| has gloss | eng: A county-controlled district (sometimes translated as county-governed district; county district or sub-county; S.Chinese: 县辖区,区; T.Chinese:縣轄區,區; pinyin: xiànxiáqǖ, qǖ) is a sub-county in P R China. as branch of a county government, a district public office(区公所) is the administrative office in a district, it is not a local government. A county-controlled district was once an important subdivision of a county all over China from 1950s to 1990s. It was common for there to be about 5 to 10 districts in a county, then about 3 to 5 towns and townships in a district. After the 1990s, county-controlled districts began to be phased out, and their role were taken over by larger towns or townships created by merging smaller ones. |