The Traditional Village Lists of Lishui

The provincial list: batches, dates and entries

Batch	Published	Lishui entries	Source
First	7 April 2020	Cangkou in Tangxi Village, Lixiang in Shitouzhai Village, Shishanxia in Ruijia Village, Zhujia in Zhangjia Village; four in all	List of 8 April 2020 on the provincial housing department website
Third	January 2021	Putang in Putang Community, Honglan Subdistrict; one	List of 11 January 2021 on the provincial housing department website (reprinted from Ziniu News)
Sixth	February 2023	Shangjie and Xiajie in Tai Village, Jingqiao Town; Nanzhuangtou in Qiuhu Village, Yongyang Subdistrict; Luoshan in Luoshan Village, Hefeng Town; Yangjia in Sunjiaxiang Village, Hefeng Town; four in all	Nanjing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, 22 February 2023
Seventh	January 2024	Shannan Village; one	Nanjing Daily, 31 January 2024
Eighth	August 2025	Shangzhuang in Shanggang Community, Chenguo in Wuqiao Village; two	Nanjing municipal government website, 22 August 2025; notice-period report of 14 July 2025

The first batch named 107 villages in all, identified by the provincial department of housing and urban-rural development with the provincial departments of finance, natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and culture and tourism. The third batch named 138 villages, 18 of them in Nanjing, identified and published with the agreement of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. The sixth batch was published jointly by the provincial departments of housing and urban-rural development, culture and tourism, finance, natural resources, and agriculture and rural affairs: seven villages in Nanjing, four of them in Lishui, the most of any district in the city. The eighth batch named 70 villages, five of them in Nanjing.

Three points attach to the third-batch row. First, that page sits in the "media coverage" column of the provincial housing department site and reprints a report of 7 January 2021 from Ziniu News; it is not the gazette text of the recognition decision, and it gives neither the document number nor the publication date of that decision. Second, only Putang appears for Lishui in that batch, while the district government and Nanjing Morning Post attribute other Lishui villages such as Shuijing and Shanjiaxu to other batches; this library presents both statements side by side and rewrites neither. Third, the page reports a moment in January 2021, before the seventh and eighth batches were published, so it cannot be used to compute Lishui's total.

For the sixth batch the list to follow is the municipal construction commission's, which writes each entry as town or subdistrict, then village or community, then settlement. The settlements that were listed are Shangjie and Xiajie within Tai Village, Nanzhuangtou within Qiuhu Village, Luoshan within Luoshan Village, and Yangjia within Sunjiaxiang Village. This must be set beside the reply of 28 November 2023 from the district culture and tourism bureau, which gives five for Lishui and names three: Tai Village, Luoshan, and Yangjia Village in Sunjiaxiang. The two differ by one — Qiuhu's Nanzhuangtou appears on the municipal list but not in the reply, and the reply's total is one higher than the municipal list's. Both are given; this entry does not use either to complete the other, and confidence is not raised on the strength of the count now agreeing.

The national list

The sixth batch of Chinese traditional villages, published on 20 March 2023 by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other departments, includes two villages in Lishui: Shitouzhai Village in Baima Town and Zhangjia Village in Hefeng Town. Both are the administrative villages of settlements that also appear on the provincial list, Lixiang and Zhujia respectively. Note how the date is stated: October 2022 was the period of publicity, March 2023 was the formal publication. "Included" is not wrong, but the precise formulation is "formally published in March 2023". Lishui is accordingly the only Nanjing district with two villages on the national list.

Twelve identified by name, agreeing with the official total

A district government reply of November 2025, giving figures to the end of 2024, records that the district has 2 Chinese traditional villages and 12 provincial traditional villages. Identified one by one from the published lists, this library finds 12 provincial traditional villages by name: four in the first batch, one in the third, four in the sixth, one in the seventh and two in the eighth. This agrees with the official total, and the difference that used to stand between the two figures has gone.

The gap closed when the official list for the sixth batch was traced. Until then the batch rested on the district bureau's reply, which named only three villages, so eleven could be identified by name against an official twelve. The municipal construction commission's list adds a fourth, Nanzhuangtou in Qiuhu Village, which makes up the difference exactly. The two figures now corroborate one another and no longer need to be presented side by side.

That twelve agrees with twelve does not mean every batch figure is beyond dispute. The district bureau's reply gives five for the sixth batch where the municipal list gives four; counted at five, the total would reach thirteen, which does not agree with the reply's own total of twelve. This entry follows the municipal list and prints the reply's five in the table alongside it.

Points of doubt

• The third-batch page is a reprint of a media report on the official site of the provincial housing department; the recognition document number and publication date are not given there. Should the recognition document be obtained later, it should be recorded in a new source card rather than by amending this entry.
• For the sixth batch the district bureau's reply gives five and the municipal list four. This entry follows the municipal list, but does not conclude that the reply is wrong.
• Only Putang appears for Lishui in the third batch, while the district government and the Nanjing Morning Post name other Lishui villages such as Shuijing and Shanjiaxu; the two sets of batch attributions disagree, and this library presents them side by side without merging them.
• The seventh-batch report writes Shannan Village together with the former town name Honglan; the standard village name and its administrative village still need checking.
• Whether the official figure of 12 refers to exactly the same set as the itemised lists, for instance whether it counts the administrative villages of the Chinese traditional villages, is not explained in any document held here. The by-name result of twelve and the official twelve are numerically equal, but whether they rest on the same basis is still to be checked, which is why verified remains false.