region; area (informal or geographical term) · prefecture (in China's administrative system)

Everyone around the area works hard.

Fifteen per cent of the housing will be affordable, so that low-income families will be able to buy or rent homes in the area.

The floor in this area needs to be redone.

He promised to bring new industries to the region, but politicians rarely keep their word.

As figures from the National Development and Reform Committee show, the Internet has developed rapidly in rural China.