GUANGZHOU N'Golo Kante France Jersey , Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- When a recent sex trade crackdown brought the Chinese city of Dongguan under spotlight, netizens launched another online campaign featuring the city's glories.
On microblogs and online forums, people have uploaded and forwarded photos on Dongguan, "The Factory of the World," in the booming southern province of Guangdong, plotting its history from a fishing village to a manufacturing and logistics behemoth.
"Dongguan You May Not Know" called for local residents to be more proud of their city, and to tell the world about it.
"We produced one fifth of the world's digital products; we destroyed the country's opium here; we topped the Chinese Basketball Association league eight times; we attracted 10 million migrants..." said captions of the photos uploaded when the city was mocked as China's "Sex Capital" after prostitution busts and media exposure on Sunday.
By Wednesday, a total of 920 suspects had been apprehended and police had swooped on more than 18 Moussa Sissoko France Jersey ,000 entertainment venues in Guangdong, including karaoke bars, saunas, and massage parlors.
FACTORY OF WORLD
About 140 km away from Hong Kong, Dongguan used to be a small fishing village. In 1839, Lin Zexu, an official of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), burned 1 Morgan Schneiderlin France Jersey ,000 tonnes of opium confiscated from foreign dealers at Humen Township in Dongguan. The move triggered the First Opium War between China and Britain from 1840 to 1842, which resulted in Hong Kong's colonization for a century.
In the late 1970s, with opening up and reform, Dongguan, as Hong