Zhetang Community

Overview

Zhetang Community belongs to Zhetang Subdistrict and is a residents' committee. The district government's administrative divisions page gives Zhetang Subdistrict (Lishui Development Zone) 16 residents' committees and no villagers' committees, of which Zhetang is one. The name column on that page gives only the two characters Zhetang, without the general term for community, which this entry supplies following official usage.

The 16 residents' committees are Tuanshan, Mingzhuqiao, Xin'an, Xinghe, Yanglinqiao, Qianjin, Hehua, Jichanglu, Zhetang, Konggang, Wushan, Qunli, Kangyi, Chongxian, Qinhuai and Shahe. Zhetang Subdistrict is the only one of the eight towns and subdistricts with no villagers' committees at all; its 16 residents' committees rank second, behind only Yongyang Subdistrict's 29.

Same name, different seat

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

The 2015 reply is more specific about the seat: the subdistrict office sits at No. 8 Tuanshan West Road. Read together with "Tuanshan Community Residents' Committee" on the administrative divisions page, the street number falls within Tuanshan Community and has nothing to do with Zhetang Community.

Administrative history

In July 2015 the provincial government approved the abolition of Zhetang Town and the establishment of the Zhetang Subdistrict office over the same area, the office sitting at No. 8 Tuanshan West Road; the reply was issued on 15 July 2015. The subdistrict's area is that of the former town, unchanged.

The origin of one of the 16 names, Qunli, can be read against the history of Dongping Subdistrict: the 2018 reply establishing Dongping Subdistrict lists Qunli among the six residents' committees of the former Dongping Town, while today's administrative divisions page lists Qunli among the 16 residents' committees of Zhetang Subdistrict. The two sources together show that Qunli was transferred from Dongping to Zhetang; the document and date of the change are not in this library.

Points of doubt

• The extent, household count, population and origin of the name of Zhetang Community are not recorded in the sources used here.
• The document and date of the transfer of Qunli from Dongping Subdistrict to Zhetang Subdistrict are not in this library. The difference between the two lists can be established by comparison, but the manner of the transfer is not presumed here.