Chekiang was a province of the Republic of China (ROC) created after the end of the Qing dynasty.

The ROC abandoned Mainland China at the end of the Chinese Civil War, and Chekiang was reduced to coastal islands including Yushan, Toumenshan, Yijiangshan, Dachen, Pishan and Nanji.

[1] The ROC attacked the PRC from Chekiang, with raids on Zhejiang and occasionally areas near Shanghai.

[2] The province was seven organized into counties - Wenling, Linhai, Huangyan, Pinyang, Sanmen, Yueqing and Yuhuan.

ROC President Chiang Kai-shek appointed General Hu Zongnan to establish the provincial government on the Dachen Islands in September 1951 to fight PRC.