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China Information:
Yellow River (Huanghe) Delta |
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The Yellow
River Delta |
The Yellow
River is the second longest river in China and its valley is
regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization. Originating
on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the river has the highest silt
content in the world because it washes away much yellow soil
as it flows through China’s Loess Plateau. Hence it’s named,
the Yellow River.
The Yellow River Delta is situated in the Binzhou Prefecture
near the City of Dongying in north-western
Shangdong
Province. It has a population of 5, 2 million and covers an
area of 18,000 square kilometers. The delta is very rich in
arable land and other natural resources. In addition to
400,000 hectares of alkaline soil yet to be developed, the
Yellow River adds 2,000 hectares of new land at its estuary
every year. Proven petroleum reserves of 23.2 billion cubic
meters lie beneath vast stretches of beaches and mud flats
used for producing salt, bittern and other industrial raw
materials.
The Yellow River Delta is flanked by the
Shangdong Peninsula
to the north and Liaodong Peninsula to the east. It sites
right at the confluence of China’s Bohai Economic Zone and
the economic belt of the Yellow River reaches, separated
from Japan and Korea to the east by the Yellow Sea. This
favourable location will enable the area to become a major
raw materials center for north-eastern Asia in the future.
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China's
Administrative Divisions |
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4 Municipalities*
23 Provinces:
5 Autonomous Regions***
2 Special Administrative
Regions (SAR)****
Notes:
* Municipalities
are directly under the administration of central
government. A municipality has the same political,
economical and jurisdictional rights as a province;
**Taiwan
Issue:
a result of China's civil
war in late 1940s'. In the earlier years of separation of
mainland China and Taiwan, both sides of China (also called
People's Republic of China "PRC" or "communist China", "red
China" , "mainland China") and Taiwan (also called Republic
of China "ROC") claim the legal sovereignty over China.
Mainland China keeps claiming Taiwan as one of its provinces
while Taiwan regards itself as an independent country.)
*** Autonomous Regions was provincial
level administrative division of China, like province, an
autonomous region has its won local government, but has more
legislative rights. Autonomous Region is a minority entity
which has higher population of a particular minority ethnic
group.
**** Special Administrative
Regions (SAR) was established specially designed for
solving Hong Kong and Macao issues and based on the concept
of "one country, two systems", SAR is in a pattern within
which two completely different social systems (socialist
system and capitalist system) and ideologies can coexist,
SAR has more autonomous power regulated clearly by laws,
including executive, legislative and independent judicial
power.
The statistics of each administrative division are collected
from official and unofficial publications, updated
constantly and for your reference only.
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Yellow
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