Dinghu Community

Overview

Dinghu Community belongs to Dongping Subdistrict. The district government's administrative divisions page lists the subdistrict's five residents' committees as Fangbian, Xuxi, Changle, Dinghu and Jinhu, with Dinghu fourth. The name column on that page gives only the two characters Dinghu, without the general term for community, which this entry supplies following official usage.

Administrative history

In May 2018 the provincial government approved the abolition of Dongping Town and the establishment of Dongping Subdistrict; the reply includes Dinghu Residents' Committee within the new subdistrict's area. It was issued on 15 May 2018.

The difference between the two lists

The reply describes the subdistrict as comprising six residents' committees — Fangbian, Xuxi, Changle, Dinghu, Jinhu and Qunli — and six villagers' committees — Ailian, Aimin, Heping, Lishan, Bailu and Jingshan. Today's administrative divisions page records five of each. Comparing the two name by name, the difference is Qunli Residents' Committee and Jingshan Villagers' Committee; the other five agree in both. Dinghu appears in both lists, making it one of the committees retained when the subdistrict went from six residents' committees to five.

Limits of the sources

The two lists above corroborate each other at the level of names, establishing the existence of Dinghu Community and its name at the time point of 2018. But both sources give only the name and administrative affiliation and nothing further at the level of the community: the extent, boundaries, household count and population, the date of establishment and the origin of the name are all unrecorded, and no document of the adjustment after 2018 has been obtained. This library holds no Dongping Subdistrict profile page, so there is no third source at community level, and the section on the difference between the two lists is the whole of what the existing sources can yield.

Points of doubt

• The extent, household count, population and origin of the name of Dinghu Community are not recorded in the sources used here; neither source mentions whether the name Dinghu has any connection to a watercourse.
• The document and date of the change from six residents' committees to five are not in this library. The entry can only record the difference between the two lists and cannot presume how the change was made.