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Municipalities directly under the Central Government (four: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing)

Cities with separate plans (five cities: Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Xiamen and Shenzhen) enjoy provincial-level economic management authority, and the State Council and the national ministries and commissions give cities with separate plans provincial-level units.

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sub-provincial city

(At present, there are 15 * *: Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Jinan, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Xi 'an, Dalian, Qingdao, Ningbo, Xiamen and Shenzhen).

The secretary of the municipal party committee, the director of the Municipal People's Congress, the mayor and the chairman of the CPPCC in sub-provincial cities are all deputy ministerial level, and the deputy is the main department level; Municipal districts and municipal departments are deputy departments, while municipal departments, streets, towns and municipal departments are official departments.

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There are 333 prefecture-level cities (including ordinary provincial capitals and prefecture-level cities).

Among them, the provincial capital is prefecture-level city (director level): 17 (ordinary provincial capital city, ordinary autonomous region capital city: Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Nanchang, Taiyuan, Urumqi, Hohhot, Changsha, Guiyang, Kunming, Xining, Lanzhou, Yinchuan, Nanning, Fuzhou, Lhasa, Haikou and Hefei). Only the secretary of the municipal party committee has been appointed as the deputy provincial level in such cities.