Study On The Reform To Administrative Division Of Province Level In China

Regionalism is the process of a country' s dividing its land into different kinds of regions for the sake of administration. Province, as the highest administrative district, has a history of more than 700 years. From Yuan Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, Mingguo till now, province has become an important part of our country' s social political and economical system as well as an important content of administrative division strategies.Firstly, this paper gives a brief retrospect of province' s formation and development and analyzes the law of its change. At present, there are 34 provincial level units in our country, including 23 provinces, 5 autonomous administration regions, 4 direct administrative cities and 2 special administrative districts. Secondly, the author points out the weaknesses of our country' s administrative division. For example, some provinces and autonomous administration regions are too large to control and the division of those units destroys the integrity of natural and economical region, and this will take negative influences on the union of all peoples. Finally, the author compares different views of some famous experts in thisfield since the end of Qing Dynasty.Based on other people' s research, this paper gives a research on the necessity and ways to reform the administrative division in our country, and at the same time points out some restricting factors arising in the process of reform. Under the general principles of administrative division, and based on the reality of our country at present, the author puts forward asolution---changing the present 34 provincial level units to60 provincial level units---and a series of relevant measuresto solve the above problems to serve and strengthen the building and development of our country.