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The goal of WikiProject Chinese provinces aims primarily to standardize entries of the province-level divisions of the PRC. It is likely not going to cover Macau and Hong Kong as those are covered by WikiProject Countries.

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Contents 1 Participants 2 Structure 3 Templates 4 History 5 Geography 6 Administrative divisions 6.1 List of county-level divisions 7 Economy 8 Demographics 9 Culture 9.1 Famous people 9.2 Stereotypes 10 Transportation 11 Tourism 12 Miscellaneous topics 13 External links

[edit] Participants

1. Abstrakt (talk · contribs)
2. AQu01rius (talk · contribs)
3. Colipon (talk · contribs)
4. Ddstretch (talk · contribs) (mainly Hunan Province)
5. DF08 (talk · contribs)
6. Ktsquare (talk · contribs)
7. Lorenzarius (talk · contribs)
8. Olivier (talk · contribs)
9. Ran (talk · contribs)
10. ricegoneWILD (talk · contribs) (Autonomous regions)

[edit] Structure

See template section for now

Locator maps: Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese provinces/Locator maps

[edit] Templates

When tagging, place {{WPCHINA|provinces=yes}} on article talk page:

WikiProject China		ChinaWikipedia:WikiProject ChinaTemplate:WikiProject ChinaChina-related articles
v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject China, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of China related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by the Chinese provinces workgroup.

(Note that in this example the notice has been classified as "NA", so that it will not appear on the list of unassessed articles. This will not happen normally if the above code is used.)

For the infobox, don't forget to replace the "_" with the name of the article being converted. For the table, replace the X's with the proper information.

Note: These guidelines are flexible and are not meant to be perfectly followed or strictly enforced. Use whatever works best for each article.

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{{{EnglishName}}}
Chinese : {{{ChineseName}}} {{{Pinyin}}}
Abbreviations: {{{Abbreviation}}}  (pinyin: {{{AbbrevPinyin}}})
[[Image:{{{Map}}}|{{{MapSize}}}|{{{Name}}} is highlighted on this map]]
Origin of name	{{{OriginOfName}}}
Administration type	{{{AdministrationType}}}
Capital	{{{Capital}}}
Largest city
CPC Ctte Secretary	{{{Secretary}}}
Governor	{{{Governor}}}
Area	km2 (Expression error: Missing operand for * sq mi) ({{{AreaRank}}})
Population ([[{{{PopYear}}}]])  - Density	{{{Pop}}} ({{{PopRank}}})  /km2 (Expression error: Missing operand for * /sq mi) ({{{PopDensityRank}}})
GDP ([[{{{GDPYear}}}]])  - per capita	CNY {{{GDP}}} ({{{GDPRank}}}) CNY {{{GDPperCapita}}} ({{{GDPperCapitaRank}}})
HDI ([[{{{HDIYear}}}]])	{{{HDI}}} ({{{HDICat}}}) ({{{HDIRank}}})
Ethnic composition	{{{Nationalities}}}
Prefecture-level
County-level
Township-level*
ISO 3166-2	CN-{{{ISOAbbrev}}}
Official website {{{Website}}}
Source for population and GDP data: 《中国统计年鉴—2005》 China Statistical Yearbook 2005 ISBN 7503747382 Source for nationalities data: 《2000年人口普查中国民族人口资料》 Tabulation on nationalities of 2000 population census of China ISBN 7105054255 *As at December 31, 2004
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Definition paragraph.

• Put simplified characters, traditional characters, pinyin, Wade-Giles, postal pinyin. Please bold postal pinyin.
• Neighbouring provinces and countries.
• Etymology of name
• Abbreviation, and etymology
• Nicknames (if any), and etymology

The table is at the top of the page in all articles about provinces.

[edit] History

Include:

• Worldly events since ancient times
• When the province was formed; major changes in boundary/structure etc.
• Recent events
• Recent list of governors
• Recent list of Party secretaries

[edit] Geography

Include:

• Topography (e.g. high in the west, low in the east...)
• Mountains, peaks, highest peak
• Rivers and bodies of water; coastline and islands (if any)
• Climate
• Include map if available

[edit] Administrative divisions

List the prefecture-level divisions of this province. Give number and type of county-level and township-level divisions. List the county-level divisions in a separate article (see below).

[edit] List of county-level divisions

This should be a separate article because the size of this table is huge (except for the municipalities and Hainan).

There are two conflicting styles currently in use: examples are List of administrative divisions of Hebei and List of administrative divisions of Hunan. (See [1]for another design.) Unless the two styles are reconciled it is hard for any more tables to be made. You are welcome to make comments or suggestions in the talk page.

For conventions on how to name the counties, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese).

[edit] Economy

Include:

• Overview by sectors. Statistics bureau of each province should provide detailed statistics
• Major industries - agriculture first, then mining, then manufacturing
• Major outputs
• Standard of living compare to other part of country
• Major ports, SEZ's, etc.
• Stock Exchange (for Shanghai and Guangdong)

[edit] Demographics

Include:

• Urban population and rural population; permanent population and floating population; and standards of living within each group. Statistics bureau of each province should provide detailed statistics
• List major ethnic groups, population and percentage of each

[edit] Culture

Include:

• Languages dialects or languages
• Cuisine. Major features of the cuisine; a few typical dishes
• Local produce, arts and crafts, etc.
• Operas and musical forms

[edit] Famous people

Use a bulleted list. It would be good to give birth / death year, and a brief one-line description for each. See Jiangsu.

[edit] Stereotypes

Stereotypes form an important part (perhaps the only part) of the impressions Chinese people have about provinces. But these are also dangerously POV. So please phrase these NPOVly. Besides, it is important to use correct and clear adverbial modifiers in the description, so as to keep incorrect or outdated stereotypes from spreading further. For example, the sentence

In the first several years of the 21th century there was a widespread stereotype in China that people from Henan were liars and cheats...

is much more accurate than

In recent years it has become popular in China to stereotype people from Henan as liars and cheats...

[edit] Transportation

Include:

• Railroads
• Highways (guodao 国道)
• Expressways (gaosugonglu 高速公路)
• Major seaports
• Major airports
• Any subway / lightrail systems?

[edit] Tourism

Include:

• City sites
• Historical sites
• Natural sites
• World Heritage sites

[edit] Miscellaneous topics

Include:

• Sports teams
• List major Colleges and Universities

[edit] External links

Bureau of Statistics

(put this box at the bottom of every page):

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