The home side showed little threat and it was no surprise when Christian Poulsen put the Reds ahead on 19 minutes, tucking away Joe Cole's deep cross at the back-post.
Ngog, who had already had a goal disallowed for offside, doubled LFC's lead on 22 minutes from Shelvey's through-ball.
More chances came and went, including another offside goal from Ngog before Guangdong pulled a goal back close to half-time with a bullet header from Ricard Steer.
Kenny Dalglish made 11 substitutions at half-time with the likes of Andy Carroll, Dirk Kuyt and Daniel Agger all coming on along with the Charlie Adam for his debut in a Red shirt.
Liverpool continued to dominate and went further ahead when promising youngster Conor Coady raced into the box and dispatched a powerful drive to put the Reds 3-1 ahead on 72 minutes.
Carroll and Maxi then combined for a 4th after 85 minutes, with the big Geordie finishing off from close-range.
Guangdong, disappointingly for Reds fans, pulled 2 goals back in injury-time from Lu Lin and Yin Hongboand and the game ended 3-4.
All in all this was a very satisfying run-out for the Reds, plenty of goals, a few too many against but it's only the first game.
Hopefully we don't concede 3 in every game and I'm sure there's more to come, including the return of Steven Gerrard and Pepe Reina.
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