The city was renamed in honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who often went by the name Zhongshan / Zungsaan.

In 1983, Zhongshan was elevated in administrative status from a county to a county-level city and again in 1988 to a prefecture-level city.

Zhongshan is a city of numerous leafy parks, wide boulevards and various monuments.

The seven story Fufeng Pagoda, built in 1608, which is visible from all over the city, is located on a hill in Zhongshan Park, which abuts the western end of Sunwen Road West immediately to its north.

Zhongshan is a prefecture-level city of the Guangdong province.

The city government directly administers five district officescorresponding to the urban area of Zhongshan proper ), 18 towns and a development zone:

The village is a 30-40 minutes by bus from Zhongshan city centre on Bus 12, and 50-minutes from the Zhongshan Passenger Ferry Dock on Bus 212.

Originally a county-level city, Zhongshan was elevated to prefecture level in January 1988.

* To Mei Chiew ( 荼薇酒 ; Mandarin: tú wéi jiǔ ) is a Cantonese liquor produced in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan prefecture-level city, Guangdong province, from rice wine, with added to mei ( 荼薇 ) flowers and crystal sugar syrup.

* Fusha, Guangdong ( 阜沙鎮 ), a town in the city of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province of China

This makes Shenyang-Fushun the 8th built up area in China after Pearl River Delta city ( including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Huizhou built up areas ), Shanghai-Suzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou-Shaoxing, Wuhan and Nanjing.

Zhongshan is a city in Guangdong, China.

It is situated at the southwest periphery of the city of Zhongshan.

Guzhen Town (; Cantonese: Gu2 Jan3 Jan3 ) is situated at the northwest periphery of the city of Zhongshan with a distance of 23 km from the city.

Xiaolan () is a small town situated at the northwest periphery of the city of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China.

Zhongshan Park () is a park in the city of Shanghai.

Chu Kong Passenger Transport ( CKS ) connects Hong Kong to cities in Guangdong province, including Zhuhai ( Jiuzhou ), Shenzhen ( Shekou ), Zhongshan ( Zhongshan Kong ), Lianhua Shan ( Panyu ), Jiangmen, Gongyi, Sanbu, Gaoming, Heshan, Humen, Nanhai, Shunde, Doumen.

His birthplace is commonly said to have been the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan ( later Zhongshan county ), Guangzhou prefecture, Guangdong Province.

Xiangshan, Sun's hometown in Guangdong, was renamed Zhongshan in his honor, and there is a hall dedicated to his memory at the Temple of Azure Clouds in Beijing.

*** Sun Yatsen 孫中山 / 孙中山 ( 1886-1925 ; Zhongshan, Guangdong ; Hakka pronunciation: Soon Tsung San ), Founding father of modern China

*** Sun Ke 孫科 / 孙科 ( 1891 – 1973 ; Zhongshan, Guangdong ), Premier of the Republic of China, 1931 – 1932, 1948 – 1949

The Qin Dynasty organized its territory into " Commanderies " () – roughly equivalent to a province or prefecture – and Zhongshan became part of the Nanhai Commandery (), which covered most of modern-day Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces.

* Nantou, Zhongshan ( 南头镇 ), town under the jurisdiction of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, China

Cuiheng () is a village of the town of Nanlang, Zhongshan Guangdong province, China.

Under the initial stage of the scheme, residents of Beijing, Shanghai, and 8 Guangdong provincial cities ( Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, Zhongshan and Zhuhai ) could apply for visas to visit the two Special Administrative Regions individually.

The county covered the modern-day Zhuhai City and Zhongshan City in the Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), and the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

Afterwards, the Main Street section of the town of Locke was settled and established by a group, headed by Lee Bing., of Chinese / American Businessmen Yuehai-speaking Chinese ( a dialect of Yue Chinese ) from the Zhongshan region of Guangdong province in China.

Professor Cai Wen ( 蔡文 ), born 1942 in Chenghai County, Guangdong Province, graduated from Zhongshan University in 1964.

Sun Yat-sen University, informally called Zhongshan University (), has a main campus in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, and a secondary one in Zhuhai.

Her ancestral roots are in Ho Chung village, Chung Shan County ( now in Zhongshan City ), Guangdong Province, China.

Yang was born in Shanghai on 30 June 1929 to an influential family which had roots in what was Nanguan in Xiangshan County of Guangnan East Circuit ( now Zhongshan, Guangdong Province ) since the early twelfth century, although they had resided in Shanghai since the early nineteenth century.

* Huangpu, Zhongshan ( 黄圃镇 ), town in Zhongshan, Guangdong

In 2002, Behringer completed its own factory, Behringer City, in Zhongshan of China's Guangdong province after it consolidated more than ten separate production locations into one vertically integrated plant.

Sun was born in Xiangshan ( now Zhongshan ), Guangdong, China.

Daling ( 大嶺 ), near Zhongshan City in Guangdong, China has been documented of having extensive History of Owyang, family records and family trees have been created and distributed to family members around the globe, commonly known as the Owyang Genealogy Book ( hardbound, blue cover ).

Rather, Emperor Guangwu, who has by that point created his sons only as dukes, promoted her son Liu Fu ( 劉輔 ) to Prince of Zhongshan and created her the Princess Dowager of Zhongshan — a title that had not previously been and would not be later used for any mother of an imperial prince whose husband was still alive.

Formerly known as South China Institute of Technology, it was established in 1952, through a reorganization process that unified the engineering schools and departments of major universities in Southern China, including the former Zhongshan University, Lingnan University, South China Joint University, and 4 others.

The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road ( East-1 Zhongshan Road ) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District.

This yearning came partly from a thorough miscarriage of justice perpetrated by Consort Fu in 6 BC when she, still bearing a grudge from her struggles with her former romantic rival Consort Feng Yuan ( who by that time was Princess Dowager of Zhongshan and the grandmother of Prince Liu Jizi of Zhongshan ), falsely accused Consort Feng of practicing magic, forced her to commit suicide, and executed and exiled a large number of her family.

After Emperor Ai died in 1 BC, Grand Empress Dowager Wang quickly seized power from Emperor Ai's male favorite and probable lover Dong Xian, and summoned Wang Mang back to Chang ' an to serve as regent to the new Emperor Ping -- the former Prince Jizi of Zhongshan.

She greatly favored former Empress Guo's youngest son Liu Yan, the Prince of Zhongshan, and after Empress Guo died in 52, she treated him as her own son.