市、鎮是工商業和手工業的集中地。为適应我國社会主义工業化和对手工業、資本主义工商業的社会主义改造,幾年來曾採取了各种步驟,使市、鎮建制的設置及其行政區域、行政地位的劃分有所改進。但由於缺乏統一的規定,各地在設置市、鎮建制,和变更市、鎮區劃的过程中,產生了許多不合理現象:有些省設置的市过多;有些市的郊 City, town is the concentration of business and handicrafts. In order to meet the socialist industrialization in our country and the socialist transformation of the industrial and capitalist industries and commerce, various steps have been taken in the past few years to improve the establishment of municipal and town systems and the division of their administrative and administrative positions. However, due to the lack of unified rules, many irrational phenomena have occurred in the process of setting up municipalities and townships and in zoning the cities and towns. Some cities have set too many cities, and some cities and suburbs