Because the standing Committee of the municipal party Committee and the director of the public security bureau of the provincial capital and prefecture-level cities are all CPC departments, and they do not concurrently hold the position at the level.

Ganzhou, originally a prefecture-level city in Jiangxi Province, is neither a municipality directly under the Central Government nor a municipality directly under the Central Government. There are only four municipalities directly under the Central Government in China, namely, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing.