Townships of the People's Republic of China
| formally Township level divisions | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 乡级行政区 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄉級行政區 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 乡 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鄉 | ||||||
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Template:Administrative levels and divisions of the People's Republic of China sidebar Townships (simplified Chinese: 乡; pinyin: Xiāng) formally township level divisions (simplified Chinese: 乡级行政区) is the basic level (fourth-level administrative units) of political divisions in China. They are similar to municipalities and communes in other countries and in turn may contain village committees and villages. In 1995 there were 29,502 townships and 17,532 towns (a total of 47,034 township-level divisions) in China.[1]
People's Republic of China
In the PRC's dual governance system, the township's governance is divided between the Communist Party Township Secretary, and the Mayor (乡长). A township official is the lowest-level ranked official in the CPC government hierarchy. The township has very few defined government responsibilities, except for the Birth Planning Commission (计划生育委员会).
A town (镇; pinyin: zhèn) is larger, often more populous, and less remote than a township.
List of townships level divisions
- Provinces
- List of township-level divisions of Anhui
- List of township-level divisions of Fujian
- List of township-level divisions of Gansu
- List of township-level divisions of Guangdong
- List of township-level divisions of Guizhou
- List of township-level divisions of Hainan
- List of township-level divisions of Hebei
- List of township-level divisions of Heilongjiang
- List of township-level divisions of Henan
- List of township-level divisions of Hubei
- List of township-level divisions of Hunan
- List of township-level divisions of Jiangsu
- List of township-level divisions of Jiangxi
- List of township-level divisions of Jilin
- List of township-level divisions of Liaoning
- List of township-level divisions of Qinghai
- List of township-level divisions of Shaanxi
- List of township-level divisions of Shandong
- List of township-level divisions of Shanxi
- List of township-level divisions of Sichuan
- List of township-level divisions of Yunnan
- List of township-level divisions of Zhejiang
- Autonomous areas
- List of township-level divisions of Guangxi
- List of township-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
- List of township-level divisions of Ningxia
- List of township-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region
- List of township-level divisions of Xinjiang
- Municipalities
- List of township-level divisions of Beijing
- List of township-level divisions of Chongqing
- List of township-level divisions of Shanghai
- List of township-level divisions of Tianjin
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