Honglan Community

Overview

Honglan Community belongs to Honglan Subdistrict and is a residents' committee. The district government's administrative divisions page records that Honglan Subdistrict has 8 residents' committees and 4 villagers' committees, with Honglan first among the 8. The name column on that page gives only the two characters Honglan, without the general term for community, which this entry supplies following official usage.

The 8 residents' committees are Honglan, Sanliting, Tianshengqiao, Xiwang, Wuxiangsi, Fujiabian, Putang and Shanggang; the 4 villagers' committees are Tangxi, Qingfeng, Chenbian and Jiangjia. Comparing the subtotals for the eight towns and subdistricts on the same page, Yongyang Subdistrict with 29 and Zhetang Subdistrict with 16 both exceed Honglan, placing its 8 third.

Same name, different seat

Honglan Subdistrict takes its name from Honglan, yet the seat of the subdistrict office is recorded as "Sanliting Residents' Committee". The namesake community and the seat stand in separate columns of the administrative divisions page, showing that the subdistrict is named after Honglan while its office sits at Sanliting.

This arrangement is consistent with the 2018 reply: the clause abolishing Honglan Town and establishing Honglan Subdistrict names no seat of its own, and today's administrative divisions page gives the seat as Sanliting. Neither source makes Honglan Community the seat.

Administrative history

In May 2018 the provincial government approved the abolition of Honglan Town and the establishment of Honglan Subdistrict; it was issued on 15 May 2018. The district government's history of administrative changes page records only the year and month.

Limits of the sources

The two sources this entry holds are the most this library can bring to bear on the community, and that limit must be stated.

The administrative divisions page is the only source that directly records the name and position of the Honglan residents' committee; Su Zheng Fu [2018] No. 30 abolishes Honglan Town and establishes Honglan Subdistrict without listing the residents' committees below it, so it cannot be checked name by name against the former. This library holds no Honglan Subdistrict profile page and no approval document establishing that subdistrict, so there is no third source for the administrative history of Honglan Community.

Indirect support exists at the level of the place name only: the 2022 place-name cultural heritage notice of the district Civil Affairs Bureau lists "Honglan" under the Honglan Subdistrict row, a name identical to that of the subdistrict, which shows that "Honglan" continues in use as a place name within the subdistrict's jurisdiction. The list does not specify a community, so it cannot be used to identify that place name with the area of this community. That notice is also a draft seeking comment rather than a published list.

Points of doubt

• The extent, household count, population and origin of the name of Honglan Community are not recorded in the sources used here, nor is the process by which Honglan came by its name.
• This library holds no reply that lists the 8 residents' committees and 4 villagers' committees of Honglan Subdistrict one by one, so the differences before and after 2018 cannot be checked name by name. This differs from Dongping Subdistrict, for which the reply does give a full list.
• The two sources of this entry are the whole of the existing source layer; although the name "Honglan" appears in the district place-name cultural heritage notice, that document specifies no community and cannot be used to fill in the history or extent of this community.