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3rd Most populous province?

According to the Times World Atlas and a number of other sources Sichuan has the largest population of any province in China with about 109,980,000 million people - a lot more than the 86,730,000 cited in this article. I have seen other sources which give a figure in the 80 millions. Does anyone have any explanation for these disparities?

Don't forget a fair-sized chunk of Sichuan was split off as Chongqing municipality in 1997. Your reference probably predates that. -- Curps 02:14, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yep.. Sichuan was the most populous province of China until the establishment of Chongqing municipality. -- ran (talk) 02:35, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Chinahighlights as a source

While I was cleaning up the Giant Panda section, I tried fixing the sources, and it wouldn't let me use one of their sources. It is here. ( https://www chinahighlights com/giant-panda/habitat.htm, Giant Pandas' Habitat — Bamboo Forest in Western China by Kelly. ) I only removed the ref signs, and destroyed the link (removed the . of .com and www.).

Economic development zones

Why is there so much detail on various "Economic development zones" that don't have stand-alone articles? (Chengdu Hi-tech Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, etc.) I am tempted to remove them entirely from this article.

Some of them are unreferenced and wouldn't be reasonable stand-alone articles as-is ... but that lack of quality isn't a reason to keep it here. Walt Yoder (talk) 02:54, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]