county-level city
English
Etymology
Calque of Chinese 縣級市／县级市 (xiànjíshì, literally “county-level city”)
Noun
county-level city (plural county-level cities)
- An administrative division of China immediately below the prefecture level.
- 2014, Li, Xinping (李欣凭), Modern Xinjiang (活力新疆), Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, OCLC 913453080, page 32:
- And there are six corps cities, Shihezi, Wujiaqu, Alar, Tumushuke, Beitun and Tiemenguan among 22 county-level cities.
- 2019 September 3, Min Zhang; Tom Daly, “China iron ore, steel futures rise on lenient output curbs”, in Sherry Jacob-Phillips, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 08 August 2022, Metals News:
- “Overall production curbs in Tangshan in September are on par with August, which are loose,” Huatai Futures said in a note, adding that output restrictions in Wuan, county-level city of the second-biggest steelmaking city of Handan, tightened slightly this month compared with August.
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See also
- prefecture-level city