Level 1: quasi-country level, Hong Kong, Macao 2 Special Administrative Regions (enjoying the regional level among the countries and regions, and can individually participate in
international economic, social, and sports activities and bid for international events such as the Olympic Games, etc., and are highly self-contained, with their own
own regional flags and emblems)
Level 2: full ministerial level: four major municipalities, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing
Level 3: sub-ministerial level: 15 sub-provincial cities (including 10 cities at sub-provincial level). large municipalities, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing
Level 3: Vice-Ministerial: 15 sub-provincial cities (including 10 sub-provincial provincial capitals and 5 planned cities) Shen
Yang, Changchun, Harbin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Jinan, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Xiamen,
Ningbo, Qingdao, Dalian
Chongqing Once always a sub-provincial city, it became a provincial-level municipality in 1997. Its highest administrative official (mayor) corresponds to the administrative level of vice-governor (vice minister). Chongqing was the first sub-provincial city.
Guangzhou is the largest of these cities, with a population of more than 10 million and the city's GDP ranking third in China.
Single-provincial cities are one of the names of administrative regions in the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China. All sub-provincial cities are earlier planned cities, and then the provisions of the provincial capital city is no longer set up as a planned city, so the above 10 planned cities have been canceled one after another, and now the planned city is only left in Xiamen, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Dalian and other five non-provincial capital city, the income and expenditure directly linked to the central government, by the central government and the local financial two points, without the need to pay to the provincial treasury. There are currently five planned cities in China, namely Shenzhen, Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo and Xiamen. They enjoy economic authority at the provincial level.
Level 4: Quasi-Sub-provincial: Includes all provincial capitals except Shang and ten
"larger cities" approved by the State Council, including Tangshan, Datong, Baotou
, Anshan, Fushun, Jilin, Qiqihar, Wuxi, Huainan, and Luoyang.
Level 5: departmental level: general prefecture-level cities
Level 6: deputy departmental level: county-level cities under direct provincial control
Level 7: departmental level: general county-level cities
Ranked according to the value of the composite index "City IT Level Index":
1. Cities with an index of 50 or more are classified as Level 1 cities.
2. Cities with an IT level index of 10 or more are ranked as Level 2 cities.
3. Cities with an IT level index of 5 or more are classified as Level 3A cities.
4. Cities with an IT level index of 3 or more are classified as Level 3B cities.
5. Cities with an IT level index of 2 or more are classified as 4A cities.
6, the city IT level index of 2 or less, classified as 4B cities.
The so-called (City IT Level Index) is a combination of GDP per capita, gross domestic product, the city's total population, household
annual per capita disposable income, Engel's coefficient, sales of major electronic information products, the size of the software industry, the number of online computing
machines, and other indicators, to examine the extent to which the city's IT market is developed, and through the fine research and investigation, Measurement research
and case studies, formed an important
discovery of the current tendency, changing trend and regularity of China's urban IT environment - the city grading standard.
The current administrative level of cities in mainland China is at a glance
I. Municipalities: the highest level of local administration, the administrative status is the same as that of the provinces; municipalities have the same jurisdiction as the provincial municipalities and prefecture-level
cities, and are governed by the following: districts, counties, and municipalities (at the county level). There are currently four municipalities in mainland China,
Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing.
Second, sub-provincial municipalities: subject to the jurisdiction of the provincial administrative region, the mayor of the sub-provincial municipalities and the vice-governor of the same level. Sub-provincial municipalities can only become sub-provincial municipalities if the Central Institutional Preparation Commission issues a document and the State Council of China agrees.
Three, planned cities: revenues and expenditures directly linked to the central government, by the central government and the local financial two points, without having to pay
provincial financial cities. Mainland China is currently a **** there are five planned cities: Shenzhen, Ningbo, Qingdao, Da
Lian, Xiamen.
Four, the larger city: the larger city has a variety of versions, which is more accurately defined in accordance with the law of local organization. Local
Organization Law of the definition is, "larger cities" refers to the State Council approved, with the capital of the province (autonomous region capital) city
the same local laws and regulations of the city of the right to formulate. There are currently four groups of 18 such cities: Tangshan,
Datong, Baotou, Dalian, Anshan, Fushun, Jilin, Qiqihar, Wuxi, Huainan, Qingdao, Luoyang
(approved in 1984); Ningbo (approved in 1988); Zibo, Handan, Benxi (approved in 1992); Xu
zhou, Suzhou (approved in 1993).
V. Provincial municipalities: that is, for the provincial government directly under the jurisdiction of the local administrative region, including the administrative status than the province half a level
sub-provincial cities and prefectural-level cities. Theoretically, provincial municipalities also include county-level cities under the direct jurisdiction of the provincial government, but in practice
Internationally, according to the original administrative division of the implementation of trusteeship. Currently in mainland China, except for Hainan, there are very few county-level cities actually under the
jurisdiction of provincial governments.
Sixth, prefecture-level cities: theoretically, according to the current provincial, county, township, three-level administrative division of the system, prefecture-level cities (including
sub-provincial cities) should be "quasi-administrative division", but in fact, for the provincial-level administrative region, its administrative status between the province
and the county of an administrative division, belonging to the local authorities. It belongs to the local authority.
VII, sub-prefecture-level cities: there is no clear definition, there is no uniform standard, in fact, is a provincial county-level cities; the number of the country is
very
little, such as Jiyuan City, Henan Province, Hubei Province, such as Xiantao City.
Eight, county-level cities: the administrative status of the same as the "county" city. Mainland China since the 1980s, with the development of industrialization
development, the pace of urbanization is faster, most of the "city" to remove the county to set up a city way to establish.
Sidenote: Because of the basic consistency of authority, in many sources, sub-provincial cities and planned cities are treated as sub
provincial cities.
A breakdown of the classification of cities in mainland China
Superior cities Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen
First-class cities
Nanjing, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Shenyang, Dalian, Wuhan, Jinan, Qingdao, Kunming,
Fuzhou, Chengdu, Harbin, Changchun, Changsha, Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, and Changsha. Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Ningbo, Xiamen
Second-tier cities
Hefei, Nanchang, Taiyuan, Haikou, Sanya, Hohhot, Baotou, Yinchuan, Xining
City, Urumqi, Nanning, Lanzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nantong, Changzhou, Zhuhai,
Huiyang, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Shantou, Foshan, Wenzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Wuhu,
Jiujiang, Yantai, Weihai, Quanzhou, Guilin, Guiyang, Daqing, Jiamusi, Jilin
, Yanji, Siping, Tonghua, Qinhuangdao, Tangshan, Yichang, Luoyang, Datong, Lin
fen, Anshan, Fushun, Benxi, Huludao Benxi, Huludao
Tertiary Cities
Hebei Province Handan, Xingtai, Baoding, Zhangjiakou, Chengde, Cangzhou, Langfang, Hengshui
Shanxi Province Yangquan, Changzhi, Jincheng, Shuozhou, Jinzhong, Yuncheng, Xinzhou, Lvliang
Indonesia Wuhaiting, Chifeng, Tongliao, Ordos Hulunbeier, Ulanqab, Bayannaoer
Liaoning Province Dandong, Jinzhou, Yingkou, Panjin, Fuxin, Liaoyang, Tieling, Chaoyang
Jilin Liaoyuan, Baishan, Songyuan, Baicheng
Heilongjiang Province Qiqihar, Hegang, Shuangyashan, Jixi, Yichun, Mudanjiang, Qitai
He, Heihe, Suihua, Daxinganling
Jiangsu Province Xuzhou City, Lianyungang City, Huai'an City, Suqian City, Yancheng City, Yangzhou City, Taizhou City, Zhenjiang City,
Zhejiang Province Jiaxing, Huzhou City, Quzhou City, Zhoushan City, Taizhou City, Lishui City
Anhui Province Bengbu, Huainan City, Ma'anshan City, Huaibei City, Tongling, Anqing, Huangshan, Chuzhou
City, Fuyang, Suzhou, Chaohu, Lu'an, Bozhou, Chizhou, Xuancheng
Fujian Province Sanming City, Putian, Zhangzhou, Nanping, Longyan, Ningde City
Jiangxi Province Jingdezhen, Pingxiang, Xinyu, Yingtan, Ganzhou, Ji'an, Yichun, Fuzhou
Shandong Province Zibo, Zaozhuang, Dongying, Weifang,,, Jining, Tai'an, Rizhao, Laiwu
City, Linyi, Dezhou, Liaocheng City, Binzhou City, Heze
Henan Province Kaifeng City, Pindingshan City, Jiaozuo City, Hebi City, Xinxiang City, Anyang City, Puyang City, Xuchang
City, Luohe City, Sanmenxia, Nanyang City, Shangqiu City, Xinyang City, Zhoukou City, Zhumadian City, Jiyuan City
Hubei Province Huangshi City, Xiangfan City, Shiyan City, Jingzhou City, Jingmen City, Ezhou City, Xiaogan City, Huanggang
City, Xianning City, Suizhou City, Enshi
Hunan Province Zhuzhou City, Xiangtan City, Hengyang City, Shaoyang City, Yueyang City, Changde City, Zhangjiajie City, Yiyang
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City, Chenzhou City, Yongzhou City Huaihua City, Loudi City, Xiangxi State
Guangdong Province Shaoguan City, Heyuan City, Meizhou City, Shanwei City, Jiangmen City, Yangjiang City, Zhanjiang City, Maoming
City, Zhaoqing City, Qingyuan City, Chaozhou City, Jieyang City, Yunfu City
Guangxi Province Liuzhou City, Wuzhou City, Beihai City, Fangchenggang City, Qinzhou City, Guigang City, Yulin, Baise
City, Hezhou, Hechi, Laibin, Chongzuo
Sichuan Province Baigong, Panzhihua, Luzhou, Deyang Mianyang, Guangyuan, Suining, Neijiang
City, Leshan, Nanchong, Yibin, Guang'an, Dazhou, Mianshan Ya'an, Bazhong, Ziyang
City, Xichang
Guizhou Province Liupanshui City, Zunyi City, Anshun City, Tongren, Bijie, Qianxinan Prefecture, Qiandongnan Prefecture, Qiannan Prefecture
Yunnan Province Qujing City, Yuxi City, Baoshan City, Zhaotong City, Pu'er City, Lincang City, Lijiang City, Wenshan
Precincts, Honghe Prefecture, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Chuxiong City, Dali City, Dehong Prefecture, Nujiang Prefecture, Diqing Prefecture
Tibet Lhasa, Nagchu Area Changdu，Shannan，Rikaze，Ali，Linzhi
Shanxi Province Tongchuan，Baoji，Hamyang，Weinan，Yanan，Hanzhong，Yulin，Ankang
,Shangluo
Gansu Province Jinchang，Baiyin，Tianshui，Jiayuguan Wuwei，Zhangye，Pingliang，Jiuquan
,Qingyang, Dingxi City, Longnan City, Gannan Prefecture, Linxia Prefecture
Qinghai Province Haidong, Haiyan, Haibei Prefecture, Huangnan Prefecture, Hainan Prefecture, Golog Prefecture, Yushu Prefecture, Haixi Prefecture
Ningxia Shizuishan City, Wuzhong City, Guyuan City, Zhongwei City
Xinjiang Keramayi City, Turpan, Hami, Hotan, Aksu, Kashgar, Korla, Changji City,
Yining City Tacheng