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	Nanjing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The city is under the one-party ruling of CPC, with the as the de facto governor of the city and the as the executive head of the government working under the secretary.
		In 2003 the sex ratio of the city population is 106.49 males to 100 females.
		The city is also vying for foreign investment against neighboring cities in Yangtze River Delta, and so far a number of famous multinational firms, such as Fiat, Iveco, and Sharp, have established their lines there.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Nanjing (2863 words)

	Sub-provincial city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A sub-provincial city (副省级城市), or vice-provincial city, in the People's Republic of China, is a prefecture-level city that is ruled by a province, but is administered independently in regard to economy and law.
		The mayor of a sub-provincial city is equal in status to a vice-governor of a province.
		Chongqing was formerly a sub-provincial city of Sichuan until 1997, when it was made a municipality by splitting it out of Sichuan altogether.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Subprovincial_city (242 words)

	Xi'an - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the most important cities in Chinese history, Xi'an was one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China because it has been the capital of 13 dynasties such as Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang.
		The city is nested between a flood plain created by 8 surrounding rivers and streams, most of which have been too polluted to be used as sources of fresh water.
		The city is surrounded by a well-preserved defensive wall which was re-constructed in Ming Dynasty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xi'an (1164 words)

	Encyclopedia: Guangzhou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Subprovincial cities Due to Chinas large population and area, the political divisions of China have always consisted of several levels since ancient times.
		Jiangmen (江門) is a prefecture-level city in the Guangdong province of southern China.
		Zhaoqing (è‚‡åº†) is a prefecture-level city of Guangdong province in southern China.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guangzhou (4339 words)

	Xi'an - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The city is nested between a flood plain created by 8 surrounding riversand streams, most of which have been too polluted to be used as sources of fresh water.
		The city is surrounded by a well-preserved defensive wall which wasre-constructed in Ming Dynasty.
		The Banpo Neolithic village is locatedoutside the city.
	www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Xian (896 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Chengdu
		Zizhu city (紫竹城 : Zǐzhú Chéng) was one of the early settlements.
		After the conquer of Shu by Qin Dynasty in 316 BC, a new city was founded by the Qin general Zhang Yi, which marked the beginning of contemporary Chengdu.
		Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the defence of the city at Chengdu Central Military Academy, until December 10, 1949 when the People's Liberation Army took the city and the Nationalist Chinese government fled to Taiwan.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Chengdu (542 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Guangzhou
		It is believed that the first city was built in 214 BC, named Panyu (番禹; the locals pronounced this in Cantonese as Poon Yu) and have had a continuous occupation since that time.
		In 206 BC, it became the capital of Kingdom Nanyue (南越), and the city was expanded.
		Guangzhou was sacked by Arabs ¹ and Persians in AD 758, ² based on a local Guangzhou government report on October 30 758, which corresponded to the day of Guisi (癸巳) of the ninth lunar month in the first year of the Qianyuan era of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Guangzhou (642 words)

	Encyclopedia: Xi'an (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In politics a capital (also called capital city or political capital â€”; although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government.
		Xi'an is the sister city with Kyoto (Japan), Pau (France) and Dortmund (Germany) This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the different concept of physically neighbouring cities.
		Ankang (Chinese: å®‰åº·; pinyin:) is a medium-sized city in Shaanxi province, China.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Xi%27an (4558 words)

	Nanjing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The city is under the one-party ruling of CPC, with the CPC Nanjing Committee Secretary as the de facto governor of the city and the Mayor as the executive head of the government working under the secretary.
		The city is also vying for foreign investment against neighboring cities in Yangtze River Delta, and so far a number of famous multinational firms, such as Fiat, Iveco, A.O. Smith and Sharp, have established their lines there.
		In recent years, several commercial streets have been developed by the city and the night life has become more diverse: there are mega-shopping malls opening late in the Xinjiekou CBD and Hunan Road, and the newly-opened "Nanjing 1912" district hosts a wide variety of pastime facilities ranging from traditional restaurants to western pubs.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Nanking.htm (3164 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Talk:Chongqing
		12 for "Chongqing city" and 13 for "Chongqing Municipality".
		Chongqing City is right now just confusing, I'll revamp it later (add the specific districts and counties that it once governed -- most of which still exist, under the municipality, and the area and population stats of what it once was before the municipal merging).
		And as for Chongqing City, I'm not that strong either way, but leaning toward separatism, just for the sake of historical value, like Commonwealth of the Philippines exists not because the preceeding culture and history differ from those of the Philippines, but the very name and administration differ.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Talk:Chongqing (1270 words)

	Welcome to Dapitan City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The City of Dapitan is located at the Northern tip of Zamboanga del Norte and northwestern coast of the island of Mindanao with geographical coordinates of 8 50' North latitude and 123 30' East longitude.
		Traditionally, this festival is a re-enactment of the Battle of Covadonga, where the Spanish forces under Pelagio took their last stand against the Saracens and were only able to reverse the tide of war with the miraculous apparition of St. James, the Greater.
		On the 24th and 25th of July is the City Fiesta highlighted by the "Sinug" and "Kinabayo" a colorful pageantry in honor of St. James the Greater.
	elgu.ncc.gov.ph /ecommunity/dapitancity/profile/profile.htm (2365 words)

	physics - Harbin
		Harbin (; Russian Харби́н Kharbin) is a sub-provincial city in north-east China and the capital of the Heilongjiang Province.
		Harbin bears the nickname 'The Pearl on the swan's neck' because the shape of Heilongjiang resembles a swan.
		The modern city of Harbin originated in 1898 with the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway by Russia.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Harbin,_China (852 words)

	Sub-provincial city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A sub-provincial city (副省级城市) or vice-provincial city in the People's Republic of China is a city hierarchically lower than a province but administered independently in regard to economy and law.
		The original 16 sub-provincial cities were in on February 25 1994 by the Organization Committee out of prefecture-level cities.
		Chongqing is formerly a sub-provincial city of until 1997 when it was made a
	www.freeglossary.com /Sub-provincial_city (345 words)

	Read about Chengdu at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Chengdu and learn about Chengdu here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The city is a political and economic center of southwest China.
		Zizhu city (紫竹城 : Zǐzhú Chéng) was one of the early settlements.
		After the conquest of Shu by Qin Dynasty in 316 BC, a new city was founded by the Qin general
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Chengdu (567 words)

	CHANGCHUN FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Severely damaged in World_War_2, it was caputed by Soviet troops in 1945, who looted the city of everything they could strip.
		Kuomintang forces occupied the city in 1946, but were unable to hold the countryside against Chinese_Communist forces.
		The city fell to the Red Army in 1948.
	www.factagent.com /?req=changchun (239 words)

	Xiamen - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Xiamen (Simplified Chinese:厦门; Traditional Chinese:廈門; pinyin: Xiàmén; Wade-Giles: Hsiamen) is a coastal sub-provincial city in Fujian Province,southern China.
		Koxinga stationed here in1650, naming it Siming Island (思明洲), or "Remembering the Ming", but the city was renamed by the Manchus in 1680 to Xiamen Subprefecture.
		In 1949, Xiamen became a provincial city (省轄市), then upgraded to avice-province-class city (副省級市), or a municipality.
	www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Amoy (427 words)

	DEMOGRAPHY
		The differences between city and country reflect both greater fertility in rural areas and increasing cohabitation of generations, which is easier and more traditional than in the urban zones.
		This very rapid development of the cities reflects the departure of about 50 percent of the natural demographic surplus of the villages, the population of which has grown 71 percent in four decades (Table 17).
		The concentration of migrants in cities was accelerated by the war between Persia and Iraq and particularly affected the large provincial cities, which evolved from regional centers into urban metropolises (Zanja@n^ and Raháma@n^).
	www.iranica.com /articles/v7/v7f3/v7f328.html (7077 words)

	math lessons - Ningbo
		Ningbo (; literally "Tranquil Waves") is a seaport sub-provincial city in the Zhejiang province of China.
		Ningbo was visited by Portugese traders as early as 1522, and was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China.
		During the war, British forces took possession of the walled city of Ningbo briefly after storming the fortified town of Zhenhai at the mouth of the Yong River on October 10, 1841.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Ningbo (230 words)

	Shenzhen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Though the secondary sector of industry had the largest share (1.85 million in 2001, increased by 5.5%), the tertiary sector of industry is growing fast (1.44 million in 2001, increased by 11.6%).
		Shenzhen Airport is 35km from central Shenzhen and connects the city with many other parts of China, as well as some international destinations.
		The airport is connected to the city by an airport bus route 330 which terminates at Hualian Dasha in Shennan Zhong Lu.
	toshare.dynup.net /en/Shenzhen.htm (1528 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies (1998)
		Below the cities and districts were 2,000 largely rural county governments, which owned another 68,000 public enterprises (an average of only 33 per jurisdiction), producing 13 percent of national output.
		It is evident that the scale of the economy, the size of its revenue base, and the degree of industrialization drop dramatically as one moves from the top of this hierarchy of redistributive systems down to the smaller cities, counties, and townships.
		The fiscal incentives for the smaller cities, counties, and especially townships and villages, where there is still a significant agricultural population, are much stronger than this model assumes.
	books.nap.edu /books/0309059291/html/432.html (9076 words)

	Chapter I - Census Geography
		Urban structure and economic links between cities are such that, in many cases, the data dealing with a particular city (a census subdivision) do not take into account that city's true area of influence.
		An agricultural region is a subprovincial geographic region used by the census of agriculture in the dissemination of agricultural statistics.
		A subprovincial region refers to the geographical unit smaller than a province (with the exception of P.E.I. and the territories) made up of groupings of census divisions.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~libdata/adc/geo.html (2591 words)

	physics - Dalian
		In 1937, the modern Dalian City was enlarged and modernized by the Japanese as two cities: the northern Dairen (Dalian) and the southern Ryojun (Lushun).
		The city's name was changed from Lüda to Dalian on March 5, 1981, after the State Council approved it on February 9.
		It was upgraded from a prefecture-level city to a sub-provincial city in 1994, with no change in its administrative subdivisions.
	www.physicsdaily.com /physics/Luda (801 words)

	About Anshan - History
		Xiuyan County was administered by Andong City(renamed Dandong City in 1965), Liaoyang County was resumed on April 29,1961 and was still administered by Anshan City.
		Liaonan Subprovincial Administrative Region was revoked on December 26,1968 and Haicheng County was merged into YingKou City.
		January 1,1976, Taian county's jurisdiction was shifted from Panjin Reclamation Area to Anshan City.
	www.jodani.org /china/about_history.htm (865 words)

	HARBIN FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The modern city of Harbin originated in 1898 from a small village, with the start of the construction of the Chinese_Eastern_Railway (KWZhD) by Russia, an extention of the Trans-siberian railroad, shortcutting substantially the distance to Vladivostok and creating a link to the port city of Dairen (Dalnii) and the Russian Naval Base Port Arthur.
		In December 1918, during the Russian_Civil_War, defeated Russian White Guards and refugees retreated to the city: it then became a major centre of White Russian Ã©migrÃ©s.
		Harbin never came under the control of the Kuomintang, whose troops stopped 60 km short the city and its administration was transferred by the departing Soviet Army to the Chinese People's_Liberation_Army in April 1946.
	www.marlinmall.com /fr:Harbin (1054 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		It serves as the municipal seat and administrative center for the surrounding Municipalities of Guanajuato municipality of '''Romita de Liceaga'''.
		The name that he received for ordinance of the local Congress was ''Romita de Liceaga'', in honor of Don José María Liceaga, a hero of the Mexican War of Independence War of Independence who was born there.
		The whole Municipality of Romita belongs to the Neovolcánico Axis, the one that in turn embraces the subprovincial country denominated El Bajio Guanajuatense, being divided this last one in four types of regions: Sierra Spread Hillsides, Isolated Lomeríos, Plain of Deep Alluviums and Lomeríos Associated to Plateaus.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Romita.html (1070 words)

	Issues: Perspectives (October 1997): Teaching the History of Race in Latin America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Spanish cities had won a great deal of autonomy from the national state, and fueros (legal and political privileges held by local elites) limited the outreach of state power.
		Precolonial provincial and subprovincial political units served as the basis for the encomienda, town, and parish districts, allowing Indian mayors and town councils to function under Spanish direction.
		In the large cities the innandades (lay brotherhoods; cotradias in Spanish America) sponsored by the Catholic Church granted slaves, free fls, and mulattos a degree of autonomy by permitting them to assemble on holidays, gather funds for the less fortunate, and elect a leadership to observe the rituals of their particular saint.
	www.theaha.org /perspectives/issues/1997/9710/9710TEC.CFM (2425 words)

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