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Government
 

Form of government

One-party rule by the Chinese Communist Party

Head of State

H.E. President Hu Jintao

Vice-President

H.E. Zeng Qinghong

Head of government

H.E. Premier (of the State Council) Wen Jiabao

Vice-Premiers

Huang Ju
Wu Yi
Zeng Peiyan
Hui Liangyu

 

Ministers
Secretary General	Hua Jianmin
Minister of Agriculture	Du Qinglin
Minister of Civil Affairs	Li Xueju
Minister of Commerce	Bo Xilari
Minister in charge of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense	Zhang Yunchuan
Minister of Communications	Zhang Chunxian
Minister of Construction	Wang Guangtao
Minister of Culture	Sun Jiazheng
Minister of Education	Zhou Ji
Minister of Finance	Jin Renqing
Minister of Foreign Affairs	Li Zhaoxing
Minister of Health	Wu Yi
Minister of Information Industry	Wang Xudong
Minister of Justice	Zhang Fusen
Minister of Labour and Social Security	Zheng Silin
Minister of Land and Resources	Sun Wensheng
Minister of National Defence	Cao Gangchuan
Minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission	Ma Kai
Minister of Personnel	Zhang Bolin
Minister of Public Security	Zhou Yongkang
Minister of Railways	Liu Zhijun
Minister of Science and Technology	Xu Guanhua
Minister in charge of the State Commission for Population and Family Planning	Zhang Weiqing
Minister in charge of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission	Li Dek Su
Minister of State Security	Xu Yongyue
Minister of Supervision	Li Zhilun
Minister of Water Resources	Wang Shucheng
Other Government Officials
Governor of the People's Bank of China	Zhou Xiaochuan
Auditor General of the National Audit Office	Li Jinhua

Administrative divisions

23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 centrally-administered municipalities and
2 Special Administrative Regions
 

Administrative Divisions ( see locator map )
Name	Area ('000 sq km)	Capital	Population (2003) (million)
Municipalities
Beijing Municipality	1.68		1.456
Shanghai Municipality	0.62		1.711
Chongqing Municipality	8.20		3.130
Tianjin Municipality	1.13		1.011
North East China
Heilongjiang Province	46.90	Harbin	3.815
Jilin Province	18.70	Changchun	2.704
Liaoning Province	14.57	Shenyang	4.210
North China
Hebei Province	19.00	Shijiazhuang	6.769
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region	118.30	Hohhot	2.380
Shanxi Province	15.60	Taiyuan	3.314
North West China
Gansu Province	45.00	Lanzhou	2.603
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region	6.64	Yinchuan	0.580
Qinghai Province	72.00	Xining	0.534
Shaanxi Province	20.50	Xi'an	3.690
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region	160.00	Urumqi	1.934
East China
Anhui Province	13.90	Hefei	6.410
Fujian Province	12.00	Fuzhou	3.488
Jiangsu Province	10.26	Nanjing	7.406
Jiangxi Province	16.66	Nanchang	4.254
Shandong Province	15.30	Jinan	9.125
Zhejiang Province	10.18	Hangzhou	4.680
Central China
Henan Province	16.70	Zhengzhou	9.667
Hubei Province	18.74	Wuhan	6.002
Hunan Province	21.00	Changsha	6.663
South China
Guangdong Province	18.60	Guangzhou	7.954
Hainan Province	3.40	Haikou	0.811
Taiwan Province	3.60		2.261
South West China
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region	23.63	Nanning	4.857
Guizhou Province	17.00	Guiyang	3.870
Sichuan Province	48.80	Chengdu	8.700
Tibet Autonomous Region	122.00	Lhasa	0.270
Yunnan Province	39.40	Kunming	4.376
Special Administrative Regions
Hong Kong SAR	0.1092		0.680
Macao SAR	0.0024		0.045