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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikivoyage or other free sources online. East China is a key area of China historically, politically, and economically. The region is an economic powerhouse beyond even the Pearl River Delta in South China. If this area were a country, its population of 156 million (2010 census) would be 8th largest in the world (after Nigeria, ahead of Bangladesh), and its GDP of over $15 billion would be 12th (after Canada, ahead of Australia). The area has many millions of migrants from poorer provinces of China especially Anhui just inland from it, and Sichuan who come mainly to seek work. This book offers information on East China region and its most notable places.

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