Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Chinese provinces workgroup

The goal of WikiProject Chinese provinces aims primarily to standardize entries of the province-level divisions of the PRC. It is likely not going to cover Macau and Hong Kong as those are covered by WikiProject Countries.


 * Status Page

Subproject: WikiProject China/Chinese cities workgroup

Participants

 * 1) (mainly Hunan Province)
 * 2) (Autonomous regions)
 * 3) (Northeastern provinces, some Anhui, Shandong, Yunnan)
 * 4) (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan)
 * 1) (mainly Hunan Province)
 * 2) (Autonomous regions)
 * 3) (Northeastern provinces, some Anhui, Shandong, Yunnan)
 * 4) (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan)
 * 1) (Autonomous regions)
 * 2) (Northeastern provinces, some Anhui, Shandong, Yunnan)
 * 3) (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan)
 * 1) (Autonomous regions)
 * 2) (Northeastern provinces, some Anhui, Shandong, Yunnan)
 * 3) (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan)
 * 1) (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan)
 * 1) (Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan)

Structure
See template section for now

Locator maps: WikiProject Chinese provinces/Locator maps

Templates
When tagging, place on article talk page:

(Note that in this example the notice has been classified as "NA", so that it will not appear on the list of unassessed articles. This will not happen normally if the above code is used.)

For the infobox, don't forget to replace the "_" with the name of the article being converted. For the table, replace the X's with the proper information.

Note: These guidelines are flexible and are not meant to be perfectly followed or strictly enforced. Use whatever works best for each article. --

Definition paragraph.
 * Put simplified characters, traditional characters, pinyin, Wade-Giles, postal pinyin. Please bold postal pinyin.
 * Neighbouring provinces and countries.
 * Etymology of name
 * Abbreviation, and etymology
 * Nicknames (if any), and etymology

The table is at the top of the page in all articles about provinces.

History
Include:
 * Worldly events since ancient times
 * When the province was formed; major changes in boundary/structure etc.
 * Recent events
 * Recent list of governors
 * Recent list of Party secretaries

Geography
Include:
 * Topography (e.g. high in the west, low in the east...)
 * Mountains, peaks, highest peak
 * Rivers and bodies of water; coastline and islands (if any)
 * Climate
 * Include map if available
 * natural resources (coal and natural gas reserves)

Administrative divisions
List the prefecture-level divisions of this province. Give number and type of county-level and township-level divisions. List the county-level divisions in a separate article (see below).

List of county-level divisions
This should be a separate article because the size of this table is huge (except for the municipalities and Hainan).

There are two conflicting styles currently in use: examples are List of administrative divisions of Hebei and List of administrative divisions of Hunan. (See for another design.) Unless the two styles are reconciled it is hard for any more tables to be made. You are welcome to make comments or suggestions in the talk page.

For conventions on how to name the counties, see Naming conventions (Chinese).

Economy
Include:
 * Overview by sectors. Statistics bureau of each province should provide detailed statistics
 * Major industries - agriculture first, then mining, then manufacturing
 * Major outputs
 * Standard of living compare to other part of country
 * Major ports, SEZ's, etc.
 * Stock Exchange (for Shanghai and Guangdong)
 * Historical and projected GDP growth rates by province
 * per capita GDP by province
 * % of largest companies that are SOE's versus private by province
 * FDI and FAI statistics by province
 * % imports/exports by province
 * foreign trade by province
 * metropolitan zones/deltas (i.e. Yangtze, Pearl River)
 * banking sector and financial markets (largest banks, total assets, transaction types, investor base, etc.)
 * CNY trade settlement statistics

Demographics
Include:
 * Urban population and rural population; permanent population and floating population; and standards of living within each group. Statistics bureau of each province should provide detailed statistics
 * List major ethnic groups, population and percentage of each
 * GINI coefficient
 * health statistics
 * education statistics
 * density by province

Culture
Include:
 * Languages dialects or languages
 * Cuisine. Major features of the cuisine; a few typical dishes
 * Local produce, arts and crafts, etc.
 * Operas and musical forms

Famous people
Use a bulleted list. It would be good to give birth / death year, and a brief one-line description for each. See Jiangsu.

Stereotypes
Stereotypes form an important part (perhaps the only part) of the impressions Chinese people have about provinces. But these are also dangerously POV. So please phrase these NPOVly. Besides, it is important to use correct and clear adverbial modifiers in the description, so as to keep incorrect or outdated stereotypes from spreading further. For example, the sentence In the first several years of the 21st century there was a widespread stereotype in China that people from Henan were liars and cheats... is much more accurate than In recent years it has become popular in China to stereotype people from Henan as liars and cheats...

Transportation
Include:


 * Railroads
 * Highways (guodao 国道)
 * Expressways (gaosugonglu 高速公路)
 * Major seaports
 * Major airports
 * Any subway / lightrail systems?
 * auto sales and expressway growth

Tourism
Include:
 * City sites
 * Historical sites
 * Natural sites
 * World Heritage sites
 * airlines (both international and regional) and passenger related statistics
 * airports (both international and regional) and flight related statistics
 * hotel density (current and projected growth) by province
 * hotel construction statistics
 * tourism statistics (visitation by province: foreign versus local and regional)
 * % business versus leisure travel by province
 * convention statistics by province (if available)

Miscellaneous topics
Include:
 * Sports teams
 * List major Colleges and Universities