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About Shandong
Shāndōng Shěng
Abbreviation(s): 鲁 (pinyin: Lǔ)
Origin of name 山 shān - mountain
东 dōng - east
"east of the Taihang Mountains"
Administration type Province
Capital and
Largest City
Jinan
CPC Shandong Committee Secretary Jiang Yikang 姜异康
Governor Guo Shuqing 郭树清
Area 156,700 km2 (20th)
Population (2004)
 - Density
91,800,000 (2nd)
586/km2 (5th)
GDP (2004)
 - per capita
CNY 1.55 trillion (2nd)
CNY 16,900 (8th)
HDI (2005) 0.776 (11th) — medium
Major nationalities (2000) Han - 99.3%
Hui - 0.6%
Prefecture-level divisions 17
County-level divisions 140
Township-level divisions
(December 31, 2004)
1941
ISO 3166-2 CN-37
Official website:
http://www.sd.gov.cn/
(Simplified Chinese)

Source for population and GDP data:
《中国统计年鉴—2005》/ China Statistical Yearbook 2005 ISBN 7503747382

Source for nationalities data:
《2000年人口普查中国民族人口资料》/ Tabulation on nationalities of 2000 population census of China ISBN 7105054255

Shandong General Introduction

Shandong Provincial People''s Government is made up of 42 agencies - the General Office and 25 other component departments, an ad hoc agency directly under the Government, and 16 agencies directly under the Government. The Provincial Discipline Inspection Commission has its office work combined together with the Provincial Department of Supervision and is listed among the agencies of the .....[More>>]

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