The Guangzhou Uprising Museum was built in commemoration of the Guangzhou Commune, China's first soviet government. The museum sits on the site of the former Guangzhou Commune, occupying an area of about 5,000 square meters.

The museum was opened in 1987 and existing buildings include the Soviet government office (the central building), the uprising headquarters (the north building), the guards' dormitory, the ammunition depot, the prison, and the detention house. The central building displays historic objects of the Guangzhou Uprising.

The site of the former Guangzhou Commune is a national-level protected cultural heritage site.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 2 per person
Address: Unit 1, 200 Qiyi Road, Guangzhou City
Traffic: Take Bus No.108, 102, 107, 104, 244, 6, 14, 203 or 552 and get off at the front park station.

Guangzhou Zoo is one of large zoos that mainly display wild animals. It lies in the southeast of Middle Xianlie Road, covering 420,000 m2, built in 1958, with 400 kinds of rare animals from around the world—altogether 5,000 rare animals. It has bee listed as top 3 animals with Beijing Zoo and Shanghai Zoo.

The landscape of Guangzhou Zoo is wide, with lake, mountain, green trees and beautiful scenes. The animals' cages and residences are arranged reasonably in tree shadows, bushes, or mountains. Animals are living in the natural or semi-natural environments that are suitable for their natural instinct, which creates the most harmonious relations between human and animals.

There are imported rare animals like giraffes, antelopes and white rhinoceros. There are also domestic rare animals like panda, golden monkey and South Chinese tiger under 1st grade protection. On the top of Maying Rock in the north, lies the residence area for primates. On the south slope, there are medium a large size beast cages. In southwest slope, there are Bear Mountain, Lion Mountain, tiger mountain and hippopotamus pool. Across the lake from Maying Rock, there are monkey hill, panda hall, elephant room, giraffe hall, rhinoceros hall, zebra hall and deer hall. There are dozens of rare birds like red-crowned cranes, white swan, and black-necked cranes on the beautiful artificial lake, which also attracts a large number of migrating birds to stay.

Newly embraced in Guangzhou Zoo is a new exhibition hall with peculiar looks——Guangzhou Ocean World, which truthfully reappears the mysterious, changeable and splendid ocean world. It has been in high repute ever since its inauguration, attracting batches of visitors from home and abroad.

A large-scale and multi-functional scientific and technological exhibition hall that mixes together entertainment, appreciation, scientific research and education, Guangzhou Ocean World covers an area of about 13,000 sq. meters, with a total investment of US$ 50 million. It has been named Guangdong Educational Base for Popular Marine Science by the Science and Technology Association of Guangdong Province.

Guangzhou Ocean World is divided into several areas to reveal the submarine world in all directions, including Ocean Square, Relief Square, Submarine Tunnel, Deep Sea Scenery, Seaweed Pillar, Treasure Window, Fresh Water World, Rocky Seashore, Touch Pool, Sea Turtle Pool, Shark Hall, Hall of Popular Marine Science, Ocean Theatre, Sealion Amusement Park, etc. All these exhibition areas have distinctive specialties, vivid and true to life.

As Guangzhou is not close by the sea, designers adopted complete sets of imported equipment for life maintenance as well as the state-of-the-art technology for manmade seawater in order to enable the living creatures from the depth of the sea to settle down at Guangzhou Ocean World. It is these advanced equipment that make people's dream of “ocean on the land” come true.

Address: No.120, Xianlie Road
Tel: 87611250 87611884-1111, 1112
Fax: 87611919
Opening hour: 9:00Am-17:00Pm
Traffic: Buses No.6, 11, 16, 27, 33, 65, 122, 129, 133, 201, 209, 218, 220, 223, 234, 236, 269, 271, 272, 804 can take you there.

Situated at the Dongpu Village of Tianhe district in Guangzhou, the Guangzhou Olympic Center is a modern gymnasium, which was built mainly for the 9th National Game of China in 2001 by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, covering an area of 1.01 million square meters. It was completed in Sep. 2001, with a total construction area of 328,000 square meters. Designed by NEB Co. from the United States, this center has gymnasium, hockey field, archery range, horsemanship field, and baseball field etc, which boasts a beautiful environment with grass and trees all around. And the gymnasium inside it covers an area of 145,000 thousand square meters. Its roof, weighing 11,000 tons, is divided into two pieces of steel roof trusses from east to west and crookedly set on 21 groups of pillars, just like a floating ribbon, demonstrating that China will develop rapidly as a soaring dragon in the coming century. With 21 small stands, the pavilion can accommodate 80,000 spectators. The seats look like thousands of colorful petals, which gather to be a city flower of Guangzhou: Kapok. This magnificent scene becomes a visual center of the gymnasium, demonstrating the torch of human's unyielding spirit is suspended in the fluttering “ribbon”. The whole grand Olympic Center is one of the landmark buildings of Guangzhou, full of novelty and romance. In July 2002, it was evaluated as one of the Hot 8 scenic spots of Guangzhou in the new century, named “Five Rings Shining in the morning sun”.

The Guangzhou Museum is an integrated museum focused on the local history, set in the Zhenhai Tower in Mountain Yuexiu in Guangzhou. Construction of the Zhenhai Tower started in the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Hong Wu of the Ming Dynasty (1380 A.D.). In its more than 600 year history, the tower has destroyed and rebuilt five times. Originally a brick and wood structure, the tower was renovated into a reinforced concrete structure in 1928. It commands a panoramic view of Guangzhou, dubbed the “No.1 tower south of the Five Ridges”.

The museum's collection includes 50,000 artifacts in various categories, which are precious historic materials for researching Guangzhou's politics, economy, culture and outward communications and trade, as well as the city's construction and development.

To the west of the Zhenhai Tower stand China's oldest extant stele and barbette. The barbette holds town defense cannons cast in Guangzhou area during the period from the reign of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty to the Opium War, as well as steel cast cannons procured from Krupp Munitions Works.

Admission fee: RMB ￥ 10 per person
Address: Zhenhai Tower, Mountain Yuexiu, Guangzhou City
Opening Hour: 9:00-17:00
Traffic: Take Bus No.24, 63, 103, 104, 109, 110, 122 or 211 and get off at the Yuexiu Park station, or take Bus No.6, 10, 33, 36, 66, 184, 190, 191,  219 or 544 and get off at the Xiaobei Huaquan station; alternatively, take Metro Line 2 and get off at the Yuexiu Park station.