Growing into a town, it became the seat of the subprefect or "keun-min-foo" (t s "jūnmínfǔ") charged with dealing with the foreign settlement and overseeing their trade with Guangzhou ("Canton").
Growing into a town, it became the seat of the subprefect or "keun-min-foo" (t s "jūnmínfǔ") in 1731. He was charged with dealing with the foreign settlement and overseeing their trade with Guangzhou ("Canton").