Translation of "Perlflussdelta" in English

The largest logistics centres in the country are Shanghai, the Pearl River Delta and Beijing.

The Pearl River Delta is one of the largest connected urban landscapes in the world.

Already twenty years ago, the communist government declared the Pearl River Delta a special economic zone.

Modern freeways have been built in the Pearl River delta as well as in Shanghai and Beijing.

The Chinese infrastructure project involved the construction of several bridges, tunnels and man-made islands at the Pearl River delta.

Guangdong is home to tens of thousands of factories located in the Pearl River delta which produce approximately a quarter of all goods exported from China.

The Bocca Tigris (), Bogue, or Humen is a narrow strait in the Pearl River Delta, near Humen (town), Guangdong Province, China, where the Pearl River discharges into the South China Sea.

But the lion’s share of this industrial haze – like the growing pollution of its coastal waters – is a direct result of the rapid industrialization of the Pearl River Delta across the border in China’s Guangdong Province.

There are roughly 58,000 factories in the Pearl River Delta with Hong Kong connections, and together they employ more than 10 million workers.

After a visit to the Pearl River Delta by Premier Wen Jiabao, who was in favour of protecting small and medium-sized enterprises in order to prevent unemployment, the Wang-led Guangdong government showed resistance adhering to central government directives which called for heavier state intervention.

As in the previous years, 30 students of the Bachelor of Science program attended a two weeks’ management abroad course in the Pearl River Delta (mainly Guangzhou area and Hong Kong).

Weighing in at 4,850 tons and with a diameter of 17.6 meters, the giant Mixshield is the largest TBM ever built to date and completed 646 meters of mega-tunnel tube for a new road tunnel under the Pearl River Delta in less than 8 months.

Meanwhile we hear about mass revolts of entire company workforces in the Chinese Pearl River Delta, who violently resist the abrupt factory closures and the non-payment of the wages they are entitled to.

The strikes in the Chinese Pearl River delta in 2004 at the peak of the boom marked the first big cycle of struggles in the 'new factories'.

There have already been angry protests by laid-off factory workers in the Pearl River delta, the main region in China producing light manufactures for First World markets.

In China, the project centres on the Pearl River delta with its African trading centres in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and the free-trade area in Shenzhen.

The Institute of Tropical and Marine Technology in Southern China studies the influence of aerosols and gases on the climate and air quality in the Pearl River delta.

Ralf Huebner became acquainted with China not only with the highly developed coastal regions at locations like Shanghai and East China, the South Chinese Pearl River delta and Tianjin but also with the south western hinterland in Sichuan and Chongqing and the northern parts of China.

An extreme example of this urbanization in coastal wetlands is the Pearl River Delta in the middle of the coastal province of Guangdong in the south of China.

But if we take into account the entire Pearl River Delta, then we are talking about a population of well over 50 million.

It comprises a series of bridges and tunnels that connect Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai in the Pearl River Delta in China.

Experts expect growth in this region to persist until the Pearl River Delta is home to around 100 million people by 2030.

From a single Chinese province, Guangdong in the Pearl River Delta, which is the size of Baden- Württemberg and is termed the "workbench of the world".

This includes the so-called Pearl River delta in the Guangdong province with the special economic zone Shenzhen, Shanghai located in the Yangtze delta as well as the metropolitan area of Beijing.

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) is an ongoing construction project which connects Hong Kong at its east end to Zhuhai and Macao at its west end, and will provide a significant part of the expressway in the Pearl River Delta regional transportation loop.

While nationally the majority are male, the assembly lines of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta, for example, one of the largest factory cities in China, have drawn the young and unskilled and have been estimated to be 70 percent female.

Two other important ports are located in neighboring Shenzhen and Guangzhou, making the region around the Pearl River delta China’s most important logistics center.