Administrative History of Lishui

The county period

The district profile page records that Lishui was established as a county in the eleventh year of the Kaihuang era of the Sui (591 CE). The historical evolution page notes that the county system ended with the conversion to a district in 2013 after 1,422 years, a figure consistent with the founding and conversion dates given on the same page.

Conversion to a district

The historical evolution page records that in February 2013, with provincial government approval, Lishui County was abolished and Lishui District of Nanjing was established. The page gives only the month; the document number is not recorded.

Conversion of towns into subdistricts

The two rounds of conversion, with dates and document numbers:

• July 2015: Yongyang Town and Zhetang Town abolished, Yongyang Subdistrict and Zhetang Subdistrict established (Su Zheng Fu [2015] No. 69, issued 15 July 2015). Their offices were at 34 Qinhuai Road and 8 Tuanshan West Road respectively.
• May 2018: Dongping Town, Honglan Town and Shiqiu Town abolished, and Dongping, Honglan and Shiqiu subdistricts established (Su Zheng Fu [2018] No. 30, issued 15 May 2018).

The historical evolution page gives only the month for both rounds; exact dates and office addresses rest on the provincial approvals, the two sources complementing each other.

The present structure

The administrative divisions page records that the district governs five subdistricts and three towns, and has 118 villages and communities, of which 81 are community residents' committees and 37 villagers' committees. Baima, Hefeng and Jingqiao are named in no conversion approval and remain towns at the date of the sources held here.

Points of doubt

• The document number of the 2013 county-to-district approval is not recorded in the sources used here.
• The 2018 approval defined Dongping Subdistrict with six residents' committees and six villagers' committees, whereas the administrative divisions page now gives five and five. A later adjustment accounts for the difference, and its document is not held in this library.