county-level city

Calque of Chinese 縣級市／县级市 (xiànjíshì, literally “county-level city”)

county-level city (plural county-level cities)

1. An administrative division of China immediately below the prefecture level.
   • 2014, Xinping (李欣凭) Li, 活力新疆 [Modern Xinjiang]‎, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 2020 August 24, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Former Camp Detainees Serving ‘Deferred’ Jail Sentences in Xinjiang’s Korla City”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on August 28, 2020‎:

     RFA’s Uyghur Service recently received information that the former detainees in Korla (in Chinese, Kuerle)—a county-level city in Bayin’gholin Mongol (in Chinese, Bayinguoleng Menggu) Autonomous Prefecture and the XUAR’s scond-largest city—are serving the deferred sentences at home, but are subject to harsh restrictions.

• prefecture-level city