Sub-prefecture-level city

This article is part of the series: Administrative divisions of China

Provincial level Municipalities (直辖市; zhíxiáshì) Provinces (省; shěng) Autonomous regions (自治区; zìzhìqū) Special administrative regions (特别行政区; tèbié xíngzhèngqū)

Sub-provincial level Sub-provincial cities (副省级市; fùshěngjí shì) Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures (副省级自治州; fùshěngjí zìzhìzhōu) Sub-provincial city districts (副省级市辖区; fùshěngjí shìxiáqū)

Prefectural level Prefectures (地区; dìqū) Prefecture-level cities (地级市; dìjíshì) Autonomous prefectures (自治州; zīzhìzhōu) Leagues (盟; méng)

Sub-prefecture-level Sub-prefectural cities (副地级市; fùdìjíshì)

County level Counties (县; xiàn) Autonomous counties (自治县; zìzhìxiàn) County-level cities (县级市; xiànjíshì) City districts (市辖区; shìxiáqū) Ethnic districts Banners (旗; qí) Autonomous banners (自治旗; zìzhìqí) Forestry areas (林区; línqū) Special districts (特区; tèqū)

Township level Townships (乡; xiāng) Ethnic townships (民族乡; mínzúxiāng) Towns (镇; zhèn) Subdistricts (街道办事处; jiēdào bànshìchù) Sumus (苏木; sūmù) Ethnic sumus (民族苏木; mínzúsūmù) District public offices (abolishing) (区公所; qū gōngsuǒ)

Village level Village Committees (村民委员会; cūnmín-wěiyuánhùi) Neighborhood Committees (居民委员会; jūmín-wěiyuánhùi)

History of the political divisions of China

A sub-prefecture-level city (Chinese: 副地级市, pinyin: fùdìjíshì), or vice-prefecture-level city, is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China. A sub-prefecture-level 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-prefecture-level cities are often administered directly by the provincial government, with no intervening prefecture level administration.

Examples of sub-prefecture-level cities include Jiyuan (Henan province), Xiantao, Qianjiang and Tianmen (Hubei), Golmud^{[citation needed]} (Qinghai), Manzhouli (Inner Mongolia), Shihanza, Tumushuk, Aral, and Wujiaqu (Xinjiang).