Village (China)

Villages in China are important groups of people living together in the countryside. These places help organize things like counting people and delivering mail. Each village has clear edges and a leader to help manage daily life.

In the year 2000, many villages in China were very crowded, with over 500 million people living in these busy areas. These villages covered more than 20% of the country's land.

By 2020, almost every village had roads to connect them. The last village to get a road was a faraway place in Sichuan province, in an area called Butuo County. This shows how China worked to make sure all its villages were linked together.

Types of villages

Urban

Residential community (simplified Chinese: 社区; traditional Chinese: 社區; pinyin: shèqū)

• Residents' committee (simplified Chinese: 居民委员会; traditional Chinese: 居民委員會; pinyin: jūmín wěiyuánhuì)
  • Residential groups (simplified Chinese: 居民小组; traditional Chinese: 居民小組; pinyin: jūmín xiǎozǔ)

Note Urban village (Chinese: 城中村; pinyin: chéngzhōngcūn) is a village that naturally forms inside a city and is not an official government area.

Rural

• Administrative village or Village (Chinese: 行政村 or 村; pinyin: xíngzhèngcūn or cūn)
• Hamlet or Band (Chinese: 屯; pinyin: tún)
• Gacha (Chinese: 嘎查; pinyin: gāchá) only for Inner Mongolia.
• Ranch (Chinese: 牧委会; pinyin: mùwěihuì) only for Qinghai.
• Ethnic village (Chinese: 民族村; pinyin: mínzúcūn) only for villages with people from minority groups.
  • Village committees (simplified Chinese: 村民委员会; traditional Chinese: 村民委員會; pinyin: cūnmín wěiyuánhuì)
    • Villager groups (simplified Chinese: 村民小组; traditional Chinese: 村民小組; pinyin: cūnmín xiǎozǔ)

Natural village

Natural villages (Chinese: 自然村; pinyin: zìráncūn) are places where people live together, often called villages. They don’t have official borders, but rules in the past decided who could live in them. These villages have different names like cun (村), tun (屯), or ying (营), depending on where they are. There are about 2 million natural villages in China, but their numbers are falling quickly because of cities growing larger.

Lists of village-level divisions

Villages (村)

List of villages in China

Provinces

• List of village-level divisions of Anhui
• List of village-level divisions of Fujian
• List of village-level divisions of Gansu
• List of village-level divisions of Guangdong
• List of village-level divisions of Guizhou
• List of village-level divisions of Hainan
• List of village-level divisions of Hebei
• List of village-level divisions of Heilongjiang
• List of village-level divisions of Henan
• List of village-level divisions of Hubei
• List of village-level divisions of Hunan
• List of village-level divisions of Jiangsu
• List of village-level divisions of Jiangxi
• List of village-level divisions of Jilin
• List of village-level divisions of Liaoning
• List of village-level divisions of Qinghai
• List of village-level divisions of Shaanxi
• List of village-level divisions of Shandong
• List of village-level divisions of Shanxi
• List of village-level divisions of Sichuan
• List of village-level divisions of Yunnan
• List of village-level divisions of Zhejiang

Autonomous areas

• List of village-level divisions of Guangxi
• List of village-level divisions of Inner Mongolia
• List of village-level divisions of Ningxia
• List of village-level divisions of the Tibet Autonomous Region
• List of village-level divisions of Xinjiang

Municipalities

• List of village-level divisions of Beijing
• List of village-level divisions of Chongqing
• List of village-level divisions of Shanghai
• List of village-level divisions of Tianjin