major hub of the Greater Bay Area.

Guangzhou Children's Park

Guangzhou Children's Park (广州市儿童公园) is a free city-run children's park in Baiyun New Town, Guangzhou, China, founded in 1958 and reopened on former Baiyun Airport land in 2014.

Guangzhou CrocoPark

Guangzhou CrocoPark (广州鳄鱼公园) was a crocodile-themed park in Panyu, Guangzhou, China, built by the Chimelong Group and opened in 2004; it was later renamed Chimelong Birds Park (长隆飞鸟乐园).

Guangzhou Development Group

Guangzhou Development Group (广州发展集团) is a state-controlled integrated energy company based in Guangzhou, China, established in 1997 and listed in Shanghai, operating power generation, city gas, and coal logistics.

Guangzhou Dihuixin Medical Devices (迪会信)

Guangzhou Dihuixin Medical Devices (迪会信) is a Guangzhou company that distributes imported in-vitro diagnostic products from Roche, Sysmex, and BD to hospitals across Guangdong Province.

Guangzhou Energy Storage Group (广州储能集团有限公司)

Guangzhou Energy Storage Group (广州储能集团) is a state-backed energy storage company registered in Nansha, Guangzhou in July 2023 with RMB 2 billion in capital, controlled through the listed utility 广州发展.

Guangzhou F.C. (广州足球俱乐部)

Guangzhou F.C. (广州足球俱乐部), also Guangzhou Evergrande, South China Tigers: Chinese club founded 1954; eight CSL titles, AFC Champions League 2013 and 2015; dissolved January 2025 over debts.

Guangzhou Hengyun Enterprises Holdings

Guangzhou Hengyun Enterprises Holdings Ltd is a state-backed power generation and heat-supply company in Guangzhou, China, founded in 1987 and listed in Shenzhen since 1994.

Guangzhou hydroelectric plant

The Guangzhou hydroelectric plant, formally the Guangzhou Pumped Storage Power Station (广州抽水蓄能电站), is a 2,400 MW pumped-storage station in Conghua District, Guangzhou, China, fully operational in 2000.

Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holdings

Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holdings Group (广州工控) is a Chinese state-owned industrial holding company created in 2019 by merging Guangzhou's steel, chemical, and appliance groups into one advanced-manufacturing platform.

Guangzhou Innogen Pharmaceutical Group

Guangzhou Innogen Pharmaceutical Group, also known as Yinnuo Pharma, is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company in Guangzhou that makes long-acting GLP-1 drugs; its Efsubaglutide Alfa was approved for type 2 diabetes in 2025.

Guangzhou International Finance Center

Guangzhou International Finance Center, also known as Guangzhou IFC or the West Tower (广州西塔), is a 438.6-meter mixed-use skyscraper in Guangzhou, China, completed in 2010 and designed by WilkinsonEyre.

Guangzhou Junming Paradise

Guangzhou Junming Paradise (广州钧明欢乐世界, Junming Happy World) is an indoor urban theme park complex in Yongning, Zengcheng District, Guangzhou, with 180,000 square meters of floor area, four licensed IP parks (CrossFire, Sega Joypolis, Sonic, Cocoa), four themed hotels and streets, opened from 2021 by Junming Group.

Guangzhou Medical University

Guangzhou Medical University (广州医科大学, GMU), founded 1958 in Guangzhou as Guangzhou Medical College, renamed 2013; a Double First-Class medical university since 2022 with 15 affiliated hospitals and respiratory medicine led by Zhong Nanshan.

Guangzhou Municipal Construction Group

Guangzhou Municipal Construction Group (广州建筑集团) is a state-owned construction enterprise founded in 1950 and ranked 455th on the 2025 Fortune Global 500, known for the Canton Tower.

Guangzhou Nansha LNG Terminal

Guangzhou Nansha LNG Terminal (广燃南沙LNG) is an LNG import terminal on Xiaohu Island in Nansha District, Guangzhou, China, which received its first cargo in August 2023.

Guangzhou Opera House (广州大剧院)

Guangzhou Opera House (广州大剧院), Zaha Hadid Architects' twin-boulder performing arts center on the Pearl River in Guangzhou; 1,800-seat opera hall, opened May 2010, GRG acoustic interior, early parametric architecture.

Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings

Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Holdings (广州医药集团, GPHL) is a wholly state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical group in Guangzhou, known for Wanglaoji herbal tea and its dual-listed arm Guangzhou Baiyunshan.

Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corporation

广州医药, or Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corporation, is a Guangzhou pharmaceutical wholesaler and retailer founded in 1951, majority owned by 广药白云山 and listed on China's NEEQ in 2025.

Guangzhou Rongchuang Amusement Park

Guangzhou Rongchuang Amusement Park (广州融创乐园) is a theme park in Huadu District, Guangzhou, China, opened in 2019 as part of the Sunac Cultural Tourism City resort.

Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank

Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank (广州农村商业银行) is a joint-stock commercial bank headquartered in Guangzhou, China, that grew out of rural credit cooperatives and has been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange since June 2017.

Guangzhou Zhujiang power station

Guangzhou Zhujiang power station (广州珠江电厂) is a 1,280 MW coal-fired power station in the Nansha district of Guangzhou, Guangdong, built in two phases in the 1990s.

Guangzhou Zoological Garden

Guangzhou Zoological Garden (广州动物园), or Guangzhou Zoo, is a 42-hectare municipal zoo in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, opened in 1958, one of China's three major city zoos, holding 300+ species and leading South China tiger breeding.

Guangzhouwan (广州湾)

Guangzhouwan (广州湾, Kouang-Tchéou-Wan) was France's 99-year leased territory in Guangdong, 1898/1899–1945, administered under French Indochina, known for its opium monopoly and Fort Bayard; returned to China in 1945–1946 and renamed Zhanjiang.

Guanidine

Guanidine is a strong organic base with the formula CH₅N₃, the parent of the guanidines; its group appears in arginine, creatine, and drugs such as streptomycin and proguanil.

Guanidine hydrochloride

Guanidine hydrochloride, also called guanidinium chloride or GdmCl, is the hydrochloride salt of the strong organic base guanidine, used in laboratories to denature proteins and purify nucleic acids.

Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency

Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency is an inherited metabolic disorder in which the body cannot make creatine and guanidinoacetate accumulates, causing epilepsy, intellectual disability, and treatable neurological disease.

Guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase

Guanidinoacetate N-methyltransferase (GAMT, EC 2.1.1.2, gene at 19p13.3) is the enzyme that methylates guanidinoacetate with SAM to complete creatine synthesis; its deficiency causes a treatable epilepsy-intellectual disability disorder.