In November 1983, the region became a prefecture-level city.

The municipal area has 1,514,188 inhabitants, while the total population of the prefecture-level city is 5,367,003 at the 2010 census.

See prefecture-level city for more information on this arrangement.

The government of the prefecture-level city is located in this sub division.

After the 1980s, prefectures began to be replaced with prefecture-level cities.

Many of the prefecture-level cities were converted very recently from leagues.

The whole city area has a population over 10.5 million, which is the largest prefecture-level city in China now.

The whole prefecture-level city features a great variety of terrain.

It is under the administration of Chuzhou, a prefecture-level city.

Administered as a prefecture-level city, it has 4.6 million residents in its area of jurisdiction.