2022 has entered the fourth quarter, and so far there has been no public report on administrative division adjustments at or above the county level, which is rare compared to previous years.
Netizens are also very worried about this and want to know why.
In response to some netizens' consultation on the latest progress in the local abolishment of counties and districts, the general duty room of Jiujiang City Government of Jiangxi Province recently revealed the reason in the reply to the People's Daily Leadership Message Board.
is of great importance. The original sentence quotes here -
According to the spirit of the "Government Work Report" of the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress on March 5, 2022 and the 26th Session of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Deepening Reform on June 22, 2022, new policies for the adjustment of administrative divisions at the national level are currently being formulated. After the new policies at the national level are introduced, the work of optimizing urban administrative divisions will be carried out in a timely manner.
This is the public news that the official has made it clear for the first time that a new policy for the adjustment of administrative divisions at the national level is being formulated.
There is no doubt that administrative division adjustments will usher in a major turning point.
What does this mean? According to public information, it will not be easier to abolish counties and establish districts (cities) in the future, but will be more difficult.
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Three important meetings
From the reply from the general duty room of Jiujiang Municipal Government, it can be seen that the reason why the national level formulated new administrative division policies is closely related to the three important meetings held since the end of last year.
First, the Central Economic Work Conference in December 2021. There is a saying in the official conference communiqué: to improve the quality of new urbanization construction .
Second, the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress on March 5, 2022.
The Government Work Report has a clear explanation of "improving the quality of new urbanization construction":
improves the quality of new urbanization . Promote the urban renewal of in an orderly manner, strengthen the construction of municipal facilities and disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities, carry out investigation and rectification of safety hazards of old buildings and facilities, and start the renovation of a number of old urban communities, support the installation of elevators and other facilities, and promote the construction of barrier-free environments and the transformation of public facilities for the age-friendly transformation. Improve the system of providing basic public services in permanent residence. Strengthen the construction of county-level infrastructure. Steadily promote the construction of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, and promote the coordinated development of large, medium and small cities and towns. Promote the construction of Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle . Strictly control the abolition of counties, cities and districts. Do a good job in protecting and inheriting historical and cultural heritage in urban and rural planning and construction, and save and intensive land use. We must deepen the new urbanization with people as the core and continuously improve people's quality of life.
"Strictly control the abolition of counties and cities to build districts" is listed as one of the important contents to improve the quality of new urbanization, and "strict control" has become a clear tone, rather than the previous "cautious and strict".
Third, the 26th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform on June 22, 2022. The press release of the
meeting mentioned that it is necessary to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over administrative division work, make overall planning, and avoid blind disorder.
The meeting reviewed and passed the "Opinions on Strengthening and Reforming Administrative Division Work", which established a "action guide" and "fundamental guidelines" for my country's future administrative division reform and adjustment -
◆ It is necessary to strengthen the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over administrative division work, and major reforms, important policies and major adjustments to administrative divisions shall be studied and decided by the Party Central Committee.
◆We must strengthen strategic, systematic and forward-looking research, organize research and formulate ideas for overall administrative division planning, improve the scientificity, standardization and effectiveness of administrative division setting, and ensure that administrative division setting and adjustment are in line with the needs of national development strategies, economic and social development, and national defense construction.
◆We must place the inheritance and protection of historical and cultural heritage and protection in a more important position, conduct in-depth research on the historical experience of my country's administrative division setting, treat administrative division name change steadily and cautiously, and do not change old place names at will.
◆We must adhere to the overall stability of administrative divisions, and ensure that non-essential irregularities, inaccurate obstacles, and unchangeable conditions when the time is immature.
◆It is necessary to improve the standard system for administrative division adjustment, strengthen the coordination and connection between administrative divisions and relevant policies, plans and standards, and strengthen administrative division management in accordance with the law.
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Who is increasing, who is decreasing
makes overall planning to avoid blind disorder.
This is the key to future administrative division adjustments and the top priority.
Looking back, Since the founding of New China, it has undergone many adjustments to the national administrative divisions. The administrative hierarchy has generally experienced such a change process:
Before 1952, it was mainly the four-level system of " major administrative regions -provincial-county-town";
1967-1978, it was mainly the four-level system of "provincial-region-county-people's commune";
20200s after the full implementation of the municipal leadership county system in the 1980s, it was mainly the four-level system of "provincial-prefecture-county-town".
In this process, administrative divisions such as "big administrative regions" and "people's commune" disappeared one after another. Since the reform and opening up of , administrative division adjustments have been mainly concentrated at the local, county and township levels, among which the local and county levels are most concerned by the outside world.
Administrative division adjustments at or above the county level include various ways of upgrading or demotion, merger or splitting, establishment or revocation of administrative regions. Overall -
Prefecture-level level: With the advancement of the abolition of prefecture-level cities, the number of "regions" has decreased, while the number of "prefecture-level cities" is increasing.
County level: "County" has decreased, and the city's jurisdiction has increased. County-level cities are a bit special. They increase first and then decrease, and have not yet returned to the highest historical value.
County-level city, I want to say a few more words.
In the early days of reform and opening up, county-level cities were also called prefecture-level cities. It was not until 1983 that the Ministry of Civil Affairs clarified the concept of "county-level cities" and formulated corresponding setting standards. It then increased all the way, reaching a peak of 445 in 1996. However, due to many blindly abolishing counties and establishing cities, many places had serious problems with "false urbanization". In 1997, the state completely frozen the work of abolishing counties and establishing cities, and until it restarted again in 2017, and has not yet recovered to the highest number in history.
Why is the number of county-level cities still decreasing during the freezing of counties and cities? In fact, there were still a few successful cases of county-level cities from 1997 to 2017, but at the same time, more county-level cities were abolished and districts in , including the fact that some former county-level cities were simultaneously abolished and districts in the city. For example:
In 2000, Yulin was abolished and established a city, and the original county-level Yulin City was changed to Yuyang District;
2000, Ankang was abolished and established a city, and the original county-level Ankang City was changed to Hanbin District ;
2001, Shangluo was abolished and established a city, and the original county-level shangzhou city was renamed Shangzhou District .
The official website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs provides detailed administrative division data since 1998, so let’s take a look.
Overall, in the past 23 years, the number of "regions" has decreased by 59, and currently only 7 are left (5 in Xinjiang, 1 in Tibet and Heilongjiang each), while the number of prefecture-level cities has increased by 74; the number of "counties" has decreased by 204, the number of "county-level cities" has decreased by 49, and the number of "municipal districts" has increased by 236, with an average of 10 new cases per year.
Further look at it, since 1998, prefecture-level cities have increased or zero new each year, and only once in 2018, due to the merger of Laiwu City into Jinan. The increase in the municipal districts has experienced two climaxes, one before 2004 and the other after 2011.
The change trajectory of the number of county-level cities is consistent with the national policy of abolishing counties and establishing cities. 2017 happened to be a turning point.
So, after various adjustments, how many administrative regions at all levels in the country are there? The latest data released by the official website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs as of the end of 2020 is as follows:
Let’s talk about Shaanxi by the way. Up to now, Shaanxi has 10 "cities", 7 "county-level cities", 31 "municipal districts" and 69 "counties". Like most provinces, the "region" is zero.
It should be noted that in the "Administrative Division" column of the official website of Shaanxi Provincial Government , Yangling District is in Xianyang City .
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Wind direction has changed
From south to north, from east to west. In recent years, the abolition of counties and districts (cities) has been showing an increasing trend.
From the perspective of regional perspective, the most "removed" are the eastern coastal provinces and cities. Cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xiamen , Qingdao , Haikou have become "no counties and cities".At present, there is still a long queue list for "abolishing counties and establishing districts" in various provinces, and "abolishing counties and establishing districts (cities)" has appeared in the "14th Five-Year Plan" in some places.
Although the reasons and statements for the adjustment of the regions are different, they basically mention "making the central city bigger and stronger, expanding urban development space", "improving the quality of county economy", and "improving the level of urbanization", but from practice, there is still a phenomenon of blindness and "withdrawal", which runs contrary to the construction of new urbanization.
So, there is "strict control"!
In August this year, in response to the suggestions of optimizing Sichuan's administrative divisions through the merger of prefectures and cities, Sichuan Provincial Department of Civil Affairs clearly replied that the relevant suggestions "involve a wide range and are major adjustments to administrative divisions. According to the relevant requirements of 'major reforms, important policies and major adjustments to administrative divisions, the Party Central Committee needs to conduct top-level design and research decisions."
Bailijun believes that the Sichuan Provincial Department of Civil Affairs has actually explained and explained the "major adjustments to administrative divisions".
can be foreseen that under the background of "making overall planning and avoiding blind disorder", the requirements will only become stricter and the standards will only become higher and higher. In a word, the direction of "abolition of counties" is indeed changing!
has not yet successfully achieved the goal of "abolition of counties", which may be able to explain the problem.
Source: "Babaili" WeChat official account
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