What is the practical significance of changing the name of "county" to "city" (still at the county level)?

County-to-city reform was popular all over the country in the 1980s and 1990s, but it was cooled down due to the comprehensive control of the state until it was completely closed. It was not until 20 17 that the ban was lifted because of urbanization. However, the central control is relatively tight. Although many counties want to change cities, in fact, they rarely achieve their goals, only a few each year.

There are three main reasons why so many counties want to change their cities:

First, after the county is changed to the city, it will have greater autonomy. Counties (county-level cities) implement the provincial management mode, which is managed by the city. Relatively independent in personnel, finance and planning, with certain autonomy. This is the biggest difference between a county (county-level city) and a district. However, compared with counties, county-level cities have greater autonomy and higher conditions. When a county is transformed into a city, it is not allowed to be "upgraded" to a county-level city until the non-agricultural population, total industrial output value, total production value and fiscal revenue have reached certain goals and the focus has shifted from agriculture to industry and to the tertiary industry. After upgrading, county-level cities enjoy greater decision-making power in urban planning, land use indicators, policy formulation and other economic and social management, which is more conducive to urban development. As a city with separate plans to manage the city catalogue, it can be said that it has greater power to some extent.

Second, the county has greater economic rights after changing the city. For example, in terms of taxation, you can increase the percentage of city maintenance construction tax and enjoy more retention benefits; Financially, there can be more transfer payments and special support, and so on. Changing a county into a city is equivalent to getting rich.

Third, there is a greater development prospect after the county is changed to the city. This is mainly aimed at the leaders of county-level cities. Those who can change a county into a city are generally strong in local economic strength. Therefore, as long as they are in charge of county-level cities, as long as they are slow and steady, there is a high probability of promotion. Many county-level city secretaries, even senior deputy halls, are held by the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, deputy mayors or representatives of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and their weight has always been great. This is the treatment that ordinary counties can't enjoy, and it is also the reason why many county officials insist on changing markets.

I'm not knowledgeable and I can't speak well. Don't laugh.

In my opinion, it makes no sense for ordinary people to change a county into a county-level city. The benefits that ordinary people can see are probably those who make plaques, carve official seals and open printing houses, and can earn direct benefits from changing counties into county-level cities. Others, nothing.

Even so, why are many counties keen to change counties into county-level cities?

You just need to see who is pushing it. Ordinary people who did not upgrade the county to a county-level city. All leaders. We have never been leaders, and it is not clear what benefits leaders can get from it. But one thing is clear: the county is changed into a county-level city, the county magistrate is called the mayor, and the county party secretary is called the secretary of the municipal party Committee. Although the level is still at the county level, it is intact. But it sounds comfortable and the name is much better!

What are the advantages of changing the county to the city? Why is everyone so sought after?

In China, "city" is a very puzzling administrative level. Some mayors are equal to or even higher than governors, such as Beijing and Shanghai. Some cities are equivalent to states, leagues and regions. Most of these things are not listed. The smallest cities are county-level cities, and basically there are more than a dozen in each province.

At present, there are 684 cities in China, including 4 municipalities, 293 prefecture-level cities and 386 county-level cities.

At the same time, China also has a title called "City with Districts", which is a special existence of prefecture-level cities. There are two kinds of atmosphere in prefecture-level cities. One is that most of them are "cities divided into districts" with certain local legislative power, with 289 in China. The other is that there are only four "through train cities", namely Dongguan City, Zhongshan City, Jiayuguan City and Danzhou City, Hainan Province. These "through train cities" are prefecture-level cities in administrative level, but they are basically equivalent to county-level cities in administrative division. It is transformed from the most developed county-level city, with more power than the county-level city, but still less than the prefecture-level city.

Even in prefecture-level cities, there are some prefecture-level cities with unusual status.

For example, among the 293 prefecture-level cities in China, there are 15 sub-provincial cities, namely Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Dalian, Jinan, Qingdao, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wuhan, Xi 'an and Chengdu. Some of these sub-provincial cities are provincial capitals, and some are not provincial capitals but sub-centers of a province. Both are cities with fairly strong economic strength.

Therefore, if we compare the cities in our country, it is divided as follows:

Municipalities directly under the central government > sub-provincial cities > cities divided into districts > prefecture-level cities > through cities > county-level cities

Obviously, the city with the lowest level is a county-level city. On the surface, this is a city, but in fact it is a county.

Most county-level cities are reformed from counties, and a few are cities from the beginning. For example, Sansha City, the southernmost city in China, originally had Xisha District and Nansha District, which governed 10 communities, with a permanent population of more than 2,500 and a registered population of 448. The population of a village built a city, which is the most powerful city in China.

Since 1980, counties with similar domestic economies have tried their best to transform into cities. From county to city, there are at least three advantages:

1, pay more attention to urban construction and attract investment, and the economic development will reach a new level. The original county, on the other hand, focuses on agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and often goes to the countryside to help the poor.

2, the authority is greater, for example, county-level cities have more approval and autonomy, urban infrastructure construction is more free, and it is more favorable to strive for higher funding.

3, the county to the city, itself is a local advertisement in the national media, this intangible asset will become tangible results, which is very beneficial to future promotion.

However, some counties have not been successfully changed into cities, but into districts and municipal districts.

Once it becomes a municipal district and the county magistrate becomes a district head, the authority is even lower. But it may also develop into a built-up area of prefecture-level cities, but it will usher in greater economic development.

Generally speaking, both the county reform area and the city are the result of interest game. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.

If the county is changed into a district, it means the expansion of the city, the acceleration of urbanization, regional integration and the emergence of central cities;

If the county is changed to the city, it means that local power is expanded and new growth poles are formed.

In principle, county-level cities are still under the jurisdiction of prefecture-level cities, unless they are explicitly under the jurisdiction of provincial governments. In fact, it is not necessarily directly managed by the province, because it is not managed at all. For example, county courts must have intermediate courts, and banks, electric power, military regions, etc. cannot land. There are only a few county-level cities directly under the provincial government, and there are fewer and fewer. Many county-level cities directly under the provincial government have been recovered, and they will definitely be prefecture-level cities and county-level cities in the future. With the development of communication and transportation and the application of big data, administrative divisions will become larger and larger, and the layout of industry, agriculture, culture, education and health will become more and more reasonable, effectively reducing unnecessary administrative investment and personnel and concentrating on construction. Then why change the county into a city? The transformation from county to city has proved that several indicators, such as the proportion of industrial production, the proportion of non-agricultural population driven by commercialization and industrialization, and fiscal revenue have certain ability to maintain municipal construction.

(1) Very nice. If you don't change it, the address of a product can only be marked as * * county and changed to city, which invisibly improves the grade of the product and helps to eliminate sales. The young man has an advantage in finding an object in the city than in the county. He can confidently say, I work in the city and live in the city.

(2) It is conducive to attracting investment and attracting talents.

(3) We can focus on the development of industry and commerce. In this sense, it will still play a positive role in economic development.

(D) In municipal construction, there are differences between financial allocation and residents' treatment. The salary of civil servants is higher than that of county towns. As for the workers and peasants in villages and towns, there is no difference.

(5) Carve the official seal and make a plaque to give the vehicle a chance to make money. Internationally, today's cities and towns are different from those in the traditional sense. It's just an administrative system. A small county-level city, surrounded by rural areas, is not essentially different from the county seat. The towns before 70' s are the real towns. In the past, the city was set up as a county, but the original county still exists, the city is still a city, there is no countryside, the county is still a county, and there are few urban areas. In the past, when the economy was underdeveloped, there were only one or two county-level cities in a province, such as Liaoyuan City in Jilin Province, which used to be the county seat of dongliao county. Because of coal mines, county towns have been zoned as cities, but dongliao county is still preserved, because there are only two or three counties and cities in a province, so there is no problem. Now county-level cities are blooming everywhere. If the same county and city are retained, county-level units will explode. In order to reduce financial expenditure, we have to use this nondescript administrative system, in fact, just change the brand, so that we will not have the glory of the past market.

The voice of the county magistrate is not as loud as that of the duke, which I have always understood.

Honestly, it's meaningless. First of all, it's embarrassing to mention it. It sounds awkward in a province or a city. It seems that Lao Zi and his son are colleagues. Then it doesn't make any sense at the level, whether it's a county-level city or county, a mayor or a county magistrate. Finally, the issue of material benefits. The help it gets has nothing to do with whether it is called a city or not, but a measure of the importance of your local development by your superiors.

Personally, if you want to express the theme of the city, you can get rid of the county-level establishment and rename the prefecture-level city as a special zone (this is the previous name) to avoid the embarrassing phenomenon of two consecutive city names and become a "special zone of a province".

If netizens are willing to listen to the truth and listen to the truth, then I can clearly answer: changing the county to the city has no practical significance.

Because the city level has not changed (county level), the people's living conditions in all aspects have not changed, and the cadre level has not changed (county-level city party secretary and mayor are still at the level. Only a few party secretaries with developed economy, large population and large area can enjoy the treatment of prefecture-level cities and sub-cities if they are promoted to the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee at the same time. )

The establishment of a city (county level) from a county is nothing more than a good reputation, because in people's traditional concept, the county represents the countryside and the city represents the city. Moreover, municipalities directly under the central government, provincial capitals, sub-provincial cities, prefecture-level cities and county-level cities are all called "cities", which makes foreigners or outsiders who don't know the inside story very confused. It is said that this is conducive to attracting foreign investment. It seems that the success of "setting up the city" is also a political achievement. Ordinary people don't care, how is life?

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In fact, all provinces, cities, counties and townships are quite good. These years just want to change the county to the city. After the reform, the result is still a county-level city. Isn't it a matter of time? It's like taking off your pants and putting "that", which is a waste of time.

A city is a city. A county is a county. Can't be confused. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is greedy for foreign countries, and vanity is strange. We must listen to the good reputation of "City". Even if your name is "county" and you are a city, you can build tall buildings in the city and live a happy life. Why do you have to change your name?

What's your name? It's all "established". It's neither painful nor itchy. But the problem is that the names are repeated, it is difficult to distinguish, and it is easy to confuse true and false. Small cities are full of big cities. Below the province is the city, and below the city is the county. Now you call it a city. Do you think it will be messy? For example, it turned out to be Jilin Province, Changchun City, Dehui County and Dajiagou Township. Now it is called "Dajiagou Township, dehui city, Changchun City, Jilin Province". Locals can also understand what outsiders are at a loss. What city is it?

What is more troublesome is the new development zones in various places. The development zone has its own independent institutions, but it overlaps with the cities and counties where it is located. I don't know. I can't see who cares about who.

Such as statistics, who includes who? It is not clear whether the location is included. Does its county or city still care?

For example, in Changchun City, at the beginning of the epidemic, statistics and development zones were listed separately, but later they disappeared and may have been included in the region. That's weird. Is it difficult for the development zone to be under the jurisdiction of the region? Isn't there a "health and health commission" in the development zone?

From the perspective of ordinary people, it doesn't make much sense to change a county into a city, it's just a euphemism! Nothing more than changing a few official seals. When writing, change the name of the county magistrate to the name of the mayor, and the county party secretary to the secretary of the municipal party Committee. In fact, it is still a county under its jurisdiction! Small changes may be a waste of people and money, and many things have to be changed, and many institutions have to change their brands and names.

There is nothing wrong with people living in the lower floors changing the county into a city, but the address is difficult to adapt at the moment, and there is no obvious change in other aspects!