About this guide & our sourcing
About Foshan is a practical, English-language guide to visiting Foshan, China. Its one rule is simple: no made-up facts. Every hour, price, distance and population on the site is a cited, dated record — currently 118 facts drawn from 43 sources.
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How it works
Each factual claim is stored as a typed record with at least one source and a verification date. The same record feeds the visible text, the structured data search engines read, and the “last verified” stamp — so they can never quietly disagree. An automated check runs before every deploy and fails the build if any fact is missing a source or a date.
Where reputable sources disagree, we don't pick a winner and hide the rest — we record every value and show the honest range. Because hours and prices change, treat the verification date on each page as part of the fact, and confirm anything time-sensitive before you travel.
A few practical, on-the-ground claims — mainly in the shopping section — draw on our own first-party experience through our sister sourcing service, foshan.furniture. We label those firsthand, and still back any contestable figure with an independent source.
Our sources
Encyclopedia
Travel guides
News
Firsthand / first-party
Common questions
- How accurate is this guide?
- Every factual claim — hours, prices, distances, populations, metro status — is stored as a cited, dated record. An automated check runs on every build and fails it if any fact lacks a source or a verification date. Time-sensitive details can still change, so each page shows when it was last verified.
- Why do some figures show a range or a dotted underline?
- When reputable sources disagree (for example on Foshan's population or its distance to Guangzhou), we record every value and show the honest range rather than picking one and hiding the rest.
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