Fangbian Community

Overview

Fangbian Community belongs to Dongping Subdistrict and is the seat of the subdistrict office. The district government's administrative divisions page gives Dongping Subdistrict an area of 106.28 km² with 5 residents' committees and 5 villagers' committees, and records the seat as "Fangbian Residents' Committee". The five residents' committees are Fangbian, Xuxi, Changle, Dinghu and Jinhu; the five villagers' committees are Ailian, Aimin, Heping, Lishan and Bailu.

Administrative history

In May 2018 the provincial government approved the abolition of Dongping Town and the establishment of Dongping Subdistrict; the reply closes by stating that the subdistrict office sits within Fangbian Residents' Committee. It was issued on 15 May 2018.

The reply describes the new 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, so Qunli and Jingshan are no longer among them; the remaining names agree in both places. Fangbian's standing as the seat has not changed since the subdistrict was set up in 2018.

Fangbian's standing as the seat can be checked in two independent sources, making it one of the best documented seats in this library: the closing sentence of the 2018 reply states expressly that "the Dongping Subdistrict office is seated within Fangbian Residents' Committee", and the seat column of the administrative divisions page reads "Fangbian Residents' Committee". The two give a formulation in terms of location and one in terms of a name respectively, and both refer to the same thing.

Limits of the sources

The two sources establish the existence and the seat status of Fangbian Community as of the time point of 2018, but both give only the name, the tier and the seat, and nothing further at community level: the extent, boundaries, household count and population, the date of establishment and the origin of the name are all unrecorded. This library holds no Dongping Subdistrict profile page and no division adjustment document after 2018, so there is no third source at community level.

The six residents' committees and six villagers' committees of the reply against the five of each on today's administrative divisions page give a difference of Qunli and Jingshan, which can be derived by comparing the two; but the timing, the manner and the document of the change are all unrecorded and must not be inferred.

Points of doubt

• Dongping Subdistrict now has five residents' committees and five villagers' committees against six of each in the 2018 reply. The two names that dropped out can be inferred by comparing the two lists, but the date and the document of the change are not recorded in the sources used here.
• The extent, date of establishment and origin of the name of Fangbian Community are not recorded in the sources used here.
• The name "Fangbian", like "Dongping" for the subdistrict, is a directional village name; the sources held here do not record the orientation or geographical feature on which the naming rests.