Panyu is a plain with the beautiful surrounding of Pearl River Delta and with crisscross rivers in the city. It's one of the most well-developed areas in economy and famous for her commercial grain, fruits, vegetables, sugar cane production base and has.always been called "the land of fish and rice" as well as "a land of culture".

Panyu is convenient in land and water transportation, with the city seat-Shiqiao as the centre, trunk highways radiate to every direction. Yinbin Road and Nansha Avenque are the first-class highways with six lanes and is the juncture of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Zhuhai expressways under construction Lianhuashan Port and Nansha Port are the open ports of passengers and freight transport. There are many regular passenger ships to and from Kowloon & Hongkong every day.

Panyu has been brought into Guangzhou city.