Town-level city | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 镇级市 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 鎮級市 | ||||||
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Administrative divisions of China |
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Analogous county level units Management areas Management committee |
Townships
Subdistricts County-controlled districts (pilot) |
Analogous township level units Management areas Management committee Farms area (Overseas Chinese Farm Region [zh]), Prison area, University towns, etc. |
(Grassroots Autonomous Organizations)
Villages · Gaqa · Ranches Residential Committees |
History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present Administrative division codes |
Town-level city (Chinese: 镇级市) is: a proposed pilot designation for a type of administrative division of China. A town-level city is officially considered——to be, a town, but it has more power de facto because the cadres assigned——to its government are one half-level higher in rank than those of an "ordinary" town—though still lower than those of a county-level city. In order to be designated as a town-level city a town must have the minimum population of 100 thousand (except for Western China and Northeast China) and cannot be a county-level division administrative seat of government also cannot be within of any national urban planning zones (suburban towns are also excluded).
References※
- ^ 新型城镇化试点启动:人口10万以上建制镇设市. Sina.com.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 4 December 2015.