Humen

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Humen (虎门镇), also known as Taiping, is a county-level city within the Dongguan prefecture-level city, on the eastern side of the Bocca Tigris on the east bank of the Pearl River Delta, in the Guangdong Province of southern China.

Humen is a thriving city crowded with consumer-goods factories. These factories also fueled population expansion from emigrating workers around the country seeking factory jobs. Furthermore, Humen is geographically advantageous for the factories due to its proximity to two large metropolitan cities and exporting harbors, namely Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

The Weiyuan Fort and the Humen BridgeThe history of Humen is linked to the First Opium War (1839-1842). It is in Humen that Lin Zexu supervised the burning of large quantities of seized opium (1839). Some major battles in the First Opium War were fought here and in the Bocca Tigris.