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Jiangsu Province
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Jiangsu.
Modern times
After the communist takeover, Beijing (formerly Peiping) was made capital of the People's Republic, while Jiangsu was dissolved into Subei and Sunan Administrative Regions. On November 15, 1952, Jiangsu Province was reconstituted and Nanjing was demoted to be the provincial capital. The reform and opening up of Deng Xiaoping initially focused on the south coast of China, in Guangdong province, which soon left Jiangsu behind; starting from the 1990s they were applied more evenly to the rest of China. Suzhou and Wuxi, two southern cities of Jiangsu in close proximity to neighboring Shanghai, have since become particularly prosperous, being among the top 10 cities in China in terms of gross domestic product and outstripping the provincial capital of Nanjing. The income disparity between northern and southern Jiangsu however remains large.