Xin changed in 1983 the city of Xinzhou county (county-level cities), renamed Xinzhou prefecture.

1983年改忻县为忻州市(县级市)，改称忻州行署。

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Administrative Division: 1 district (Jingyang); 2 counties (Luojiang, Zhongjiang); 3 county-level cities (Shifang, Guanghan, Mianzhu).

辖区：1区(旌阳区)，2县(罗江县，中江县)，3县级市(什邡市，广汉市，绵竹市)。

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Note: the land area of the whole municipality includes water area of Taihu Lake, Yangcheng Lake and Dianshan Lake, while those of county level cities does not.

注：全市土地面积中含太湖、阳澄湖、淀山湖等大型湖泊水域面积，有关县级市土地面积中未包括。

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The most affected areas will be the provincial-level cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin plus Hebei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces.

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Suzhou, one of 280 prefecture-level cities, has a per capita GDP which is 70% and 46% higher than Beijing and Shanghai, respectively.

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The better October flash PMI and September data paint a consistent picture of a likely further pickup in economic activity on the back of more accommodative monetary conditions, increasing infrastructure investment, recovering property market activity in second and third tier level cities and improving external demand, mainly in Asia and emerging markets.

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