Sub-prefectural city

{{Short description|People's Republic of China subprefecture-level subdivision}} {{Multiple issues| {{More citations needed|date=May 2014}} {{Unreferenced|date=April 2026}} }} {{Administrative levels and divisions of China sidebar}}

A '''sub-prefectural municipality''' ({{Zh|s=副地级市 |t=副地級市 |p=fùdìjíshì}}), '''sub-prefectural city''', or '''vice-prefectural municipality''', is an unofficial designation for a type of administrative division of China. A sub-prefectural city is officially considered to be a county-level city, but it has more power ''de facto'' because the cadres assigned to its government are one half-level higher in rank than those of an "ordinary" county-level city—though still lower than those of a prefecture-level city.

While county-level cities are under the administrative jurisdiction of prefecture-level divisions, sub-prefectural cities are often (but not always) administered directly by the provincial government, with no intervening prefecture level administration.

Examples of sub-prefectural cities that does not belong to any prefecture: Jiyuan (Henan Province), Xiantao, Qianjiang and Tianmen (Hubei), Shihezi, Tumxuk, Aral, and Wujiaqu (Xinjiang).

Examples of sub-prefectural cities that nevertheless belong to a prefecture: Golmud (Haixi, Qinghai), Manzhouli (Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia).{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}

==List of sub-prefectural divisions== :Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> '''Bold''' not under any prefecture-level subordination.

===Guangdong=== * Gaozhou * Lufeng * Luoding * Nanxiong * Puning * Yangchun * Yingde

===Guizhou=== * Renhuai

===Hainan=== * '''Dongfang''' * '''Qionghai''' * '''Wanning''' * '''Wenchang''' * '''Wuzhishan'''

===Hebei=== * Dingzhou * Qian'an * Xinji

===Heilongjiang=== * Suifenhe

===Henan=== * Dengzhou * Gongyi * '''Jiyuan''' * Ruzhou * Yongcheng

===Hubei=== * '''Qianjiang''' * '''Tianmen''' * '''Xiantao'''

===Hunan=== * Shaoshan

===Inner Mongolia=== * Erenhot * Manzhouli

===Jiangsu=== * Kunshan * Taixing

===Jiangxi=== * Fengcheng * Gongqingcheng * Ruijin

===Jilin=== * Gongzhuling * Meihekou

===Qinghai=== * Golmud

===Shaanxi=== * Hancheng

===Xinjiang=== :Note<nowiki>:</nowiki> all cities are also under the subordination of the Prefecture-level Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC or Bingtuan). * '''Aral''' * '''Baiyang''' * '''Beitun''' * '''Huyanghe''' * '''Kokdala''' * '''Kunyu''' * '''Shihezi''' * '''Shuanghe''' * '''Tiemenguan''' * '''Tumxuk''' * '''Wujiaqu''' * '''Xinxing'''

===Zhejiang=== * Yiwu

==References== {{reflist}}

*Sub Category:County-level divisions of China