For centuries China 's most important seaport and the starting point of the maritime Silk Road , Guangzhou -LRB- formerly Canton and now a modern city of 10 million just 75 miles up the Pearl River from Hong Kong -RRB- played host to merchants from Rome and India as early as the second century A.D. and has long been intertwined with Western powers .
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