Question: What Chinese Province had the largest population until 1997?
Answer: Sichuan

Question: Why did Sichuan lose its status as the most populous Province in 1997?
Answer: Chongqing as well as the three surrounding prefectures of Fuling, Wanxian, and Qianjiang were split off into the new Chongqing Municipality.

Question: Why was the Chongqing Municipality formed?
Answer: to spearhead China's effort to economically develop its western provinces

Question: Why did China need to resettle people into Chongqing?
Answer: the Three Gorges Dam project.

Question: What was the population of Sichuan in 1982?
Answer: 99,730,000

Question: How many distinct parts make up Sichuan?
Answer: two

Question: What makes up majority of the eastern Sichuan province?
Answer: Sichuan basin

Question: Western Sichuan is delineated by what mountain range?
Answer: Hengduan Mountains

Question: Which mountain range contains the highest point in the Gongga Shan province?
Answer: Daxue Mountains

Question: How many feet above sea level is the highest point of the Saxue Mountains?
Answer: 24,790 ft

Question: Which river flows through the Sichuan Basin?
Answer: Yangtze River

Question: Which tributary of the Yangtze flows through central Sichuan?
Answer: Min River

Question: What are the 4 main rivers in Sichuan?
Answer: Jaling Jiang, Tuo Jiang, Yalong Jiang, and Jinsha Jiang

Question: Name some cities downstream of the Yangtze river that are to the east of Sichuan.
Answer: Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai

Question: What climate classification does the Sichuan Basin hold?
Answer: humid subtropical climate

Question: What area of China has the least amount of sunlight?
Answer: the Sichuan Basin

Question: Garze County and Zoige County in Sichuan experience what kind of climate?
Answer: subarctic climate

Question: What is the range of average elevation in the Sichuan Basin?
Answer: 2,000 to 3,500 meters

Question: What is the range of average temperature in the Sichuan Basin?
Answer: 0 to 15 °C

Question: What area for the "Province of Abundance" refer to?
Answer: Sichuan

Question: What are the major agricultural outputs of Sichuan?
Answer: rice and wheat

Question: What kind of meat is Sichuan known to produce in abundance?
Answer: pork

Question: How much of China's titanium is houses in Sichuan?
Answer: 93%

Question: What is often done with Sichuan's natural gas reserves?
Answer: transported to more developed eastern regions

Question: What are some major industrial outputs of Sichuan?
Answer: coal, energy, iron and steel

Question: What areas are major areas of production for textiles and electronics?
Answer: Chengdu and Mianyang

Question: How much of China's wine did Sichuan produce in 2000?
Answer: 21.9%

Question: Which city in Sichuan is known for its machinery production?
Answer: Deyang

Question: Which city in Sichuan is known for its metallurgical industries?
Answer: Panzhihua

Question: What is the largest dam ever built in the world?
Answer: Three Gorges Dam

Question: On which river is the Three Gorges Dam built?
Answer: Yangtze River

Question: What is the purpose of the Three Gorges Dam?
Answer: to control flooding in the Sichuan Basin, neighboring Yunnan province, and downstream

Question: What are some reasons for the opposition of the Three Gorges Dam?
Answer: massive resettlement of residents in the reservoir areas, loss of archeological sites, and ecological damages.

Question: By how much did foreign trade increase in Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: 53.3 percent

Question: What was the export level of Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: US$13.1 billion

Question: What was the import level of Sichuan in 2008?
Answer: US$8.93 billion

Question: What cities saw an increase in foreign trade of more than 40% in 2008?
Answer: Chengdu, Suining, Nanchong, Dazhou, Ya'an, Abazhou, and Liangshan

Question: By how much did Sichuan increase minimum wage in December 2007?
Answer: 12.5 percent

Question: What was the new monthly minimum wage in Sichuan by January 2008?
Answer: 450 yuan

Question: What was the minimum hourly wage in Sichuan on December 28, 2007?
Answer: 4.9 yuan

Question: What is the national minimum monthly wage in China?
Answer: 450 yuan per month

Question: When was the Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone approved?
Answer: February 2000

Question: What is the planned size of the Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone?
Answer: CETDZ

Question: How far east of Chengdu is CETDZ?
Answer: 8.5 mi

Question: What is the capital city of Sichuan?
Answer: Chengdu

Question: How many countries are represented by the investors and developers of the CETDZ?
Answer: 20

Question: When was the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone established?
Answer: 1988

Question: When was the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone approved?
Answer: 1991

Question: The Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone is what rank of 53 in China terms of comprehensive strength?
Answer: 5th

Question: Which Parks make up the Chengdu Hi-tech Development Zone?
Answer: South Park and the West Park

Question: Which industries does West Park give priority to?
Answer: electronic information, biomedicine and precision machinery

Question: What is the focus of the South Park?
Answer: creating a modernized industrial park of science and technology

Question: What industry does South Park give priority to?
Answer: software industry

Question: What is the planned area of the Mianyang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone?
Answer: 17 sq mi

Question: What is the distance between the Mianyang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone and Mianyang Airport?
Answer: 8 km

Question: How much value has Mianyang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone  output since inception?
Answer: 177.4 billion yuan

Question: How many high-tech enterprises are present in the Mianyang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone ?
Answer: 136

Question: How long did it take to complete the Sui-Yu Expressway?
Answer: three years

Question: After the newest expressway was completed, what was the new travel time between Chengdu and Chongqing?
Answer: two and a half hours

Question: What is the speed limit on the Sui-Yu Expressway?
Answer: 80 km/h (50 mph)

Question: What was the total cost of the Sui-Yu Expressway?
Answer: 1.045 billion yuan

Question: How many lanes make up the Sui-Yu Expressway?
Answer: four lane

Question: What race is the majority of Sichuan?
Answer: Han Chinese

Question: What is one of the largest minorities in Chengdu?
Answer: Tibetan

Question: Which part of Sichuan has the worst weather and subjected to natural disasters?
Answer: far western areas.

Question: How many permanent Tibetan people live in Chengdu?
Answer: 30,000

Question: What are the three most populist provinces in China?
Answer: Guangdong, Shandong and Henan

Question: What was the population of Sichuan in 1832?
Answer: 21 million

Question: What is the tenth most populous sub-national entity in the world?
Answer: Sichuan

Question: How many sub-national entities have surpassed 100 million people in total?
Answer: six

Question: In what year was the Soviet Union disbanded?
Answer: 1991

Question: What are the largest minorities of western Sichuan?
Answer: Tibetans and Qiang

Question: What languages do Tibetans in Sichuan speak?
Answer: Khams and Amdo Tibetan

Question: What language do the Yi people speak?
Answer: Nuosu

Question: In what year was the language of the Yi people standardized?
Answer: 1974

Question: Which University houses one of China's most prominent Tibetology departments?
Answer: Southwest University for Nationalities

Question: What was Unicode published as?
Answer: The Unicode Standard

Question: What was unicode developed in conjunction with?
Answer: Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)

Question: What is the most recent version of Unicode?
Answer: Unicode 8.0

Question: Who maintains the Unicode Standard? 
Answer: Unicode Consortium