Banqiao Community

Overview

Banqiao Community belongs to Yongyang Subdistrict and is the seat of the subdistrict office. The district government's administrative divisions page gives Yongyang Subdistrict an area of 130.31 km² with 29 residents' committees and 3 villagers' committees, and records the seat as "Banqiao Residents' Committee". The three villagers' committees are Dongshan, Gaotang and Qiuhu.

The Yongyang Subdistrict profile page counts the 29 residents' committees and 3 villagers' committees together as "32 communities", a different presentation from the itemised table but the same figure. The boundaries, household count and population of Banqiao Community are not recorded in the sources used here.

Two accounts of the seat

One difference must be placed side by side: the reply Su Zheng Fu [2015] No. 69 of 15 July 2015, in the clause withdrawing Yongyang Town and establishing Yongyang Subdistrict, records "the subdistrict office seated at No. 34 Qinhuai Road", a street address; the seat column of the administrative divisions page reads "Banqiao Residents' Committee", a committee name. Both are official sources and they refer to different levels: the former gives the street address of the office, the latter gives the name of the administrative unit in which the seat lies. Whether the seat is still at No. 34 Qinhuai Road is not recorded in the sources, and no inference is drawn here.

The Yongyang Subdistrict profile page further states that Yongyang Subdistrict is "the seat of the district Party committee and district government". That is a statement about the seat of district-level organs, which does not conflict with Banqiao Community's status as the seat of the subdistrict office: these are different organs and the pages each refer to their own.

Points of doubt

• Banqiao is a common place name around Nanjing; the subject here is Banqiao Community in Yongyang Subdistrict, Lishui District, and has nothing to do with Banqiao Subdistrict in Yuhuatai District.
• The extent, date of establishment and origin of the name of Banqiao Community are not recorded in the sources used here.
• The street address of the subdistrict office (No. 34 Qinhuai Road) and the committee name (Banqiao Residents' Committee) stand side by side; whether the present street address is still this one, this library holds no later document.
• Counting the 29 residents' committees and 3 villagers' committees together as "32 communities" is the form used by the profile page, differing from the itemised form of the administrative divisions page; the figures agree and are not counted together.