Fujian Province (Tongyong Pinyin and Hanyu Pinyin; Wades-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal map spelling: Fukien; POJ: Hok-kian; Chinese: 福建省) is a province on the coast of southeastern China. Since 1949, Fujian has been split between two separate governments: the vast majority of Fujian province has been governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC); while a number of offshore islands have been governed by the Republic of China (ROC) government in Taiwa...
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Fujian Province (Tongyong Pinyin and Hanyu Pinyin; Wades-Giles: Fu-chien; Postal map spelling: Fukien; POJ: Hok-kian; Chinese: 福建省) is a province on the coast of southeastern China. Since 1949, Fujian has been split between two separate governments: the vast majority of Fujian province has been governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC); while a number of offshore islands have been governed by the Republic of China (ROC) government in Taiwan. The PRC and ROC have each maintained its own respective Fujian provincial government to administer the portions that it controls. This article describes the specific portion of Fujian governed by the Republic of China. See Fujian for a description of the entire province, especially the part currently governed by the People's Republic of China.
The seat of the provincial government of ROC-controlled Fujian is Chincheng Township of Kinmen County. Between 1956 to 1992, the ROC moved the Fujian provincial government out of Fujian Province...
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