A Study Of City Name Alteration At Present Time In China

The text describes the phenomenon of city name alteration from the nineties of twenties century until now. Through investigating and analyzing several representational cases, the text summarizes the influence of the city name alteration at present time from positive and negative aspects the nowadays, under the visual angle of city administration. At the same time, the text summarizes the problem during the process of the city name alteration, and gives some proposals for the standardization of the city name alteration. The standpoint of the text is that the city name alteration is the representation of the government public administration, its a systematic work relating to factors from political,economic and culture aspects. To make the decision of the city name alteration, we shouldn't think from the only angle of view, we need to do the general argument, science and wise decision-making, which is on the basis of wide agreement. Comparing with the other history period and other cities, the name-changing activities of China nowadays have strong economic function, this situation exists at large, ignoring the culture and history value, and there is no normative censorship for the city name alteration, the relative law and statute couldn't implement effectively, leads to the chaos of the administration of city name. Aiming at these problems, the text holds the standpoint that it is necessary to standardize the city name alteration from the idea and system aspects.The full text is divided into five parts:The first part is the foreword. Indicates the subject of the text, states the study situation and the meaning of this subject. From the nineties of twenties century, the application of the city name alteration has been increasing, but the rational censorship procedure hasn't come into being, so it couldn't give the rational and correct decision-making aiming at the positive and negative effect. The researches on the name-changing of city are focusing on certain field, lacking general introduction and analysis, the text's meaning and innovation are just from it. The second part analyses and generalizes the phenomenon of the city name alteration nowadays. At the beginning, indicate the characteristic of city name--- commonality, the city name is the important factor to constitute the nation administration system, as a result the city name alteration is a systems engineering dealing with politics,economy and culture, the decision-making for the city name alteration needs to consider generally and wholly. As follows, the text introduces the city name alteration in China nowadays, and compares the city name alteration case in overseas cities and other history period in china, finds that the city name alteration at present in China are aiming at the economic function.The third part is about the positive and negative function of the city name alteration, provides the general reference to estimate the rationality of the city name alteration. Aiming at the problems existing in the government decision-making model and goal during the city name-changing activities, this part introduces the point that we should pay much attention from two aspects: one is that estimate the apparent and recessive influence during the city name alteration, hopes to provide the all-around visual angle for the decision-making, the other is that expatiates the result conduced by the faultiness during the process of city name alteration.The fourth part brings forward the corresponding countermeasure aiming at the problems that existing in city name alteration at present in china. The text holds the point that the problems existing in the city name alteration at present appear from two aspects: one is that the decision-maker and the citizen's cognition on the city name alteration is limited, which results in the lack of estimating the importance and complexity of the city name alteration. The other is that there are many holes and limitations in the system for the city name alteration which needs to be consummated further.The fifth part summarizes the whole text's main standpoint and the result of argumentation. The text think that the complexity of the city name alteration determines that we should take the attitude of caution, more important is that we should ensure the legitimacy and validity of the system for the city name alteration.