On The Legal Status Of China's Subdistricted City

Optimizing administrative levels and setting up administrative districts is one of the important tasks of deepening the administrative system reform.The legal status of subdistricted city has a great influence on the orientation of the development of our country and the orientation of the urban system.Since the end of the Qing Dynasty,as a local autonomous group,the city has experienced nearly one hundred years of change.In 1958,the first county system was an attempt to decentralization in the planned economy system.It was not until the seven or eight constitution stipulates that municipalities and large cities are divided into districts and counties,the larger cities and counties have been recognized by the constitution.At the end of 1982,1993 and 1999,the full implementation of the combined city,the three wave under the impetus of the city governing county system has become China's most extensive local administrative system,subdistricted city has replaced as province agency status area that become a Huge regime.From 54 to 82 of the constitution stipulated in the constitution of the administrative division of view,China is a major provincial,county and township level three local administrative system,the main purpose of the county is under the jurisdiction of the larger city the larger city is to play the leading role in the economy.The city should be set up to adapt to urban public governance and the establishment of urban administrative system.It can be seen that the practice of "the larger city" administer county expanded to almost all "subdistricted city" does not have the constitutional basis.The city governing county system in the special period of the planned economy has played a positive role,but its drawbacks are gradually prominent.With the development of the market economic system,the contradiction between counties and cities has become increasingly prominent,and the "urban disease" has followed.At the same time,excessive administrative levels have reduced administrative efficiency and increased administrative costs.The administrative division is the projection of the state power in the regional division,which reflects the distribution of the central and local governments in the vertical.From the historical perspective of institutional change,the subdistricted city is the product of historical development,the relationship between central and local economic system reform is an important variable in the districts of the city development,the deep-rooted sense of the official standard and the ambiguity in the constitutional text are also the causes.As a product of the planned economy era,the city governing county system no longer meets the needs of the current social,political and economic development.With the decentralization of the central authority,the development of the market economy and the flattening of the public administration system,the city should set up to return to the urban administrative system.Actively promote the province governing county fiscal administration to the province governing county process is one of the ways to return subdistricted city,they should change from administrative function to the economic function,with the enhancement of decentralization and democracy autonomy consciousness,can be located in the city district for the restructuring of the municipality,the implementation of city and county division,city autonomous development based on the experience of the late Qing Dynasty,the autonomous and foreign law in the city.The formulation and improvement of relevant laws in a timely manner is also a system guarantee for the development of mayors in districts.