Bozhou City is a provincially administered city established with the approval of the State Council in May 2000, which exercises jurisdiction over three counties and one district, Guoyang, Mengcheng, Lixin Counties and Qiaocheng District, of which Qiaocheng District is where the offices of the city’s CPC Committee and government are located. By the end of 2017, the city consisted of 89 towns and sub-districts, specifically 79 towns and 10 sub-districts. The administrative region of the whole city covers 8,522.58 km2, with a total population of 6.508 million people.