In 1954, Liaodong Province and Liaoxi Province merged to form the new Liaoning Province. At the same time, Liaoning Province and neighboring Jilin Province divided jurisdictions, and Liaoning Province divided its 13 counties such as Linjiang, Baijiang, and Hailong, as well as 3 cities such as Siping and Tonghua, into Jilin Province. This time there is no land exchange, and Liaoning Province has not obtained land in Jilin Province. An important question arises, why are the 13 counties of Liaoning Province included in Jilin Province? In fact, this is the result of a holistic approach.
First, the northeast region once had no administrative divisions for a long time
In ancient Chinese history, the northeast region has been the territory of repeated tug-of-war between the Central Plains Dynasty and the nomadic regimes of the northern steppe. At the height of the Central Plains Dynasty, it was able to control the northeast region. However, after the decline of the Central Plains Dynasty, the steppe regime would reoccupy the northeast region. This situation continued from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and it was never fundamentally resolved. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, because the Qing Dynasty itself controlled the northeast region, it solved this old and difficult problem. But the qing dynasty's top brass was very unconfident in its rule and had always worried that it would not be able to control the vast Central Plains. In order to ensure the problems of the northeast region, the Qing Dynasty strictly forbade the people of the Central Plains to enter the northeast. Throughout the Central Plains, the Qing Dynasty followed the Ming Dynasty's provincial system and further refined it. However, in the northeast region, the Qing Dynasty left only three generals in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Shengjing. There were no detailed administrative divisions at all, no administrative officials, and the Qing Dynasty had very poor control over the northeast region. At the height of the dynasty, these issues were not important, but with the decline of the Qing Dynasty, Western powers began to invade the Qing Dynasty.
The situation in the northern part of the Qing Dynasty was critical, especially in Tsarist Russia and Japan, and the northeast region was looking at the tiger. In 1906, the Qing Dynasty divided the northeast into three provinces, namely Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province and Fengtian Province. Fengtian Province is now Liaoning Province, in 1928, after the victory of the Northern Expedition, Fengtian Province was renamed Liaoning Province. Since the Qing Dynasty divided the three northeastern provinces, the administrative divisions of the northeast region have been changing differently, and a series of changes have occurred. In 1928, after the end of the Northern Expedition, in order to defend the inland areas, the state successively established Rehe Province, Ningxia Province, Suiyuan Province and Chahar Province in the north. Among them, most of the province of Rehe belongs to the northeast, so Rehe province is also regarded as a northeastern province, and the saying of four northeastern provinces appeared at that time. In 1931, the Japanese army launched the September 18 Incident, occupying three provinces of Heijiliao in half a year. In 1933, rehe province was occupied. At this point, the Japanese army controlled the entire Northeast region.
Second, there were 14 provinces and 9 provinces in the northeast region
In order to consolidate its rule and reduce the continuity of the various regions, Japan supported a puppet regime in the Northeast and divided the Northeast into 14 provinces. At that time, the area of each province was not large, basically similar to that of the Qing Dynasty. However, this management method did not alleviate the resistance in various regions, and many anti-Japanese armed forces were active in the White Mountains and Black Water. By 1945, after Japan's defeat and surrender, the state abolished some provinces, but there were still 9 provinces. In the past few years, there have been 9 northeastern provinces. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the northeast region was divided into 6 provinces, namely: Heilongjiang Province, Songjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaodong Province, Liaoxi Province and Rehe Province. This division of provinces was only temporary, and at that time, similar situations occurred throughout the country, such as Plain Province, Northern Anhui and Southern Anhui Provinces, and so on. By the early 1950s, with the problems of the situation in all its aspects, our country began a new round of regional integration.
Regional integration in 1954 was the largest regional integration operation in China, involving many provinces. In this year, Songjiang Province and Heilongjiang Province were merged into the new Heilongjiang Province, and Liaodong Province and Liaoxi Province were merged to form the new Liaoning Province. At that time, there was a situation in which Liaoning Province was on the larger side and Jilin Province was on the small side. Moreover, many factories are concentrated in Liaoning Province, which is not conducive to the overall development of the northeast region. In the same year, Liaoning Province included 13 counties, including Tonghua City, Siping City, Liaoyuan City, Shuangliao County, Lishu County, Changbai County, and Dongfeng County, which greatly strengthened the overall strength of Jilin Province. After the consolidation of the 1950s, the administrative divisions of the Tohoku region basically formed the current contours. Although in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a problem with the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the regional division of the three northeastern provinces was basically stable. By 1979, after the jurisdiction of the western region was returned to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the issue of the division of the three northeastern provinces was completely stabilized.