How many administrative divisions are there in China?

The Constitution stipulates that China is divided into four levels: central, provincial, county and township, but it is actually five levels.

The State Council (Central People's Government), provincial governments (at the same level: municipalities directly under the Central Government and ethnic autonomous local governments), regional and municipal governments (at the same level: regional administrative offices and prefectures), county governments (at the same level: county-level municipal governments and county-level district governments) and township governments (at the same level: town governments).

Since 1949, the national administrative divisions have changed many times. At present, there are 34 provincial administrative regions in People's Republic of China (PRC), including 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities directly under the Central Government and 2 special administrative regions.

China is divided into 23 provinces, 4 municipalities, 5 autonomous regions and 2 special administrative regions.

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The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee proposed to optimize the setting of administrative divisions, improve the comprehensive carrying capacity of central cities and urban agglomerations and optimize the allocation of resources, implement flat management and form an efficient organizational system.

Outside the provincial capital 150km, with a large area (more than 30,000km2) and a large population (100000 or more/a central city with a population of more than 3 million), new central cities should be cultivated, upgraded to sub-provincial cities, and new provincial administrative regions with central cities as their capitals should be established in due course;

At the same time, the transportation trunk line with the new provincial capital as the hub (especially the Mi-shaped high-speed rail hub) and the comprehensive research university directly under the Ministry of Education will be built to realize the balanced and reasonable layout of cities across the country and strengthen the important node cities in the national urban system.

Fundamentally prevent the population of the whole country from gathering only in the existing provincial capitals or municipalities directly under the Central Government, so that the big city disease and the big city group disease become more and more serious (the distance between the central cities in the urban agglomeration is more than 200 kilometers, so as to better avoid the urban agglomeration disease).

At the same time, a large number of marginalized areas are getting poorer and poorer, and the contradictions are becoming more and more fierce (rational layout and construction of important node metropolitan areas, so that the distance between metropolitan areas does not exceed 400 kilometers, is the best choice to prevent marginalization, poverty and risks). Among them, Xuzhou, Ganzhou, Yichang, Yibin and Guilin are all ideal cities to cultivate the central cities of important node metropolitan areas.