Weixi
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Tibetan script :
འབའ་ ལུང་ ལི་ སུའ ུ་ རིགས་ རང་སྐྱོང་ རྫོང
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Wylie transliteration : 'ba' lung li su'u rigs rang skyong rdzong
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Simplified :
维西 傈 僳 族 自治县
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Pinyin : Wéixī Lìsùzú Zìzhìxiàn
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The Autonomous District Weixi Lisu (Tibetan Balung is) an autonomous group of Lisu in Autonomous County Dêqên of Tibetans in the northwestern Chinese province of Yunnan . It has an area of 4,661 km². In 2003 Weixi had 144,551 inhabitants, 83.28% of whom belonged to national minorities. 13.05% of the country’s Primi live in Weixi. The main town of Weixi is the large community Baohe (保 和 镇).
The Shouguo Temple ( 寿 国寺 , Shouguo si ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-760) since 2006 .
Administrative structure
At the community level, the district consists of a large community and nine communities. These are:
- Baohe municipality (保 和 镇)
- Community Yonchun (永春乡)
- Municipality of Pantiange (攀 天 阁 乡)
- Community Zijixun (自济讯乡)
- Community Kangpu (康普乡)
- Community Yezhi (叶枝乡)
- Badi municipality (巴迪 乡)
- Tacheng Township (塔 城乡)
- Community Zhonglu (中路乡)
- Community Weideng (维登乡)
Ethnic breakdown of the population (2000)
At the 2000 census, Weixi had 146,017 inhabitants.
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Lisu | 79,355 | 54.35% |
| Han | 24,278 | 16.63% |
| Naxi | 18,489 | 12.66% |
| Tibetans | 9,983 | 6.84% |
| Bai | 9,941 | 6.81% |
| Yi | 2.016 | 1.38% |
| Primi | 1,288 | 0.88% |
| Nu | 233 | 0.16% |
| Derung | 135 | 0.09% |
| Hui | 134 | 0.09% |
| Miao | 56 | 0.04% |
| Hani | 21st | 0.01% |
| Mongols | 15th | 0.01% |
| Others | 73 | 0.05% |
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Legacies and Social Memory: Missionaries and Scholars in the Ethnic Southwest (PDF; 66 kB)
Footnotes
- ↑ 维西 傈 僳 族 自治县 , Wéixī Lìsùzú Zìzhìxiàn ; Lisu (Fraser alphabet): WEI-XI.
- ↑ 维西 傈 僳 族 自治县
Coordinates: 27 ° 11 ' N , 99 ° 17' E