Research On The Grading Of County Level Administrative Regions

The grading of county-level administrative regions is one of important system arrangements in the field of public administration in Chinese history. This institution lasted from the Qin Dynasty to 1959 even after the foundation of the New China. Our history witnessed its important function exerted in such fields as organization establishment, personnel management and, public policy making and implementation. Although grading of county-level administrative regions was broken off in 1959, this system still has important practical significance even now. Nowadays, grading of county level administrative regions is beneficial to optimizing our country's administrative division level, beneficial to deepening the reform of the administrative system, beneficial to making and implementing public policy in a manner appropriate to local conditions. In the long history of more than two thousand years, the grading of county-level administrative regions embodies certain regularity to some extent, although in each period the administrative division of county was classified according to different bases, standards and grade quantity choices. Summing-up conditions about the grading of county level administrative regions in history is not only beneficial to enriching the theories of administrative division and administration, but also beneficial to providing an enlightenment for the current grading of the county level administrative regions. The current grading of the county level administrative regions ought to follow certain principle, work out the basis and grade for classifying rationally and scientifically , put into effect according to plan and step by step, supporting work for grading is needed at the same time.First, the paper summarize situations about the grading of the county level administrative regions which has a history of more than 2000 years in each period from the Qin Dynasty to the New China, and analyze its historical function and historical significance. Second, the paper analyze the necessity of the grading of the county level administrative region in our country nowadays, including problems existed without grading of the county level administrative region and the significance of grading of the county level administrative region. Furthermore, the paper has analyzed the feasibility of grading of the county level administrative regions, and provided a tentative plan for the basis, grade choice and development of the grading of county level administrative regions combining with our country actual circumstances, and basing on retrospection and commenting the grading of tcounty level administrative regions. Finally, the paper has also analyzed supporting measures required by the grading of county level administrative regions.