宋、元交替之際，廣州係宋軍同元軍最後嘅爭奪之地，戰亂中城池受到嚴重破壞，對外通商陷於停頓。1278年（元至元十五年），建制係江西行中書省轄廣東道及廣州路治。1279年（至元十六年）崖山之役後，元政府完全控制咗廣州（嶺南）地區；同年，元政府派出咗廣東招討使出使俱藍，招諭印度半島同東南亞國家過返來通商朝貢。1286年（至元二十三年），廣州始恢復市舶司設置。
At the turn of the Song and Yuan dynasties, Guangzhou was the last place of contention between the Song and Yuan armies, and the city was seriously damaged in the war, and foreign trade came to a standstill. In 1278 (Yuan to Yuan 15 years), the establishment was Jiangxi Xingzhongshu Province under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Road and Guangzhou Road. After the Battle of Yashan in 1279 (to the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty), the Yuan government took full control of the Guangzhou (Lingnan) region; in the same year, the Yuan government sent an envoy from Guangdong to invite the India Peninsula and Southeast Asian countries to return to trade and pay tribute. In 1286 (to the twenty-third year of the Yuan Dynasty), Guangzhou began to restore the establishment of the city.