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The Sea Battle Museum incorporating the Opium Wars Museum is located just to the south east of the Weiyuan Fort. The museum focuses on the naval battles over the Opium Wars (the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842, the Second Opium War from 1856 to 1860. Composed of an exhibition hall, memorial square, and the sea wall. An important role of the Museum is to educate the public about the Humen Battery (Weiyuan Fort), also the museum is one of the top three drug control education bases in China.
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Guangdong Province, referred to as "Yue ", the provincial capital Guangzhou, the jurisdiction of cities in 21 provinces, including two deputy provincial cities (Guangzhou, Shenzhen), prefecture-level cities 19. Formerly Kwangtung, Canton, is Pinyin GuǎngDōng. Guangdong is the southern coast of mainland China, a province located south of Nanling, the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Macao, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian border, and Hainan across the sea. It is a Han Chinese as the main provinces, the country's 56 ethnic groups are distributed in the province. Guangdong customs and in language, history and culture, have a unique aspect, the internal department has three people, and northern China are very different. Guangdong GDP value has surpassed Taiwan as China's most economically developed provinces in the most open culture.