County-level city, the name of the administrative division of the People's Republic of China, is a county-level administrative region with the same administrative status as a county-level city, which is referred to as "a city without districts" in the Constitution, and a county-level city is a local administrative unit established by a province or autonomous region; As a regional term, "county-level city" has been formally fixed since 1983. /kloc-since the 1980s, with the development of industrialization, the pace of urbanization in Chinese mainland has been rapid, and most of the "cities" have been established by withdrawing counties and setting up cities.
County-level cities refer to provincial cities with the same administrative status as counties and autonomous counties, and belong to county-level administrative units. Generally, it is managed by prefecture-level cities, or under regional jurisdiction, and some are directly managed by provinces and autonomous regions. Municipalities directly under the central government and prefecture-level cities cannot formally govern county-level cities, that is, they cannot "govern cities by cities".
There are two kinds of county-level cities, which can be upgraded by towns or reformed by counties. The former has a small area and is generally suitable for regions, while the latter has a large area. Since the 1960s, with the development of industrialization, most of the "cities" in China have been set up from counties.