Question: Do Leshan and Pizhou belong to the same province?

Context articles: Leshan dialect
Li Lianyu
Leshan
Leshan Giant Buddha
Rongxian Giant Buddha
Pizhou
Chengdu–Mianyang–Leshan Intercity Railway
Chengdu–Guiyang High-Speed Railway
Roman Catholic Diocese of Jiading
Daliang Mountains

The Sichuanese dialect of the city of Leshan is a variety of Minjiang, which preserves old southern (Ba-Shu) features lost in other Sichuanese dialects and is very different from the dialects of most other cities in the province of Sichuan, which are more typically Mandarin.
Li Lianyu (born December 1959) is a Chinese politician who spent most of his career in Jiangsu province.
 Through his career he successively served as the Communist Party Secretary of the county-level city of Pizhou, the Vice-Mayor of Xuzhou, and Deputy Party Secretary of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang.
 He was removed from office in September 2014, and was investigated by the Communist Party of China's anti-graft agency in November 2014.
Leshan, formerly known as Jiading, is a prefecture-level city located at the confluence of the Dadu and Min rivers in Sichuan Province, China.
 Leshan is located on the southwestern fringe of the Red Basin in southern Sichuan, about 120 km from Chengdu.
 At the 2010 census, its population was 3,235,759 whom 662,814 lived in the built-up ("or metro") area made of Shizhong district, as Wutongqiao and Jinkouhe districts are not conurbated yet.
The Leshan Giant Buddha () is a 71 m tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803 (during the Tang Dynasty), depicting Maitreya.
 It is carved out of a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the Min River and Dadu River in the southern part of Sichuan province in China, near the city of Leshan.
 The stone sculpture faces Mount Emei, with the rivers flowing below its feet.
 It is the largest and tallest stone Buddha statue in the world and it is by far the tallest pre-modern statue in the world.
The Rongxian Giant Buddha (Chinese: 荣县; pinyin: Róngxìan) formerly romanized as Yong-hien or Hong-yien, is a 36.7 m tall stone statue, built around 817 (during the Tang Dynasty), depicting Maitreya.
 It is 90 kilometres east of the Leshan Giant Buddha.
 The Buddha is carved out of the cliff face of a stone hill that lies to the north east of Rongxian and the Rongxi River in the eastern part of Sichuan province in China.
 Standing 414 metres above sea level, the stone sculpture overlooks the town of Rongxian below its feet.
 After the Leshan Giant it is the second tallest pre-modern statue.
 The Temple is located on the Dafo Road, Rongxian, Zigong Shi, Sichuan Sheng, China.
 Dàfó (大佛) in Chinese means Big Bhudda.
 The nearest city is Zigong.
Pizhou () is a county-level city under the administration of Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China.
 As of 2006 it had a population of 163,000; it borders the Shandong prefecture-level cities of Linyi to the northeast and Zaozhuang to the northwest.
Chengdu–Mianyang–Leshan Intercity Railway() is a high-speed intercity railway in Sichuan Province, China that connects Mianyang, Chengdu, Deyang, Meishan, Emei and Leshan.
 The line is 314 km in length and can accommodate trains traveling at the speed of 200 km/h .
 Construction began in 2008 and was completed on June 29, 2014.
 Revenue service began on December 20, 2014.
Chengdu-Guiyang High Speed Railway is a major trunk high speed railway between the provincial capitals of Chengdu, Sichuan and Guiyang, Guizhou via a small section traversing north east Yunnan province.
 It was selected for construction under the 11th Five Year Plan set by the Chinese Government.
 Construction started in 2010 and is expected to be completed by 2014.
 The northern section of this line between Chengdu and Leshan forms the southern part of the operational Chengdu–Mianyang–Leshan Intercity Railway.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jiading/(currently) Leshan (Latin: "Chiatimen(sis)" , ) is a diocese located in the city of Leshan in the Ecclesiastical province of Chongqing in China.
The Daliang Mountains () are in the southern part of the province of Sichuan in China.
 The Daliang rises above the left bank of the Jinsha (Upper Yangtze) River, opposite the Wulian Feng in Yunnan Province.
 This part of the Jinsha River is the last portion to flow through mountainous terrain before entering the Sichuan Basin where the river becomes known as the Yangtze at Yibin.
 The Daliang are located within eastern Liangshan Prefecture, southern Leshan Prefecture, and western Yibin Prefecture.