Overview of the Society
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Guangzhou is the third largest Chinese city and southern China’ s largest city. It’ s an open city with a great number of migrants and foreigners. Most foreigners are form Africa and the Middle East, as a result, Guangzhou is named as“ the Capital of the Third World”. In 2008 Guangzhou was identified as a Beta World City by the global city index produced by the GaWC, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 12million.
Cantonese
Cantonese, or Standard Cantonese is a language that originated in the vicinity of Canton in southern China, and is often regarded as the prestige dialect of Yue Chinese. Inside mainland China, it is a lingua franca in Guangdong Province and some neighbouring areas, such as the eastern part of Guangxi Province. Outside mainland China, it is spoken by the majority population of Hong Kong and Macau in everyday life. It is also spoken by overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia（ like Malaysia, Christmas Island）， Canada, Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Panama, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the United States where it is the third most common language in the country.
Higher Education Mega Center
Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, also known as Guangzhou University Town, is a large university complex located in the southeast suburbs of Guangzhou. This huge higher education centre occupies the entire Xiaoguwei island in Panyu District, covering an area of about 18 square kilometers. It houses new campuses from ten universities, nine of which still maintain their old campuses in downtown Guangzhou. The whole Higher Education Mega Centre can eventually accommodate up to 200， 000 students， 20， 000 teachers and 50， 000 staff.
