Zhaojue County -- Yi Ethnicity Volume

Author: Shi Jinbo et al.
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Publish Date: 1999-01-01
Features: After the "Survey on the Current Situation and Development of China's Ethnic Minorities" was officially approved and designated as a key project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yi ethnic group was selected as one of the surveyed ethnic groups during the survey plan formulation. The project leadership decided to collaborate between the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute of Ethnic Studies of Liangshan Prefecture to conduct a survey in a county within Liangshan Prefecture. The Yi ethnic group is distributed across Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces, with the most concentrated population in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province. For a long time, social development in Liangshan has been slow. Before the democratic reform, it was still the central area within the nine old counties of Liangshan Prefecture, with the capital of Zhaojue County being the prefecture's administrative center. Zhaojue County is a predominantly Yi-populated county, where Yi people account for 96% of the total population.