Wider Image - China's Guangzhou rides economic change but keeps traditions

A man sleeps in a cart near a market in the traditional neighbourhood of Yuexiu in Guanghzou, China, September 8, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China's southern city of Guangzhou is at the heart of plans to link a cluster of cities in the Pearl River Delta, including Hong Kong and Macau, into a Greater Bay Area rivalling Silicon Valley and Greater Tokyo as an economic hub by 2035.

Sprawling over 56,000 sq km (21,600 sq miles) with a population of more than 70 million, the Greater Bay Area is the centrepiece of a drive by China's ruling Communist Party to establish a hub of advanced manufacturing and technology.