Sub-prefectural city

People's Republic of China subprefecture-level subdivision
Administrative divisions
of China
Sub-provincial level
Sub-provincial cities

Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures


Sub-provincial city districts
Prefectural cities

Autonomous prefectures


Leagues (Aimag)
(abolishing)


Prefectures

(abolishing)
Sub-prefectural-level
Sub-prefectural cities

Provincial-controlled cities


Provincial-controlled counties


Provincial-controlled districts
Analogous county level units
Management areas
Management committee
Townships

Ethnic townships


Towns


Subdistricts
Subdistrict bureaux


Sum


Ethnic sum


County-controlled districts
County-controlled district bureaux
(obsolete)


Management committees


Town-level city

(pilot)
Analogous township level units
Management areas
Management committee

Areas


Farms area (Overseas Chinese Farm Region [zh]), Prison area, University towns, etc.

History: before 1912, 1912–49, 1949–present


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A sub-prefectural municipality (simplified Chinese: 副地级市; traditional Chinese: 副地級市; pinyin: fùdìjíshì), sub-prefectural city, or vice-prefectural municipality, is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China. A sub-prefectural city is officially considered to be a county-level city, 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" county-level city—though still lower than those of a prefecture-level city.

While county-level cities are under the administrative jurisdiction of prefecture-level divisions, sub-prefectural cities are often (but not always) administered directly by the provincial government, with no intervening prefecture level administration.

Examples of sub-prefectural cities that does not belong to any prefecture: Jiyuan (Henan Province), Xiantao, Qianjiang and Tianmen (Hubei), Shihezi, Tumxuk, Aral, and Wujiaqu (Xinjiang).

Examples of sub-prefectural cities that nevertheless belong to a prefecture: Golmud (Haixi, Qinghai), Manzhouli (Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia).[citation needed]

List of sub-prefectural divisions

Note: Bold not under any prefecture-level subordination.

Guangdong

Guizhou

Hainan

Hebei

Heilongjiang

Henan

Hubei

Hunan

Inner Mongolia

Jiangsu

Jiangxi

Jilin

Qinghai

Shaanxi

Xinjiang

Note: all cities are also under the subordination of the Prefecture-level Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC or Bingtuan).

Zhejiang

References