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County-level cities - Definition and Overview |
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A county-level city (县级市 Pinyin: xiànjí shì) is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. County-level cities are usually governed by prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by province-level divisions.
Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing counties. This process was halted in 1997.
County-level cities are not "cities" in the strictest sense of the word, since they usually contain rural areas many times the size of their urban, built-up area. This is because the counties that county-level cities have replaced are themselves large administrative units containing towns, villages, and farmland. To distinguish a "county-level city" from its actual urban area (the traditional meaning of the word "city"), the term 市区 shìqū, or "urban area", is used.
A sub-prefecture-level city is a county-level city with powers approaching those of prefecture-level cities. Examples include Jiyuan (Henan province), Xiantao (Hubei), and Golmud (Qinghai).
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Example Usage of County-level |
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wvmtngrl07: RT @lady_of_light: #whatrepublicanswant privatized everything, the rich have everything the poor live in a third world county level poverty |
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lady_of_light: #whatrepublicanswant privatized everything, the rich have everything the poor live in a third world county level poverty |
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daltonsbriefs: @trevorfoughty thanks, similar to the "skills" positions at county level, those guys are hard to keep track of |
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