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Src: The Asian Studies Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
01 May 1997
China Dimensions WWW Site
Consortium for International Earth
Science Information Network (CIESIN), USA
"Highlights of the China Dimensions WWW site include the following data
resources:
(1) China Administrative Regions GIS Data: 1:1M, County Level, 1990.
(2) GB (Guo Biao -- National Standard) Codes for the Administrative
Divisions of the People's Republic of China.
(3) Fundamental GIS: Digital Chart of China, 1:1M, Version 1.
Includes layers for roads, railroads, drainage system, contours,
populated places and urbanized areas.
(4) Interactive access to the China Census of Population, 1% Sample, 1982.
(5) County-Level Data on Population and Agriculture, 1990: Keyed to 1:1M
GIS Map.
(6) County-Level Data on Provincial Economic Yearbooks, 1990-91: Keyed to
1:1M GIS Map.
(7) Agricultural Statistics of the People's Republic of China, 1949-94.
(8) County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, 1950-85.
(9) Priority Program for China's Agenda 21.
In addition, nation-level statistics on China are available through
interactive access to the World Bank's Social Indicators of Development,
Trends in Developing Economies and Monitoring Environmental Progress, and
World Resources Institute's World Resources 1996-97."
URL http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/china/
Information supplied by: (announce@ciesin.org)
* Contents' rating [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
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