Provinces that is China's provincial administrative regions , is the same administrative status as the province of the administrative region for the first level of administrative regions, including provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, special administrative regions. China *** counts 34 provincial administrative regions, including 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, 2 special administrative regions. Province name originated very early, the Wei and Jin dynasties have Shangshu province, the province of the name, but all for the central office, not directly under the jurisdiction of the local.

When Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty attacked Chen in the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Kaihuang (588), he set up the province of Huainan in Shouchun, but it was soon abolished. At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, there was a system of provinces, and the province of Shangshu was set up in the field, but it was short-lived. After the rise of the Mongols, the province system was modeled after that of Jin. On the one hand, Emperor Yuan Shizu merged the province of Shangshu into the province of Zhongshu, which was the prime minister of the imperial government.

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China's first level of administrative division, the name of the highest local administrative region. The provincial people's government of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China is the executive organ of the provincial people's congress, consisting of the governor, vice-governors, secretary-general, directors, chiefs, and heads of committees, and is elected for a term of five years, and is responsible to the provincial people's congress and the State Council and reports on its work.

The provincial people's government is governed by a system of responsibility of the governor, whose main powers and functions are: to carry out and implement the resolutions of the provincial people's congresses and the resolutions and orders of the State Council, to formulate rules and regulations in accordance with the Constitution and the law, to issue resolutions and orders, to prescribe administrative measures, to direct the work of the departments and people's governments of the various levels to which it belongs, and to appoint, remove, reward and punish the staff of the organs of the State in accordance with the powers and procedures prescribed by law.

Managing the province's economy, culture, education, science, health, civil affairs, public security, ethnic affairs, family planning and spiritual civilization. As of 2011 China*** has 34 provincial administrative regions, including 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities directly under the central government, and 2 special administrative regions.