Place:Sub-prefectural city
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
- Gaozhou
- Lufeng
- Luoding
- Nanxiong
- Puning
- Yangchun
- Yingde
Guizhou
- Renhuai
Hainan
- Dongfang
- Qionghai
- Wanning
- Wenchang
- Wuzhishan
Hebei
- Dingzhou
- Qian'an
- Xinji
Heilongjiang
- Suifenhe
Henan
- Dengzhou
- Gongyi
- Jiyuan
- Ruzhou
- Yongcheng
Hubei
- Qianjiang
- Tianmen
- Xiantao
Hunan
- Shaoshan
Inner Mongolia
- Erenhot
- Manzhouli
Jiangsu
- Kunshan
- Taixing
Jiangxi
- Fengcheng
- Gongqingcheng
- Ruijin
Jilin
- Gongzhuling
- Meihekou
Qinghai
- Golmud
Shaanxi
- Hancheng
Xinjiang
- Note: all cities are also under the subordination of the Prefecture-level Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC or Bingtuan).
- Aral
- Baiyang
- Beitun
- Huyanghe
- Kokdala
- Kunyu
- Shihezi
- Shuanghe
- Tiemenguan
- Tumxuk
- Wujiaqu
- Xinxing
Zhejiang
- Yiwu
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