34 provincial administrative divisions are jingles.

The jingles of the two rivers and mountains in the two lakes and two provinces are: two rivers and two mountains in the two lakes and two provinces, five rivers and clouds, five rivers and mountains, four west and two ning, green Gansu and Shaanxi, domestic Taipei, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan provinces, love my motherland and good rivers and mountains. These 34 provinces are 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities directly under the Central Government and 2 special administrative regions.

Among the provincial divisions in China, 23 provinces include two lakes, two rivers and two mountains, Guangdong, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Taiwan Province.

The five autonomous regions are Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Xizang Autonomous Region, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The four municipalities are Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing, and the two special administrative regions are Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region.

The historical development of the province

The provincial system implemented in Yuan Dynasty is the beginning of modern provincial administrative regions. All provinces belong to the local institutions of the central administrative agency Zhongshu Province, and the full name is "Zhongshu Province". The hinterland (now Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shandong and Inner Mongolia) is directly under the jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province. At that time, there were 10 provinces, 1 Chinese book provinces and 1 Zheng Xuan Academy.

In the early Ming dynasty, the yuan system was followed, and then the provinces were too powerful to be divided into three parts. There are three departments, namely, the propaganda department, the prosecution department and the command department, which are the highest organs of the provincial administrative region and have administrative power, judicial power and military power respectively. At that time, there were 14 foreign ministries, 2 zhili regions and other frontier administrative regions.

The Qing dynasty inherited the system of the Ming dynasty and made all ministers responsible for propaganda and deployment. However, the jurisdiction of the minister in charge of deployment is directly called "the province", and a fixed governor and governor are set above the envoys of each province to be responsible for the military and political affairs of the province, and the envoys become governors. At that time, there were 25 provincial administrative regions including 18 ministries (provinces).

In the early years of the Republic of China, administrative divisions followed the Qing Dynasty. After the change, this division is not always fixed because of the war or the current situation; 1945 Recovered Taiwan Province Province, 1946 Outer Mongolia became independent. By 1949, there are 50 provincial administrative regions including 35 provinces.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the local administrative unit at the national level was once a large administrative region, which has been basically stable at1965 after many changes; Hainan Province was founded in 1988. China has 23 provinces.