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Provinces of China

Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently 22 provinces administered by the PRC and one province that is claimed, but not administered, which is Taiwan, currently administered by the Republic of China (ROC).

This article is about provinces in the People's Republic of China. For all province-level divisions of China, see Province-level divisions of China. For the Republic of China, see Administrative divisions of Taiwan.

Provinces
省
Shěng

Unitary state

 People's Republic of China

22 (1 claimed)

省

省

shěng

shěng

ཞིང་ཆེན།

zhing chen

zhing chen

Xingqên

Swngj

ᠮᠤᠵᠢ

Moji

Moji

ئۆلكە‎

Ölke

Ölke

Ɵlkə

Öleä

ᡤᠣᠯᠣ

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The local governments of Chinese provinces consists of a Provincial People's Government headed by a governor that acts as the executive, a Provincial People's Congress with legislative powers, and a parallel provincial branch of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that elects a Party Secretary and a Provincial Standing Committee.

Government[edit]

Provinces are the most common form of province-level governments. The legislative bodies of the provinces are the Provincial People's Congresses. The executive branch is the Provincial People's Government, led by a governor. The People's Government is answerable to both the State Council and the Provincial People's Congress. The provincial branch of the CCP has a Provincial Party Congress every five years, and elects a Standing Committee to exercise its authority when not in session. The Provincial Party Secretary is the de facto most important position in the province.[1][2][3]

Federalism in China

Administrative divisions of China

List of Chinese administrative divisions by GDP

List of Chinese administrative divisions by population

List of current Chinese provincial leaders

Regional discrimination in China

Tiao-kuai

Yangtze Delta

Zhou (administrative division)

Special administrative region (Republic of China)

Goodman, David S.G. (2015). Handbook of the Politics of China. Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Saich, Tony (2015). Governance and Politics of China (Fourth ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Chung, Jae Ho; Lam, Chiu (2010). China's Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in the Sub-National Hierarchy. New York: Routledge.

Fitzgerald, John (2002). Rethinking China's Provinces. New York: Routledge.

Archived 2016-04-06 at the Wayback Machine — with economic indicators for all Chinese Provinces.

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