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the Yis
With a population of b, 672, 000, the Yis a~ distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan andGuizhou, and in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Liang~han Yi AutonomousPrefecture in Sichuan holds the single largest Yi community in China. The Yis areres...
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Manchu
With a population of 9,821,000, the Mancha lathnorities are distributed throughout thecountry. The majority of the Manchus live in Liaoning Province manily. Some are inHeilongjiang, Jitin, Inner Mongolia, Hebel, and Xthjiang provinces and a...
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The Zhuangs
The Zhuang nationality has about 18 million people, which is the largest population of the 55 minority ethnic groups in China. About half of them live in the Guangxi ZhuaagAutonomous Region (established in 1958) and a small number of them l...
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The Miaos
About half population of the Miao nadonabty live ill Guizhou Province. Some Miaos are scattered in other autonomous region and provinces such as Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and Sichuan. Their ancestry carl be traced back to the "Chiyou" trib...
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Uygur Nationality and Xingjiang
The Uygur, with a population of 7,21il, 000, have lived at the foot of TianshanMountains for several centuries. Being one of the most populous minority peoples in China, the Uygur nationality is largely concentrated in the Xthgjiang Uygur A...
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Hui ethnic group
The Hui ethnic group has a population of about g ,603,000. As one of the big mil~ority concentrations are in the Ningxia, Qinghai, Gansu, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Xinjiang and Yunnan autonomous regions and provinces. The Hui originated in th...
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Mongolians and Inner Mongolia
With a population of 4,807, 000, the Mongolians were originally herdsmen roaming the Ergun River banks and moved to the grasslands of western Mongolia later. They were living on the upper reaches of the Onon, Ke~len and Tula rivers anti in...
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Policy of the Central Government
China serves as home to 56 ethnic groups ( each of the 10 big ethnic groups has a population of more than one million). Han (Huaxia) majority makes up 91.5% of the total population of Chinese. The Central People's Government has given effec...
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Brief History - The 56 Nationalities in China
In many of China's cities and towns, it is commonplace to see two or mere edlic groups living together, While they live in the same towns however, they still maflltain their individual communities, The communities of the different ethic gro...