These are two of the most important county-level cities in China.

At the same time, counties and county-level cities began to be replaced with districts, especially after 1990.

Yixing is among the top 10 county-level cities in China.

The present county-level city was established in July 1988.

Its built up area, made of 6 urban districts and 4 county-level cities, is home to about 4,896,000 inhabitants in 2010.

Fuling County was upgraded to a county-level city in 1983.

It is a county-level city under the administration of Baishan.

The county-level city had the population of 85162 people as of 2006.

There are two international border crossings in the county-level city.

Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing counties.