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  Prefecture of China
Prefecture, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China.
Prefectures (地区 pinyin: dìqū) are governed by administrative offices (行政公署 xíngzhènggōngshǔ), led by a head of office (行政首长 xíngzhèngshǒuzhǎng) appointed by the province.
All autonomous prefectures are mostly dominated, in population, by the Han Chinese.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prefecture_of_china.html   (921 words)

  
 Prefecture of China - Definition, explanation
Prefecture, in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China.
Prefectures (地区 pinyin: dìqū) are governed by administrative offices (行政公署 xíngzhènggōngshǔ), led by a head of office (行政首长 xíngzhèngshǒuzhǎng) appointed by the province.
All autonomous prefectures are mostly dominated, in population, by the Han Chinese.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pr/prefecture_of_china.php   (794 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The prefectures and municipalities function as more than just the country's administrative units: they are incorporated bodies—independent from the national government—that possess their own basic spheres of responsibility and local residents as their constituents, holding administrative authority within their respective geographical boundaries.
In Hokkaidō and several other prefectures, subprefectures are used as special administrative units, due to peculiarities of governmental evolution and the difficulty in centrally governing certain geographically large or remote areas.
Traditionally the prefecture as being the City Hall and the prefect as being the equivalent of a mayor and commissioner until recently; now the prefectures and prefect are analogous with the figure of Town Clerk
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Prefecture   (776 words)

  
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Shanghai is China's most comprehensive industrial and commercial city, ranking the first in population and population density.
It is alos the sixth largest provinces in China and the home of a third of all China's ethnic minorities, and it harbours half of all China's plant and animal species.
It is situated in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers in southwest China.
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  China
China's defense-related science, technology and industry is the state's strategic industry, and the important industrial and technological foundation for national defense modernization, as well as a major driving force for the development of the national economy, science and technology.
China advocates settling unresolved border and maritime demarcation issues through negotiation, and demarcating maritime boundaries with neighboring countries or countries contiguous to opposite coasts based on the principle of equity, and opposes the use of force or provocative acts.
China supports the enhancement of the effectiveness of the BWC in a comprehensive manner, and has actively participated in the work of the ad hoc group of the states parties to the Convention set up for the negotiation of a BWC protocol.
www.nti.org /db/china/engdocs/whpandef_2002.htm   (14512 words)

  
 Remote Tibetan Area Benefits from Solar Energy
Every household in the remote Ari Prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region now has the benefits of electricity, with the completion of a state-run solar power project in the prefecture.
Over the past years, all seven counties in the prefecture got electricity mainly from hydro-electric or machine generators, while most rural residents had no electricity because they lived on the vast and sparsely populated grasslands.
With the completion of the project, the prefecture has become the first in the region to have universal electricity coverage.
www.chinadaily.net /chinagate/doc/2003-06/04/content_248512.htm   (236 words)

  
 Tibet:Administrative Divisions - Wikichinatravel
The Shannan Prefecture of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region is located at the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River south of the Kangdese Mountains - the Nyainqentanglha Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
Nyingchi is adjacent to Yunnan Province (South China) and the Chamdo area to the east and northeast, Nagqu to the north, Lhasa to the west, and Shannan to the southwest.
The Ngari Prefecture is located in the western part of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, at the center of the Changtang Plateau on the northern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
www.wikichinatravel.com /en/Tibet:Administrative_Divisions   (2148 words)

  
  Constitution of the People's Republic of China - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
China consistently carries out an independent foreign policy and adheres to the five principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence in developing diplomatic relations and economic and cultural exchanges with other countries.
China consistently opposes imperialism, hegemonism and colonialism, works to strengthen unity with people of other countries, supports the oppressed nations and the developing countries in their just struggle to win and preserve national independence and develop national economies, and strives to safeguard world peace and promote the cause of human progress.
The chairman of an autonomous region, the prefect of an autonomous prefecture or the head of an autonomous county shall be a citizen of the nationality exercising regional autonomy in the area concerned.
www.usconstitution.net /china.html   (9924 words)

  
 China’s Rivers at Risk
China’s construction of a 15-dam cascade and navigation channel along the upper reaches of the Lancang/Mekong threatens this fragile river basin.
China’s Water Crisis (Zhongguo shui weiji), written by journalist and environmental consultant Ma Jun, is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis and reference on the enormous water resource crisis confronting the People’s Republic of China.
Ganzi Prefecture announced in early November it was scrapping a controversial dam project on the sacred Tibetan Megoe Tso Lake in western Sichuan Province of China.
www.irn.org /programs/china   (944 words)

  
 China's 1st Autonomous Prefecture Marks 50th Anniversary
A festive ceremony including dancing was held in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in southwestern China's Sichuan Province, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the prefecture's founding.
The local government of Ganzi, the first ethnic minority autonomous prefecture in China, was congratulated by central and provincial governments for the event.
The autonomous prefecture was set up in 1950, the year it was peacefully liberated from slave owners.
www.china.org.cn /english/2000/Aug/1122.htm   (174 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for China
Danba (=Rongzhag), Daofu (Dawu), Luhuo, Xinlong (Nyagrong) counties of the Ganzi (Garzê) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of western Sichuan, and Jinchua (Quqên) County of the Aba (Ngawa) Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of northwestern Sichuan.
Bayan Gool Autonomous Prefecture and Bortala Autonomous Prefecture.
Mianning, Muli, Xichang, and Yanyuan counties of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and Jiulong (Gyaisi) County in the Ganzi (Garzê) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southwestern Sichuan.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=China   (8374 words)

  
 MinVision - Scheelite - Mt. Xuebaoding, Hujia, Pingwu County, Aba Prefecture, Sichua, China   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Many are associated with tabular beryl and lustrous fl cassiterite, all of which are most commonly and aesthetically nestled on beds of densely packed pale-gray muscovite.
Xuebaoding, Hujia, Pingwu County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
Mt Xuebaoding (Mt Xuebaodiang), Huya, Pingwu District, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China
www.minvision.com /article-65.html   (175 words)

  
 CNN.com - Chinese farmers to till Kazak land - Dec. 17, 2003
China has signed a deal to rent 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of arable land in the Kazak county of Alakol for 10 years, starting in the (northern) spring, the official China Daily said on Thursday.
China, the world's most populous nation with 1.3 billion people, has sought to allay world fears that it will not be able to feed itself and will need to import food, draining world supplies.
China, facing soaring energy demand as its economy booms, is thirsty for oil from Kazakhstan, one of the world's fastest growing oil regions.
cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/12/17/china.kazakhstan.reut   (393 words)

  
 Political Divisions of China : Province and Cities - China History Forum, chinese history forum
China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics.
In mainland China, provinces are theoretically subservient to the PRC central government, but in practice provincial officials have a large amount of discretion with regard to economic policy.
Prefectures were inserted between provinces and counties; they continue be ubiquitously applied to nearly all areas of China.
www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=7941   (3199 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Brazil, the prefecture (prefeitura in Portuguese) is the City Hall, home to the Executive of a city and to the mayor's office.
The prefectures and municipalities function as more than just the country's administrative units: they are incorporated bodies—independent from the national government—that possess their own basic spheres or responsibility and local residents as their constituents, holding administrative authority within their respective geographical boundaries.
Traditionally the prefecture as being the City Hall and the prefect as being the equivalent of a mayor and commissioner until recently; now the prefectures and prefect are analogous with the figure of Town Clerk
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Prefecture   (699 words)

  
 China - China Information - China
On the other hand, the Republic of China, while never formally rescinding its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and increasingly characterizes itself as "Taiwan", which is the usage commonly adopted in the West.
China is the world's oldest continuous civilization and culture, with a history characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent Chinese dynastydynastic change.
China is also traditionally thought of as comprising North China (北方) and South China (南方), the geographic boundary between which north and south is largely generalized as Huai River (淮河) and Qinling Mountains (秦岭).
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/China   (3733 words)

  
 Conference addresses biodiversity, ecotourism
Co-organized by the government of the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Conservation International (CI) China Programme and Green Globe 21, the theme of the conference is participation.
During the three-day conference which ends today, the participants were divided into two groups to discuss topics such as co-operation in ecotourism between different regions, market demand for environmental tourism, ecotourism assessments and planning, guidelines and standards for ecotourism, and local community participation.
And it overlaps almost 80 per cent of the mountains of Southwest China, an area designated by the international conservation organization based in the United States as one of the world's top 25 biodiversity hotspots.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-11/15/content_391345.htm   (262 words)

  
 China Media Timeline: Danwei World Tour Stop 2
China's TV industry begins to reform with the introduction of the 'Four Level Administrative Guidelines' in order to develop radio and TV broadcasting at four levels (central, provincial, prefecture and county).
China's first 'city newspaper', reporting local matters and relatively free of central government interference, is published: Sichuan Daily publishers launch Huaxi Dushi Bao, (Western China City News), distributed in Chengdu, the most developed city in Sichuan Province.
The editor of Bing Dian (Freezing Point) supplement to the China Youth Daily, is removed from his position after authorities object to the tone and content of the supplement, in particular to one article calling for the revision of Chinese high school history text books.
www.danwei.org /internet/china_media_timeline_danwei_wo.php   (3034 words)

  
 Lishui Zhejiang China
Among the 3100 species of plants and 505 species of vertebrate that are known to live in the prefecture, 64 are on the nation's preservation list, such as Baishanzu fir, Chinese tulip tree and Huanan tiger.
The prefecture is now a commercial base for editable fungus, dried and fresh fruit, bamboo and bamboo shoots, tea, commercial forest, oil tea, sericulture, herb medicine, vegetable and nuts.
Being the largest mountainous ecological tourism zone in east China, Lishui prefecture is a natural habitat for a great number of rare plants and wild animals.
www.chinapages.com /zhejiang/lishui/jg   (1317 words)

  
 News & Views - 4th Largest Desert to See China's First Settlement Oasis (4/23/2002)
China will invest over 200 million yuan (24 million U.S. dollars) in the next 10 years in building China's first large-scale oasis for settlers in the southern rim of Alxa, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
He said the oasis is expected to reduce by 10 percent of the frequency of dust storms in the autonomous region's neighboring areas and return part of Alxa desert back to life.
China has one of the world's worst desertification problems and the total area of deserts in China is over 2.6 million square kilometers.
www.chinahouston.org /news/2002423140345.html   (862 words)

  
 China today
AT the end of last year, the name of Zhongdian County, capital of Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern China's Yunnan Province, was changed to Shangri-La County.
The former is the largest of 24 lamaseries in Deqen Prefecture and acts as center for the Yellow Sect in the Sichuan and Yunnan areas.
The Deqen Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture was established in 1957.
www.chinatoday.com.cn /English/e20027/shangrila.htm   (1274 words)

  
 BootsnAll.com - Kashi Prefecture, China
Kashi Prefecture, 141,600 square kilometers in total area in the southern part of Xinjiang, is contiguous with the Taklimakan Desert on its east and borders Russia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kirghizia, Pakistan to its west and southwest respectively.
The city Kashi is the seat of the Kashi Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China and the administrative office of the prefecture.
Kashi Prefecture has 415,620 hectares of cultivated land, 1.33 million hectares of reclaimable land and 2.26 million hectares of pastureland, of which 239,467 hectares is first rate.
www.bootsnall.com /asiatravelguides/urumqi/kashi.shtml   (2275 words)

  
 China and Inner Asia Sessions   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As China’s reformers are becoming all too aware, a functioning market economy not only requires major institutions such as banks and stock exchanges, but also depends on a host of supporting infrastructure.
But this fact, that physicians in China diagnosed and treated patients without attention to the nervous system, is remarkable only to observers from cultures in which the anatomical idea of nerves is so deeply woven into cultural identity that it is hard to imagine practicing medicine without the language of nerves.
A daughter’s decision to remain celibate or to follow her fiancé in death by committing suicide typically was made against the wishes of her parents, and it caused tremendous conflict, resulting in profound distress and trauma for both the daughter and her parents.
www.aasianst.org /absts/2004abst/China/sessions.htm   (16736 words)

  
 Hunan - China Tour - Travel to China
The population continued to climb until, by the 19th century, Hunan was overcrowded and prone to peasant uprisings.
Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西土家族苗族自治州 Xiāngxī Tǔjiāz?
The 14 prefecture of Chinaprefecture-level divisions of Hunan are subdivided into 122 county of Chinacounty-level divisions (34 District of Chinadistricts, 16 county-level cities, 65 County of Chinacounties, 7 autonomous counties).
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Hunan   (1194 words)

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