A big city among those directly under Hunan Provincial Government, Shaoyang is slow in economic development and backward in urbanization.

邵阳市是湖南省辖市中的一个大市，但又是一个经济欠发达、城市化水平落后的市。

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Of the school's 900 students, over 400 are financed by the Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), a statutory body under the provincial government which in turn receives aid from donors such as Britain.

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There are around 80 terrestrial TV stations, more than 175 FM radios and hundreds of press titles, operating under a wide range of ownerships - from the government, provincial political-military powers and private owners to foreign and NGO sponsors.

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Had we switched to one of the provincial statistical offices still generating reliable figures, we fear it would have come under government pressure.

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