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| Administrative divisions of China |
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Analogous county level units Management areas Management committee |
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 |
Asub-prefectural municipality (simplified Chinese:副地级市;traditional Chinese:副地級市;pinyin:fùdìjíshì),sub-prefectural city, orvice-prefectural municipality, is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China. A sub-prefectural city is officially considered to be acounty-level city, but it has more powerde 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 aprefecture-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 andTianmen (Hubei),Shihezi,Tumxuk,Aral, andWujiaqu (Xinjiang).
Examples of sub-prefectural cities that nevertheless belong to a prefecture:Golmud (Haixi,Qinghai),Manzhouli (Hulunbuir,Inner Mongolia).[citation needed]