Yanyuan

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Location of Yanyuan County (pink) in Liangshan Autonomous District (yellow), Sichuan.

The county Yanyuan ( Chinese  盐源县 , pinyin Yanyuan Xiàn ) in the Autonomous County in Liangshan Yi is located in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan , People's Republic of China . Its main town is the large community of Yanjing (盐井 镇). The district has an area of ​​8,388 km² and has a population of 320,000 (2002), of which, according to the results of the 2000 census, 47% were Yi , 44% Han Chinese and 9% members of other peoples , mainly Mongols and Tibetans.

Footnotes

  1. Stevan Harrell, Aga Rehamo: Education or Migrant Labor: A New Dilemma in China's Borderlands . In: The Asia-Pacific Journal , Vol. 11, Issue 20, No. 1st May 19, 2013.

Coordinates: 27 ° 34 '  N , 101 ° 27'  E