How many prefecture-level cities are there in China?

According to the statistical bulletin of urban and rural construction in 20 16 issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, there were 657 municipalities directly under the central government at the end of 20 16, an increase of 1 over the previous year, including 4 municipalities directly under the central government, 293 prefecture-level cities and 360 county-level cities. According to the statistics of 656 cities and 2 special zones, the urban registered population is 403 million, the temporary population is 74 million, and the built-up area is 54,300 square kilometers.

Reference: Link to the website of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Prefecture-level cities are one of the administrative divisions in China. In China, the administrative status belongs to the prefecture-level administrative region, so it is called "prefecture-level city" because its administrative system level is the same as that of the region. From 1983, 1 1.5, it has been fixed as a term of administrative division in the division statistics of state administrative agencies, replacing the previous names of special cities.

Historical predecessor: the predecessor of prefecture-level cities can be traced back to the "state" in Tang and Song Dynasties, the "government" in Ming and Qing Dynasties, followed by counties and scattered States (equivalent to today's county-level cities). It is a second-level administrative unit between provinces and counties, and is directly led by provinces with first-level administrative units (Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties called provinces, Tang and Song Dynasties called praise or Taoism). In the early years of the Republic of China, the abandoned government kept the county and the provinces set the road. The counties under the former government were classified as Dao, and the three-level system of province, prefecture and county was changed to the three-level system of province, Dao and county. 1927, the abandoned road was changed to the provincial and county (city) two-level system, and the county where the former government was located was divided into counties to set up cities, which had the same status as counties.

Formation process: 1932, the Republic of China began to set up an "administrative supervision area" between provinces and counties, which belongs to a quasi-administrative division unit, and its management organization, the Office of the Administrative Ombudsman, is an institution sent by the provincial government. 1949 10 1, after the founding of new China, the administrative supervision area was changed to a special area, 197 1, and the special area was changed to a district. 1980s, this area merged with the city and implemented the system reform of city governing county, which is the beginning of today's prefecture-level cities. The system of city governing county originated in the early 1950s. 1950 The administrative area of Lü da was changed to Lü da, a municipality directly under the Central Government, and Jinxian County and Changshan County were under its jurisdiction (1953 was renamed as Changhai County). After restructuring into a municipality under the jurisdiction of Liaoning Province, it will continue to administer Jinxian County and Changhai County. 195 1 year, Zhejiang Province placed Hangzhou County under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou City. 1958, Hebei province abolished the "Tianjin Special Zone" and placed Wuqing, Jinghai and other 12 counties under the leadership of Tianjin. In September, 2007, the ninth meeting of the second the NPC Standing Committee adopted the Decision on Municipalities Governing Counties and Autonomous Counties, which made legal provisions on the system of city governing counties and directly promoted the development of the system of city governing counties. From 65438 to 0960, 52 cities led 243 counties in China, accounting for about one-eighth of the total number of counties in China. The turning point of the system of city governing county was the Great Leap Forward and the People's Commune Movement, which lacked an objective economic and cultural foundation and soon cooled down. 196 1 year later, with the beginning of economic adjustment and rectification, a large number of cities and counties restored their original systems, and all the special zones and committees in Hebei Province were restored. By 1966, the number of cities under the jurisdiction of counties in China had dropped to 25, and the number of counties under its jurisdiction was less than one third of that in 1960. At this point, the system of city governing county experienced the first ups and downs. Up to now, the non-agricultural population is still dominant in the jurisdiction of provincial cities, mostly provincial capitals or important industrial cities. 65438-0979, the State Council Finance and Economics Committee sent an expert group to investigate the industrial structure of Sichuan Province. At that time, Liu Mingfu, then director of the Institute of Finance and Trade of China Academy of Social Sciences, clearly put forward the concept of "central city". 1982 the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China No.51issued the notice of "reforming the regional system and implementing the municipal leading county system", and 1983 took the lead in piloting in Jiangsu and the whole country. Subsequently, the central government issued the "Notice on Several Issues Concerning the Institutional Reform of Party and Government Organs at the Prefecture Level", demanding "actively trying out the merger at the prefecture level", which was regarded as the important content of 1983 local government reform. At this point, the system of city governing county began to be implemented throughout the country. In the sequence of national administrative divisions, cities were officially divided into prefecture-level cities and county-level cities.

Establish standards:

1. There are more than 250,000 people engaged in non-agricultural industries in urban areas, including more than 200,000 people engaged in non-agricultural industries in the municipal government;

2, the total industrial and agricultural output value of more than 3 billion yuan, of which industrial output value accounted for more than 80%;

3, the regional GDP of more than 2.5 billion yuan;

4. The tertiary industry is developed, and its output value exceeds that of the primary industry, accounting for more than 35% of the regional GDP;

5. A county-level city, with a local budget revenue of more than 200 million yuan, can only be upgraded to a prefecture-level city if it becomes a central city within several cities and counties.

Main categories:

1. Set up municipal districts, administer counties, autonomous counties, banners and autonomous banners, and manage county-level administrative regions such as county-level cities; Such prefecture-level cities account for the vast majority.

2, only set up municipal districts, regardless of counties, autonomous counties, flags, autonomous flags, nor escrow county-level cities and other county-level administrative regions; Such as Wuhai, Nanjing, Xiamen, Laiwu, Wuhan, Ezhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Haikou, Sanya and Karamay.

3. There is no municipal district, no matter which county, autonomous county, banner or autonomous banner is under its jurisdiction, nor does it manage county-level administrative regions such as county-level cities; These prefecture-level cities are directly under the jurisdiction of township-level administrative regions, commonly known as "direct package cities"; Such as Dongguan City, Zhongshan City, Sansha City, Danzhou City and Jiayuguan City.

Establishment type: As far as its formation mode is concerned, the prefecture-level cities after 1983 can be roughly divided into several types, namely:

1, directly inherit the original provincial cities, or delimit several new counties.

2. "City-city merger". That is, the regional administrative office and the prefecture-level city government are in the same central city, so the prefecture-level city and the regional administrative office are merged into one prefecture-level city. For example, Shijiazhuang City, Chengde City, Tangshan City, Baoding City and Zhangjiakou City in Hebei Province, Wenzhou City and Ningbo City in Zhejiang Province, Jiujiang City in Jiangxi Province and Guilin City in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region all merged their regional administrative offices into prefecture-level cities with the same name; Datong City, Shanxi Province and Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province were formed by the merger of Datong City and Yanbei District, Harbin City and Songhua River District respectively, but they are all original prefecture-level cities and regions with different names. In this case, the general operation is to cancel the regional administrative office, and all the counties under it are placed under the corresponding prefecture-level cities. However, there are exceptions. For example, 1994, when Jingzhou and Shashi merged into Jingsha (later renamed Jingzhou), Jingzhou was the main body, because there was no subordinate county in Shashi, and Jingzhou was not in Shashi, but in Jingzhou, which belonged to Jiangling County at that time.

3, "land to city", that is, the original regional administrative office directly changed to prefecture-level cities. For example, Chenzhou City and Huaihua City in Hunan Province, Bijie City and tongren city City in Guizhou Province, Shigatse City and Changdu City in Xizang Autonomous Region were all restructured from the administrative office of the same name, while Yongzhou City in Hunan Province was restructured from Lingling District.

4. Upgrade from a county-level city or county to a prefecture-level city. For example, Sanmenxia City, Luohe City, Henan Province, Dayong City, Hunan Province (now Zhangjiajie City), Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, Dongguan City, Sanya City, Hainan Province, etc. Before the establishment of prefecture-level cities, they were all county-level cities. Chaozhou City, Jieyang City, Qingyuan City and Heyuan City in Guangdong Province, Puyang City in Henan Province and zhongwei City in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region were established as county-level organizations before establishing prefecture-level cities. These county-level cities or counties are not the seat of regional administrative offices.

5. Directly upgrade from township to prefecture-level city. There are few such cases, such as Shanwei City, Guangdong Province. Before the establishment of the city, the highest local government was Shanwei Town, which belonged to Haifeng County. After the establishment of Shanwei City (prefecture level), it is under the jurisdiction of Haifeng County.