2. County-level cities are counties that have been urbanized to a certain extent, and now they are basically not worthy of the name. Now the state has frozen all county-level cities, and there is no specific standard.
3. Compared with counties, county-level cities have greater social and economic management authority, and the supporting fees and planning scale of urban construction are tilted, but they are far from preferential. In terms of power, county-level cities and counties are basically managed by prefecture-level cities and are restricted by prefecture-level cities. Compared with county and city, the advantage is that the leaders call it nice. At present, with the rise of counties directly under the jurisdiction of the province, some county-level cities and counties are directly under the jurisdiction of the province, such as Qianjiang City, Xiantao City, Hubei Province and Jiyuan City, Henan Province.
4. There are several situations in the county reform area.
1), the county-level reform area of the municipality directly under the central government, because the district level of the municipality directly under the central government is half a level higher than that of the county (deputy department level)
2) In economically developed areas, county-level cities bordering or integrated with prefecture-level cities have been removed from counties and districts, such as Wujin in Changzhou, now Wujin District in Changzhou, Xishan in Wuxi, now Xishan District in Wuxi and Xiaoshan in Hangzhou, now Xiaoshan District in Hangzhou. In this case, most prefecture-level cities eventually annexed county-level cities for their own consideration.
3) The county-level cities where the former regional administrative office was located were mainly in the wave of land reform. For example, Fuyang City, the county-level resident in Fuyang area, was revoked and divided into several districts such as Yingzhou District. jin an district and Yu 'an District, the resident counties of Lu 'an Administrative Office, were established after the revocation.
Finally, generally speaking, the levels of counties and districts under the jurisdiction of county-level cities and prefecture-level cities are basically county-level, but some local leaders are well matched. Perhaps this county-level city is county-level, but the secretary of the municipal party Committee is the CPC, and the county-level city has the greatest authority and the smallest district. Please refer to the Articles of Association and the website of the Geographical Names Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for specific legal basis. It's a mess. It's hard to sort it out.