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French: provinces de l'intérieur

English translation: inland provinces (in China)







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French term or phrase:provinces de l'intérieur (en Chine)
English translation:inland provinces (in China)
Entered by:Conor McAuley
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Bus/Financial - Geography
French term or phrase: provinces de l'intérieur
"Présentation des provinces de l’intérieur et de projets d’entreprises"

China not including Hong Kong, etc.?

Conor McAuley
France
inland provinces
Explanation:
This page gives a nice map!
Selected response from:

Tony M
France
Note from asker to answerer
The client has "interior provinces" later in the text (trying to scrape a few centimes off my fee, grr!) so that is what I used, but obviously "inland" is better. And wins the Google battle.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5inland provinces
Tony M
4 +4(China's) interior provinces
Carol Gullidge
4 +2provinces of the interior
Rachel Fell
2 +3non-coastal provinces
Francis MARC
4mainland provincesetienne muylle i wallace
5 -1remote provinces
telefpro


  


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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
remote provinces

Explanation:
I woulsd surely say this way.

telefpro
India
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree Tony M: I think that would amount to over-interpretation here
8 mins
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +3
non-coastal provinces

Explanation:
ma compréhension

Francis MARC
Lithuania
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 7

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Tony M: I agree in principal, but please see my own suggestion for what i feel is possibly a more natural wording in EN (and the link to a map confirming your idea)
6 mins

neutral telefpro: I feel you are too enthusiastic about your own answer
21 mins

agree Assimina Vavoula
2 hrs

agree sneaky13
5 hrs
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
mainland provinces

Explanation:
Thatis how the Chinese call the provinces that are not Hong Kong, makao, etc.

etienne muylle i wallace
Spain
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Tony M: But I don't believe that's exactly what is being referred to here
7 mins
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
inland provinces

Explanation:
This page gives a nice map!


    Reference: http://www.cefc.com.hk/fr/pc/articles/art_ligne.php?num_art_...
Tony M
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Note from asker to answerer
The client has "interior provinces" later in the text (trying to scrape a few centimes off my fee, grr!) so that is what I used, but obviously "inland" is better. And wins the Google battle.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Ingeborg Gowans
41 mins
  -> Dnake, Ingeborg!

agree juliebarba: the 'middle' + 'inside' of the Basque country is known as l’intérieur...
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Julie!

agree Assimina Vavoula: Hi, Tony...
2 hrs
  -> Efharisto, Assimina!

agree jean-jacques alexandre: Hi Tony & in total accord with your comments above
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, J-J! :-)

agree Rachel Fell
20 hrs
  -> Thanks, Rachel!
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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
(China's) interior provinces

Explanation:
as in:

earlywarning: China's Regional gapAccelerated growth in China's interior provinces has not altered the fundamental divide between development levels in coastal and inland regions. ...
www.earlywarning.com/articles/2004_12_06_china_regional_gap - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

Go West my son! The Interior Provinces of China.Go West my son! The Interior Provinces of China. ... The Interior Provinces of China. Replying to [Street Smart]:My points entirely, but these companies ...
resources.alibaba.com/topic/19632/Go_West_my_son_The_Interior_Provinces_of_China_.htm - 46k - Cached - Similar pages

Problems of managing joint ventures in China's interior: evidence ...By 2002, 31822 foreign enterprises had been established in China's 18 interior provinces and one municipality (SSB, 2003, p.678). ...
www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-13903445_ITM - 28k - Cached - Similar pages

[PDF] 6/2 TOCFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
the coastal and the interior provinces in China since the advent of economic re-. form in the late s. The result is a theoretically informed and ...
muse.jhu.edu/demo/china_review_international/v006/6.2parris.pdf - Similar pages

[PDF] China Intermodal Transport Services to Interior Provinces Project ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
China Intermodal Transport Services to Interior Provinces Project. TTA/Consilium – 6033. 39. 3. Work Plan for 2002/03. To achieve the outputs that were ...
itsip.com/PPR_PPP_2002_03_final.pdf - Similar pages

CHINA & INNER ASIA SESSIONSEconomic Reforms and Regional Income Inequality in China ... By contrast, interior provinces had less access to foreign investment and technology and could ...
www.aasianst.org/absts/2007abst/China/C-143.htm - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

[PDF] Opening Remarks On International Seminar on Human Resource ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
6. infrastructure is much less developed in the interior provinces;. 7. poverty is concentrated in the interior regions -- 82 percent of. China's poverty


Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Tony M: Not a bad solution, after all!
1 hr
  -> thanks, Tony! :-)

agree Assimina Vavoula
1 hr
  -> thanks, Assimina!

agree xvsy: I find the opposition between 'coastal' and 'interior' frequent in the context of China's provinces.
8 hrs
  -> thank you, xvsy! :-)

agree Rachel Fell
20 hrs
  -> thanks, Rachel!
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
provinces of the interior

Explanation:
that's what came to mind

Marketplace for February 19, 1997
It took five and a half hours for the passing of China's paramount leader to become public, ... The friction between the have-not provinces of the interior, ...
marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/1997/02/19_mpp.html - 19

China :: Provincial government -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
China, Provincial government: At the outset of the Han dynasty, vast areas were ... nature were set up both there and in the provinces of the interior, ...
www.britannica.com/eb/article-71656/China - 232k - Cached

NPR : China's President Hu Jintao to Talk Business in U.S.
So moving to Hu Jintao is really moving back to China's heartland. ... he spent it in some of the poorest provinces of the interior, dramatically different ...
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5346786 -

[PDF]
CHANGING CENTRE-PROVINCE RELATIONS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
centre-province relations in China. Although the process of reform is ...... both the central authorities, and to the provinces of the interior and west. ...
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/staff/breslin/research/thesis.pdf

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Carol Gullidge: another way of putting it!
21 mins
  -> Thank you Carol!

agree Tony M
58 mins
  -> Thank you Tony!
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