China is officially divided into three regions: eastern (or coastal), central and western. We find it more convenient, however, to define seven zones:

Beijing Zone, including Hebei Province and Tianjin Municipality (blue)

Northeast China, consisting of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongiang and the eastern portion of Inner Mongolia (light green).

East China, consisting Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Shanghai Municipality (dark purple).

South China, consisting of Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangxi, Guangdong, “Chinese Taipei” and Hainan (light purple).

Central China, consisting of Shanxi, Hubei, Henan and Hunan (yellow).

Northwest China, consisting of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia (western portion), Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu and Shaanxi (red).

Southwest China, consisting of Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Chongqing Municipality (dark green).

Beijing Zone:

Area and population in 1999, with share of national total

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	Area		Population
	sq km	Share %	million	Growth % pa	Share %
Beijing Municipality 北京市	16,808	0.2	12.60	0.9	1.0
Tianjin Municipality 天津市	11,300	0.2	9.59	0.9	0.8
Hebei Province 河北省	187,800	2.0	66.10	0.7	5.3

(Note that Chinese names for the cities and provinces are in MingLiU screen font.)

Hebei Province 河北省: Selected cities with population and GDP per capita in 1998

First city is the provincial capital. Click on linked text for greater detail.

	Population	GDP per capita
		RMB
Shijiazhuang 石家莊	8,643,000	9,754
Baoding 保定	10,423,000	5,699
Handan 邯鄲	8,150,000	5,730
Tangshan 唐山	6,901,000	11,317
Cangzhou 滄州	6,536,000	6,166
Qinhuangdao 秦皇島	2,629,000	9,471

Other cities in Hebei Province of interest to the Chamber: Hengshui and Langfang.

Northeast China Zone:

Area and population in 1999, with share of national total

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	Area		Population
	sq km	Share %	million	Growth % pa	Share %
Liaoning Province 遼寧省	147,500	1.5	41.7	0.3	3.3
Jilin Province 吉林省	187,400	2.0	26.6	0.5	2.1
Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省	454,000	4.7	37.9	0.5	3.0
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區	1,183,000	12.3	23.6	0.7	1.9

Liaoning Province 遼寧省: Selected cities with population and GDP per capita in 1998

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	Population	GDP per capita
		RMB
Shenyang 瀋陽	6,749,000	13,913
Dalian 大連	5,432,000	17,047
Anshan 鞍山	3,392,000	14,239
Jinzhou 錦州	3,042,000	6,147
Dandong 丹東	2,403,000	6,575
Fushun 撫順	2,272,000	8,539
Yingkou 營口	2,229,000	6,147

Jilin Province 吉林省: Selected cities with population and GDP per capita in 1998

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	Population	GDP per capita
		RMB
Changchun 長春	6,869,000	8,734
Jilin 吉林	4,276,000	7,741
Siping 四平	3,208,000	4,925
Songyuan 松原	2,689,000	5,058
Tonghua 通化	2,259,000	5,445
Baisan 白山	1,317,000	5,619

Other cities in Jilin Province of interest to the Chamber: Baicheng, Gonazuling and Meihekou.

Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省: Selected cities with population and GDP per capita in 1998

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	Population	GDP per capita
		RMB
Harbin 哈爾濱	9,218,000	8,852
Qiqihar 齊齊哈爾	5,502,000	4,780
Suihua 綏化	5,350,000	5,794
Maudanjiang 牡丹江	2,656,000	6,777
Daqing 大慶	2,451,000	24,969

Other cities in Heilongjiang Province of interest to the Chamber: Beian and Jiamusi.

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區: Selected cities with population and GDP per capita in 1998 for

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	Population	GDP per capita
		RMB
Hohhot 呼和浩特	2,044,000	6,996
Chifeng 赤峰	4,415,000	3,352
Tongliao 通遼