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Many economists, consultants and businesses classify cities in China based on the tier system. [4] Businesses frequently refer to the tier system in, for example, devising marketing strategy, as it is understood that treating China as one market is simply not feasible: consumers from different regions and cities have vastly different income levels, behaviors, and trends. [5]
Zhao C (Chinese: 赵C; pinyin: Zhào C) is a well-known example, having attracted much media attention [11] [12] due to a bizarre case regarding a forced name change by the government due to naming regulations. This case is the first of name rights in the People's Republic of China. [13]
Postal romanization [1] was a system of transliterating place names in China developed by postal authorities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For many cities, the corresponding postal romanization was the most common English-language form of the city's name from the 1890s until the 1980s, when postal romanization was replaced by pinyin, but the system remained in place on Taiwan ...
†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945). The Korean name is unchanged. ‡Name change in English due to replacement McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000. The Korean name is unchanged.
According to the administrative divisions of the People's Republic of China, including Hong Kong and Macau, [clarify] there are three levels of cities: provincial-level cities [1] (consisting of municipalities and Special Administrative Regions [failed verification] [clarify] [2]), prefecture-level cities, and county-level cities.
This partial list of city nicknames in China compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in China are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.
The U.S. has long accused China of intellectual property theft and the issue has been a key sore point in U.S.-China relations. But this is the first time the Five Eyes members have joined ...
In his study of place-names in China, J. E. Spencer notes that "although Chinese names indicate both domestic cultural and geographical influences, they almost never indicate cultural influence from other parts of the world", [1] a tendency that also appeared to be characteristic of Chinese place-names in Singapore. [2]