Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Chinese cities workgroup

The WikiProject China/Chinese cities workgroup aims primarily to standardize prefecture-level city and county-level city entries of the People's Republic of China. The 4 municipalities of the PRC (Beijing, Chongqing, Shanghai, Tianjin) are covered by the WikiProject China/Chinese provinces workgroup, but due to their nature as cities, they will also follow some of the guidelines given here. This WikiProject is likely not going to cover Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong at this stage.

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Template

When tagging, place {{WikiProject China|cities=yes|class=|importance=}} on the article's talk page:

(Note that in this example the notice has been classified as "Project", as it is assessed by namespace. This will not happen normally if the above code is used.)

Infobox

All settlements in China should use the standard infobox of {{Infobox settlement}}. This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in China and in the other articles of the wikipedia like Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, and Saigon. The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc. {{Infobox settlement}} also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in China. It also as a location map feature that will automatically place a dot on a map of China if the coordinates are known (see Kunshan). Other examples include Beijing (see below) and Shanghai

北京市 北京
Municipality
The Temple of Heaven, an enduring symbol of Beijing
Location in China
Coordinates: 39°54′20″N 116°23′29″E
Country	People's Republic of China
County-level divisions	18
Township divisions	273
Settled	ca. 473 BC
Government
• CPC Beijing	Liu Qi Committee Secretary
• Mayor	Wang Qishan
Area (ranked 29th)
• Municipality	16,808 km2 (6,490 sq mi)
Elevation	43.5 m (142.7 ft)
Population  (2004)
• Municipality	14,930,000 (26th)
• Density	888/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
• Urban	approx. 7.5 million
• Mun. Density rank	(4th)
• Major nationalities	Han - 96% Manchu - 2% Hui - 2% Mongolian - 0.3%
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	100000 - 102600
Area code	+86/10
License plate prefixes	京A, C, E, F, H, J 京B (taxis) 京G (outside urban area) 京O (police and authorities) 京V (military headquarters & central government)
ISO 3166-2	cn-11
GDP (2004)	CNY 428.3 billion (15th)
- per capita	CNY 28,700 (2nd)
HDI (2005)	0.882 (2nd) — high
Website	www.beijing.gov.cn www.ebeijing.gov.cn (English)
City trees Chinese arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis) Pagoda tree (Sophora japonica) City flowers Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium) Chinese rose (Rosa chinensis)

History

Include:

• How and when the city was founded
• Worldly events since ancient times
• Recent events
• Recent list of Mayors
• Recent list of Party secretaries

Geography

Note that city governments will often publish all of the information below, albeit in Chinese.

Some information to include:

• Basic position within province or prefecture
• Coordinate ranges
• Notable features
  • Rivers
  • Mountains/Hills
  • Plains

Climate

Some information to include:

• Basic climate classification. The Köppen system works well, though do not be excessively technical.
• Monthly mean temperatures for January and July/August. Annual temperature if possible
• Precipitation patterns, annual precipitation total if possible
• Other notable features of the climate
• Data in a table (e.g. Template:Weather box) or graph, if a source with enough precision is provided. Sources include the China Meteorological Administration, and the National Meteorological Centre, though you do need to be awfully good at reading graphs for the NMC source.

Administrative divisions

List the districts and/or county-level divisions of this city. Give number of township-level divisions.

List of Township-level divisions

This should be a separate article because the size of this table is huge. See examples of format at List of administrative divisions of Jilin, List of administrative divisions of Hebei. For conventions on how to name the townships, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese).

Economy

Include:

• Major industries - agriculture first, then mining, then manufacturing, etc.
• Major outputs
• SEZ's and development if available, remember the link
• Standard of living compared to other parts of country

Demographics

Include:

• List major ethnic groups, population and percentage of each.
• If possible, do indicate the amount of city population and rural population, and standards of living within each group.
• Income levels of age groups and sex ratios may be useful.

Culture

Include:

• Languages dialects or languages
• Cuisine
• Operas and music

Transportation

Include:

• Air Transport, airports
• Rail Transport (which major railway it's on), list of Railway stations
• LRT/Metro and internal transportation.
• Principal expressways and highways

Tourism

Include:

• City sites (temples etc.)
• Historical sites
• Natural sites
• World Heritage sites
• Transportation

Education

• List major Colleges and Universities
• Also list famous high schools.

Miscellaneous topics

Include:

• Sports teams (CBA, China Super League etc...)
• Famous people from this province

External links

Bureau of Statistics

• Put city's government website here.

(For prefecture-level cities: Use a box such as the one below. There is a full list at Category:People's Republic of China prefecture-level subdivision templates. There is also a gallery of templates at WikiProject China/Chinese cities workgroup/Prefecture navbox templates.)

(For county-level cities: Make a box of the county-level divisions 县级行政区 in the same prefecture, and put it at the bottom of all the pages of each county-level division in the same province.)