Why can't prefecture-level cities be abolished? History has already told us how embarrassing it is to implement the provincial and county secondary system! One view is that administrative divisions are necessary to redivise, one is conducive to the decentralization of rights, and the other is to truly streamline the institutions.
Cities
At present, there are 336 prefecture-level cities in the country, and almost all of the prefecture-level cities are idle people who do not do anything at all, on the contrary, sometimes it is simply a stumbling block, and it is best to directly manage the counties.
Let's do a calculation, each of the 336 prefecture-level cities, each prefecture-level city has a total of 5 sets of team institutions, as well as the major bureaus that duplicate the county level, how many idle people are currently raised in the country? Don't be unaware, a calculation will scare you a big jump...
I do not agree with this view, the provincial directly administered counties look beautiful in theory, but according to China's population, land area and the number of government affairs, it is impossible to achieve a two-level system. There is always a need for a three-level system, one level is responsible to the central government, one level is facing the grass-roots level, and the other level must be located between the first two, which is the so-called "unified county political district".
Therefore, during the Beiyang government period, although the abolition of fucun county forced the provincial and county two-level system, the result could not be managed, and "Dao" was immediately set up as a second-level administrative region. After the fall of Beiyang, the National Government in Nanjing did not believe in heresy, continued to listen to the theory of civil science, abolished the Tao, and directly implemented the provincial and county two-level system.
It turned out that there were too many counties in the country, and a province had to manage hundreds of counties, which really couldn't be managed, so later a "administrative supervision district" between the provinces and counties was developed (that is, relying on the strong counties in the region, the strong towns as the commissioner's residence, and the counties in the integration area as an administrative unit to manage).
Not only are the names more ugly, but there are more than the dao, but in fact, the three-level system has been restored in disguise, and the three-level system of province-capital/state-county has returned.
Why can't prefecture-level cities be abolished? History has already told us how embarrassing it is to implement the provincial and county secondary system! After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we also continued to adhere to the direct administration of provinces and counties, but found that it was really impossible to manage, so we set up a "special district" (later called the regional administrative office), which eventually evolved into the current prefecture-level city.
Do you disagree with the above point of view?