There are 139 &”;villages in the city&”; in Guangzhou, which are distributed in five old cities, namely Tianhe District (28), Haizhu District (20), Baiyun District (58), Fangcun District (17) and Huangpu District (16). By the end of 2003, the permanent registered population of &”;Village in the City&”; was more than 300,000, and the population scale exceeded 1 million.