And what is the ranking of a province's prefecture-level administrative divisions based on? First of all, the principle is that provincial capitals rank first, prefecture-level cities rank second, regional administrative offices rank third, autonomous prefectures rank fourth, and finally county-level administrative units directly under the provincial government. For Jiangsu Province, there are only the first two items, and the ranking order of prefecture-level cities is actually arranged according to the time when the prefecture-level cities were finally established. 1 953 65438+1October1After the reconstruction of Jiangsu Province (the administrative regions of southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu were merged at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China), Wuxi has always been a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the province and has not changed, so it ranks second only to Nanjing, the provincial capital, in terms of administrative divisions; Xuzhou was also a provincial-level city in 1953, but it was later downgraded to the jurisdiction of Xuzhou regional administrative office, and it was restored in 1962, so Xuzhou ranked third; Changzhou was also promoted to a provincial-level city by 1962, so it ranked behind Xuzhou, an old prefecture-level city ... Zhenjiang has always been under the jurisdiction of Zhenjiang District Administrative Office, and it was not until 1983 that Zhenjiang District was abolished to establish a prefecture-level city, so it ranked very low. Taizhou and Suqian are both from Yangzhou in July 1996.
Other provinces, such as Jiangsu, are completely sorted by administrative divisions, such as Liaoning Province and Zhejiang Province. Some provinces are sorted by administrative divisions of 1992, but there were regional administrative offices at that time. Later, the order of administrative offices in various regions was changed, which led to a change in the ranking of administrative divisions, which did not correspond to the licensing authority code. Some provinces have made some changes on the basis of administrative division codes, such as Guangdong, Shenzhen and Zhuhai, which were originally ranked lower (prefecture-level cities established after the reform and opening up), but people used to rank Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai in the front, so Shenzhen and Zhuhai also used Guangdong B and Guangdong C codes. Jiangxi Province ranked the regional administrative office at that time in front of prefecture-level cities, so the Ganzhou area at that time (now Ganzhou City) ranked in Jiangxi B, and Jiujiang City ranked in Jiangxi G. Fujian Province is the most special province. According to the geographical location, introspection will start from Fuzhou, go south along the seaside, turn from Zhangzhou to western Fujian and then to northern Fujian, and turn in the province. So everyone thinks that Xiamen must be Fujian B, but it is actually Fujian D.