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	City in China = County in U.S.
		Since the Chinese counties almost equal to US cities, and China has so many provinces, cities, counties with a large population, the population of China is overwhelming to that of US.
		Counties in the western USA are much larger than counties in the eastern USA.
		Some counties in the eastern USA are the size of cities in the western USA.
	home.wangjianshuo.com /archives/20060608_city_in_china_county_in_us.htm (873 words)

	County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The county remains one of the oldest levels of government in China and significantly predates the establishment of provinces in the Ming dynasty.
		The county of Oslo is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo.
		At the county level there is a county administrative board led by a governor appointed by the central government of Sweden, as well as an elected county council that handles a separate set of issues, notably hospitals and public transportation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/County (2591 words)

	Ethnologue report for China
		Fugong and Gongshan counties, Nujiang Nu-Lisu Autonomous Prefecture of northwestern Yunnan.
		Sidaba is in Caodeng, Kangshan, and Ribu townships in Sidaba District of Maerkang County.
		Lushui and Fugong counties in Nujiang Lusu Autonomous Prefecture of northwestern Yunnan.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=China (8374 words)

	County of China -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		There are 1467 counties in (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) mainland China out of a total of 2861 county-level divisions.
		The current number of (additional info and facts about counties) counties mostly resembled that of the later years of (The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during the Qing dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu) Qing Dynasty.
		The head of a county was the (A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice) magistrate, who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/county_of_china.htm (704 words)

	County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		While New South Wales was divided into counties in the early days of the colony, often preceding European settlement, hundreds, parishes and counties became dead letters for most purposes other that the registration of land ownership, which under the Torrens title system, is centralised in the state capital of Sydney.
		In addition "County Tipperary" is actually two counties, called North Tipperary and South Tipperary while the major urban centres Cork, Galway, Limerick, and Waterford have been separated from the town and rural areas of their counties.
		County sheriffs are the principal agents of law enforcement in some states, for areas outside of cities and towns.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/County.htm (2398 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty.
		In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure — in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached.
		The head of a county was the magistrate, who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=County_of_China (561 words)

	China County Page
		Cargill operates 25 wholly owned companies and joint ventures within 16 provinces in China.
		Cargill actively seeks further guidance and support for its activities from the Chinese Government and partners to better understand the needs and the requirements of Chinese market to ensure collaboration on achieving China’s agricultural goals.
		Cargill Investments (China) Ltd. is a wholly owned investment holding company headquartered in Shanghai, with branch offices in Beijing and Dalian.
	www.cargill.com /worldwide/china.htm (215 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Country profile: China
		China is the world's most populous country, with a continuous culture stretching back nearly 4,000 years.
		China is the largest oil consumer after the US, and the world's biggest producer and consumer of coal.
		China is also becoming a major market for pay-TV; it is forecast to have 128 million subscribers by 2010.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1287798.stm (1294 words)

	Expanding Fever Clinics In Gangcha County, Qinghai China
		The IFAW claims that China restricts dog ownership and the shelters in China are overcrowded.
		On the surface this appears to be a humane act, however, given the situation with bird flu and also Foot and Mouth Disease, I am not sure this is prudent.
		China has admitted that fever clinic(s) were being expanded, but there have been no reports of who is being admitted to these clinics.
	www.rense.com /general65/expa.htm (456 words)

	China Data Center - University of Michigan
		China Statistical Yearbook 1998 is published in both English and Chinese by the China Statistical Publication House of the State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China.
		The 1990 China county boundary GIS Data was developed by a team from CIESIN, CASM (Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping) and CITAS (China in Time and Space, a joint project of University of Washington, University of Michigan, University of California at Davis and CIESIN).
		County level boundaries with generalized coastline corresponding to end-of-year administrative geography used for statistical reporting, and mid year geography used for population census.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/chinadata/data2.htm (1036 words)

	Xinjiang reports bird flu cases__English_SINA.com
		China's National Avian Flu Reference Laboratory confirmed the virus, which was found in the dead fowls sent from some family farms in Zepu Country and Urumqi County, both in southern Xinjiang,the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, said the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Tuesday.
		Amid the uneasy atmosphere caused bird flu, the news that the quarantine on the epidemic was lifted in Tianchang City of Anhui and Xiangtan County of central China's Hunan Province on Tuesday injected confidence for the Chinese government on its disease control capacity.
		At Wantang Village of Xiangtan county, veterinary staff and villagers celebrated the end of the quarantine by burning their protective suits and warning banners that had been used to cordoned off the area.
	english.sina.com /p/1/2005/1115/53635.html (740 words)

	Orange County, China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orange County, China refers to a $60 million, 143-unit housing development situated about one hour north of Beijing, China, comprised entirely of expensive American-style townhouses and tract homes, decorated and furnished with American products.
		The Chinese developer Zhang Bo built the community to anticipate the 2008 Olympics to be held in Beijing.
		All 143 units were sold within a month of going on sale, in a phenomenon the Beijing media called "The Orange Storm." Designed by architect Aram Bassenian, who authentically hails from Newport Beach, California, the Orange County development is an example of wealthy Chinese literally adopting the suburban American lifestyle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orange_County,_China (181 words)

	County’s agreement with China made 2001 unique
		By June, Dakota County library patrons were clamoring to get their hands on an electronic reader, a paperback-sized electronic book capable of storing 10 titles or more.
		Before the first meeting, staff and county commissioners grappled with the severity of the national disaster, clinging around a radio for the latest word of the attacks in New York.
		After Dakota County Sheriff Don Gudmundson and many deputies and courthouse bailiffs searched the premises, nothing out of the ordinary was found and workers were allowed back into their offices.
	www.thisweek-online.com /2002/january/4county.html (1140 words)

	USCPFA Visit to Dazu County, China
		Dazu county in China is one of the most lush and yet poor places in the country.
		The forty groups of more than five thousand pieces of stone carvings are scattered within the boundary of the county, especially on North Hill (Beishan) and Precious Crown Hill (Baodingshan).
		From the events in Dazu County and the banquets in Chongqing, we traveled to Tibet.
	www.uscpfa.org /CPAFFC50/dazu.html (237 words)

	Newsfront for United Nations Development Programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		UNDP is joining with China's Ministry of Science and Technology in a $2.5 million pilot project to show how new information and communications technology (ICT) can be mobilized to reduce poverty in rural areas.
		The number of the rural poor in China has declined significantly, from 250 million in 1978 to 50 million in 1997 and 34 million in 1999, according to government statistics.
		The five counties where the project will be implemented are Shangcheng County (Henan Province) and Lashui County (Hebei Province) in north China, Huoshan County (Anhui Province) in south China, Yulin City (Shaanxi Province) in the northwest, and Tongnan County (Chongqing Municipality) in the southwest.
	www.undp.org /dpa/frontpagearchive/2001/february/23feb01 (393 words)

	Denton County, Texas - China Paints Inspired Women
		But one of the difficulties china painters encountered was locating kilns to fire their pieces.
		This led to the development and distribution of a portable and economical kerosene-fueled kiln specifically geared to china painters.
		China painting grew unpopular during the Depression and world War II when discretionary income and a shortage of materials and imports decreased.
	dentoncounty.com /dept/main.asp?Dept=72&Link=402 (398 words)

	South China Morning Post: County TV station broadcasts banned \| Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
		It stipulates that all county government-run stations can only broadcast their own programs through newly established channels run by the provincial governments, said senior media official Li Bin, who works for the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, which oversees broadcasting policy.
		County television stations must use China Central Television (CCTV) channels, or other channels run by provincial or municipal bodies.
		Pan Huiming, vice-president of Southern Television - a provincial-level cable TV broadcaster - said the move was a part of the government's bid to put all county television stations under provincial broadcasters.
	www.clearharmony.net /articles/200207/5575.html (372 words)

	China Dimensions
		China Administrative Regions GIS Data: 1:1M, County Level, 1 July 1990
		China Population Census Data, Household, 1% Sample, 1982 Service is no longer available
		China County-Level Data on Population (Census) and Agriculture, Keyed to 1:1M GIS Map
	sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu /china (363 words)

	ipedia.com: County of China Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A county, in the context of China, is the translation to xian, which is an administrative division.
		In the People's Republic of China, counties (县 xiàn) are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy, a level that is known as "county-level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, bannerss, autonomous banners, and districtss.
		As Qin Shi Huang Di reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1000.
	www.ipedia.com /county_of_china.html (476 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Stockport County scores in China's business league
		On Wednesday they finished a tour of one of China's most remote regions, Xinjiang, in Urumqi, a city nestled between the Taklamaken Desert and the Tianshan, or Mountains of Heaven, near the western border with Kazakhstan.
		The club's investment in China began four years ago when the buzz idea in sport was to find new markets and Asia was seen as the big growth area.
		In Urumqi, which claims to be the furthest city in the world from an ocean, the crowd was a mixture of local Uighur Muslims, ethnic Chinese immigrants and 15 diehard County fans.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/22/wsino22.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/22/ixworld.html (667 words)

	China
		A Pubei County official told that the accident was the third blast at a fireworks factory in the county since May (two incidents in May and August killed three and injured more than 10, including two children).
		In Chinas Feuerwerksfabriken bauen Kinder Lunten in Böller – manche bezahlen dafür mit ihrem Leben.", 28.12.2002, http://www.friedensforum-duisburg.de/2002/0212/feuerwerk.htm
		Chinas Staatsmedien berichteten dieses Jahr von zwölf tödlichen Unfällen in Feuerwerksfabriken.
	www.stop-fireworks.org /unfaelle_china.htm (6306 words)

	Gemelle's Gazette's Entry - 04/18/2002: "Orange County, China continued ..."
		Most people would never think anyone in China can afford these homes, but considering that there are 1.27 billion people in China, and that this is only the top 1% of the population that can afford these homes...
		So Orange County, China is only the tip of the ice berg when it comes to Western ideas merging with China.
		Although China has a rich history of private gardens, public landscaping is a new concept, says Jim Maloney of SWA Landscape Architecture, the Laguna Beach firm that planned the new community's outdoor spaces.
	www.gemele.com /blog/archives/00000034.html (1913 words)

	Tabe - Definitions: Urban, Rural, City, Town
		Hence, not all of the county population is rural.
		On closer inspection of this definitions it becomes clear that the size of urban population in China - as it appears in official statistics - basically depends on how non-agricultural population is defined.
		Unfortunately, this distinction is made by the local residence committees in towns and by village committees in townships.
	www.iiasa.ac.at /Research/LUC/ChinaFood/data/urban/urban_8.htm (380 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Places of the World (Cf-Cm)
		Charmouth is a coastal village in Dorset famed for its fossils.
		Chefoo is a port in Shantung province, China.
		Cheshire is a county in north west England.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/G6.HTM (10174 words)

	China County Data Guide
		The agricultural and geographic datasets included on the China County Data collection were compiled in the early 1990s for use as inputs to the DNDC (Denitrification-Decomposition) model at UNH.
		The datasets were compiled from multiple Chinese sources and all are at the county scale for 1990.
		County values were calculated by a bilinear interpolation to the county centroid from the 2.4° x 2.4° grid.
	eos-webster.sr.unh.edu /data_guides/china_dg.jsp (564 words)

	U-Md. Boosts County's China Connection
		Prince George's County is strengthening its ties with China, thanks in large part to the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
		"China is a very huge market, and many, many American companies have made investments in the Shandong Province," said Yan Zhaowan, deputy director of the Shandong Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
		Smith School officials say that China is the most exciting market for the next century.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/05/AR2005100501209.html?nav=rss_metro/md (531 words)

	Template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		An hour's drive from the heart of Beijing, a Chinese developer, working with a Newport Beach architect and Orange County designers, is capitalizing on what may become the world's largest housing market in an era of rapid economic reform in China.
		Aram Bassenian is among a group of Orange County architects regarded as pioneers in refining, beginning in the 1960s, what many think of today as the typical upscale suburban home.
		The developers of China's Orange County boast that their project is the first Chinese community entirely master-planned and designed by Americans, using mostly American products.
	www.uschinabuild.org /Briefs/briefsmarch92002.htm (1633 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Bird flu prevention in China
		An epidemic prevention worker disinfects a pass-by truck on the road to Jinggang village in Xiaogan of central China's Hubei Province, Nov. 18, 2005.
		China is taking every measure to fight against bird flu at present, and at the same time, the people live in bird flu-hit areas continue their nomal life with optimistic attitudes.
		An epidemic prevention worker sprays disinfection medicament to a pass-by jeep on the road to Jinggang village in Xiaogan of central China's Hubei Province, Nov. 18, 2005.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200511/19/eng20051119_222562.html (310 words)

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