971年（開寶四年），北宋太祖趙匡胤征服返南漢國，然之後廢咗興王府同鹹甯、常康二縣，改返叫廣州，轄南海、番禺、增城、清遠、懷集、信安、新會、東莞八縣，屬嶺南道，廣州市舶司延續設立。由於呢陣時中西陸路交通幾乎陷於停頓，海運就喺兩宋時代保持著興盛。北宋陣廣州仲係最大貿易海港，來到廣州貿易同向朝廷朝貢嘅國家有50幾個，數目超過咗唐代。
In 971 (Kaibao four years), Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Northern Song Dynasty, conquered back to the Southern Han Kingdom, and then abolished the Xing Wangfu and Xianyun and Changkang two counties, changed back to call Guangzhou, and governed Nanhai, Panyu, Zengcheng, Qingyuan, Huaiji, Xin'an, Xinhui, Dongguan eight counties, belonging to Lingnan Road, Guangzhou City Bosi continued to be established. Since the land transportation between China and the West has almost come to a standstill, maritime transportation has maintained its prosperity since the Song and Song dynasties. Guangzhou was also the largest trading port in the Northern Song Dynasty, and there were more than 50 countries that came to Guangzhou to trade and pay tribute to the imperial court, surpassing the number of Tang Dynasty.