This paper attempts with Jiangsu administrative district is example, try hard to reveal it and the characteristic of the modern administrative partition of our country to develop law, in order to reform benefit for our administrative partition of today.

• 本文试图以近代江苏政区(包括上海市)为例，力图来揭示我国近代行政区划的特点及其发展规律，以期对我们今天的行政区划改革有所裨益。