<i> A weekly look at noteworthy addresses in the Southland. </i>

Li Ziliu, Mayor of Guangzhou (Canton), People’s Republic of China, spoke Monday at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Century City. His speech was sponsored by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, in cooperation with the Los Angeles-Guangzhou Sister City Assn. From Li’s address: On Guangzhou “Located on the Pearl River Delta and adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau, Guangzhou, being the commercial, economic and cultural center, is the largest city in South China with a history of 2,800 years. . . . Over 3 million tourists come to the city every year. . . . Guangzhou has been twinned with eight sister cities and has set up trade relations with 130 countries.”

On Foreign Trade “Guangzhou will be always open to foreign investors. The 1990s will be a very important decade for China’s economic and social development. As one of the open coastal cities in China, Guangzhou will experience a higher level of development than the average (for) the country. We estimate an annual average increase of 7% in the city’s GNP in the next few years, pre-fulfilling the target of the country to double the GNP of 1980 by the year 1995. . . . We understand the difficulties lying ahead in the course of our economic reform. We’ve got a lot of work to do. We are willing to conduct the friendly exchange and economic cooperation with America and other countries on the basis of mutual benefit.”

Looking Ahead * Sunday: Msgr. Royal M. Vadakin of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will deliver the inaugural address of a new lecture series on Judaism at 7 p.m. after a 5 p.m. reception and fund-raising dinner at Occidental College. For more information, call (213) 965-6324. Cost of the dinner and lecture is $50.

Announcements concerning prominent speakers in Los Angeles should be sent to Speaking Up, c/o Times researcher Michael Meyers, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, Calif. 90053