Zhongshan Hotels

Zhongshan is a city in Guangdong Province, China. Sun Zhong Shan or Sun Yat Sen, who led the 1911 revolution against the Manchus and became president of China was from Zhongshan. His former home is now a museum. At one point, Zhongshan was the adminstrative capital of a region that included Zhuhai. Then Zhuhai became a Special Economic Zone with its own administration, and now it is the most important city of the area. Foreign staff of Zhongshan factories often prefer to live in Zhuhai and commute. The history of Zhongshan could be traced back to the middle and late Neolithic Age (about 5000 years ago) when the Gu Yue aboriginals fished, hunted, and settled on Xiangshan Island. Xiangshan was ever a part of Pan Yu County in the Han Dynasty, and a part of Dong Guan County in the Jin Dynasty. On 15th April 1925, it was renamed the Zhongshan County. On 30th October 1949, Zhongshan County was liberated. Since then, the county was divided into Zhuhai County, Doumen County and Panyu County and on 22nd December 1983, Zhongshan County was upgraded to Zhongshan City. Zhongshan has got immense tourism potential. It boasts of beautiful water country scenery, vast rice paddies with in numerous water channels, well known historic sites, and KMT's (the Nationalists') legacies. In recent years, this city has witnessed major developmental activities as it has been developing amazingly fast with booming township enterprises, urban construction and tourism.