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The article says " The Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are officially considered to be province-level as well, though in reality they have much more autonomy than regular provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities. ".
Nowhere in the PRC's constitution or in the basic laws of the two SARs says SARs are designated province level. They are local administrative regions come directly under the Central People's Government (note: ≠ State Council). Autonomous regions, provinces and municipalities are listed in the same sentence of Article 30 of the constitution, which governs the administrative divisions of the PRC. SARs are governed by Article 31. — Insta ntnood 19:17, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
The map showing the provinces of China according to the ROC has a designation for Aksai Chin as territory "claimed by India, administered by PRC". But since this map is based on the ROC's claims, the question should be whether it is claimed by the ROC, with India's claims not being the subject here. -- Metropolitan90 23:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
cgy01, Wikipedia is not space-deficient, and obviously there is some disagreement with your removal. "I want a..." sounds like a violation of WP:OWN. This is everyone's article, your aesthetics are only one consideration. Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) ( talk) 15:55, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
who do you think you are? really? wikipedia is for the community, why do you get to be the boss and why is it that all edits must receive your approval? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cgy01 ( talk • contribs) 02:13, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
most populous city should be removed as this is typically the same as the capital.. also the Chinese characters for the province capitals should be re-added. I added them a couple of years ago (w/ pinyin too!) and someone took it out —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.151.8.160 ( talk) 19:24, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
The page containing both types of characters does not appear to be unnecessarily cluttered, and the traditional characters to add valuable and interesting information, and they do make sense from a historical perspective because many (most?) of the names pre-date the introduction of simplified characters. Readin ( talk) 14:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Um, it's sort of hard to give a third opinion without seeing any sort of discussion. Can someone explain what's been going on here? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 03:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
This map is like a superset though, it has all the provinces and autonomous regions when people search for China provinces they just want to see a map of China and how it is seperated, they won't know to do a search of things like china municipalities and china autonomous regions, if you want people to goto your autonomous regions page and specific municipalities page then you should make a link on the provinces page, but i don't think you need to be so detailed to change the map to have "provinces only".. that is being a little anal. -cgy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cgy01 ( talk • contribs) 04:14, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
ahh i see now, yes this is the page i was looking for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_China okay i agree w/ your changes Chan ( talk) 01:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
The article as it reads simply states that the secretary of the Communist Party's provincial committee is the leader of each province, as opposed to the governor of the province. This may in fact be demonstrably the case, but it can't simply be declared: it's certainly disputable, and needs to be backed up by evidence. -- Jammoe ( talk) 17:01, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
Fujian province is missing a "22" in the map. Otherwise, fabulous work. Tooironic ( talk) 00:11, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps there should be some kind of mention of other regions that may not officially be provinces. For example, there is no mention of Tibet, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Chongqing and the special city districts (Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin). None of these are mentioned in the table or text. The image is not loading for me right now so I can't be sure if they are shown there. Ninjawailer ( talk) 09:09, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
Page moved. Vegaswikian ( talk) 19:16, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
Province (China) → Provinces of the People's Republic of China – similar to other "Provinces of _____" articles. — ASDFGH =] talk? 01:27, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
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Is it necessary to mark Taiwan as "dead"? The symbol is inappropriate.-- 77.0.111.59 ( talk) 19:02, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng), formally province-level administrative divisions (Chinese: 省级行政区; pinyin: Shěng Jí Xíngzhèngqū) are the highest-level Chinese administrative divisions. There are 34 such divisions, classified as 22 provinces, 4 municipalities, 5 autonomous regions, 2 Special Administrative Regions, and the claimed Taiwan Province.
This passage doesn't indicate we are talking about PRC. The Republic of China on Taiwan also states in its laws that Taiwan is part of China, so does RC claim the whole PRC and more. It must be made clear that PRC and RC claim each other, it's not only the PRC. -- 2.245.192.184 ( talk) 14:06, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
I earlier spent some time tidying up the map captions, to make them clearer and remove irrelevant detail from the third. The changes included
I was blocked from editing on wikipedia by a user named Ruslik0. I think he/she has blocked me for making a correction to an article titled "Provinces of China" in which I made a change to the wording of Taiwan "Province", basically eliminating the title of Province. The PRC claims Taiwan as a province, of course, but for the vast majority of the 23 million citizens of Taiwan, this is not how they identify themselves. There is a good proportion of people in Taiwan (though still a minority) who would like to see Taiwan and China unified, but easily less than 0.01% of them would do so under the auspices of the PRC or CCP. Furthermore, the major portion of the Taiwan population would just as well have nothing to do with China if they we given a choice without threat of war or invasion. The fact is that Taiwan is an independently administered state. It is large, stable and economically independent, and has been for 70 years. It has it's own standing military, free-floating currency, legislative government, open democratic elections, and is among the top 20 or so economies in the world. The PRC has never held any jurisdiction over Taiwan, and even the old ROC only held jurisdiction over Taiwan for a couple of years before the ROC government exiled itself to Taiwan in 1949. Moreover, the term "Province" is now an anachronism because the ROC government dissolved the Taiwan "provincial government" entity in the early 1990s. Previous to that time, the ROC legislature on Taiwan had representation of all the provinces of China, but then decided in all practicality to dissolve provincial representation, including that of Taiwan. Obviously Ruslik0 is a proponent of the CCP's perspective of the situation, but he/she should not be allowed to block an edit simply because it runs counter to that perspective. If Ruslik0 is the author of the article, then he/she ought to be allowed to raise a complaint, but must at least accommodate an opposing view such as mine to exist in juxtaposition to his/her in the same article. I believe the wording of the article as it exists is misguided and spreads misinformation, nor does it reflect the central reality of 23 million people. This fact should be clearly noted on such an important platform as wikipedia. In regard to this issue, CCP censors have been waging an information war in western media and education, and unfortunately they have been winning by virtue of threats, financial leverage and sheer numbers. I don't see voices like mine overcoming their bullying approach throughout the world any time soon, but I would believe that at least a platform like wikipedia would not cave to their manipulations. Thank you, Daniel Brownwood PS what exactly is "Ruslik0"? Why does he/she have the ability to block me and my wiki account? I can't even access my account to change my password. Neptunechampiom ( talk) 07:34, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
proponent of the the CCP's perspective, when he has not even edited this page! CaradhrasAiguo ( leave language) 20:42, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your clear and thoughtful response. My account was blocked to editing around midday on Feb 2, and Ruslik0 was listed as the blocking agent. I sent off an appeal in a couple of directions, and it seems the block was lifted later that day, though I received no direct response to the effect that block was actively lifted. As for the information I was trying to amend, I will try to find primary source material(ROC gov't records or news articles) to use to cite my dispute with the designation of "province". I assume if such source material is available and accessible to wiki readers that then the dispute on terminology will stand in this article. As for "minority" viewpoints, it is true the population ratio between PRC and Taiwan is roughly 40/1, but that does not mean this issue is a random or fringe concern. Neptunechampiom ( talk) 00:53, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
Can anyone provide a source for these? These don't seem to be official. -- 2001:16B8:31DE:A700:7172:9BDF:B0FA:FE41 ( talk) 22:08, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
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Why is the infobox referring to both the People's Republic of China's provinces and Taiwan's claimed provinces? Since sources overwhelmingly refer to the PRC as "China", I feel it doesn't make sense to create this overlap between the two. Maybe we can mention Taiwan's position later in the article? Thoughts? LittleCuteSuit ( talk) 21:01, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
I don't know much about this, but it seems that during the Japanese Occupation, Provinces were referred to as Districts in English. Did that reflect a change in Chinese usage? There is already a page for Mengkiang, a puppet state and later autonomous district created by the Japanese from parts of three Republican Provinces. There was another district that was a new creation by the Japanese authorities (or the Reorganised National Government of the Republic of China as the puppet state was called) - called 蘇北 Sūběi, usually rendered as Supeh in English texts. As the name suggests, I believe it was approximately what is now the northern part of Jiangsu. The Japanese authorities briefly issued postage stamps for the district in 1941, as they did in the other "Six Districts" of Northern China, in order to prevent people taking advantage of currency variations between different occupied districts and between occupied and Nationalist controlled regions. At present there is no article on Supeh on Wikipedia. Should there be? WestNab ( talk) 21:31, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
I hereby propose to remove the country comparison column. The information given is not useful in any way or form and it is not even accurate (e. g. Hebei 74 - Germany 83). It is just a distraction. If nobody contests, I will remove the column. Taliopo ( talk) 10:37, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
What does the pale yellow coloring mean for Fujian, Guangdong, and Hainan? At least on the mobile version, I could not find any legend for the table or any other explanation of what the colors mean. I can deduce what the pink and green mean, but I have no idea about that off-white/light-yellow color. Please add a legend to the table. Thegoldenconciseencyclopediaofmammals ( talk) 16:33, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Why is Taiwan on the map of China if Taiwan is not a part of China? 100.16.157.193 ( talk) 21:27, 30 June 2023 (UTC)