Zhongshan is one of a very few cities in China named after a person. It is named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), who is known in Mandarin as Sun Zhongshan.

Zhongshan is situated in the Pearl River Delta Region of Guangdong Province, it is geographically connected with Guangzhou on the north and in vicinity to Hongintelligent, friendly and passionate.

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Zhongshan is the marketing and commercial centre of one of the most prosperous and densely peopled areas in China. Great quantities of agricultural produce are collected for shipment to Guangzhou, and it is the main distribution point for manufactured goods, also mostly from the Guangzhou area.

Zhongshan' (=中山) is a prefecture-level city dating back to 1152 in Guangdong province, China. Zhongshan lies in the south of the Pearl River Delta on the west bank of the Pearl River estuary. The person considered the founding father of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, was born locally.

Zhongshan, originally called Xiangshan in ancient Chinese, was renamed in honor of Sun Yat-sen, who was born in nearby Cuiheng in 1866. Sun Yat-sen is regarded as the father of modern China as he devoted himself to the overthrow of the feudal Qing Dynasty and foundation of a new democratic republic in China.

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Zhongshan, meaning central mountains, is first mentioned in 506   BC, by a Jin minister, as a hostile neighboring state. The last mention of the Xianyu, meanwhile, is in 489   BC, when Zhao Yang, a Jin minister, leads a military campaign against them.

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