Baimaoping () is a rural town in

Chengbu Miao Autonomous County Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (; usually referred to as "Chengbu County", commonly abbreviated as "Chengbu", ) is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on ...

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. As of the 2015 census it had a population of 16,600 and an area of . It is surrounded by Rulin Town on the north,

Tingping Township Tingping Township () is a rural township in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan, China. As of the 2015 census it had a population of 17,200 and an area of . The town shares a border with Wutuan Town to the west, Baimaoping Township to the east, ...

on the west,

Lanrong Township Lanrong Township () is a rural township in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan, China. As of the 2015 census it had a population of 8,982 and an area of . The town is bordered to the north by Rulin Town, to the east by Huangjin Township of Xinnin ...

on the east, and Guali Township of

Ziyuan County Ziyuan County (; za, Swhyenz Yen) is a county in the northeast of Guangxi, China, bordering Hunan province to the north. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Guilin. Languages The ''Ziyuan County Gazetteer'' lists the f ...

on the south.

Name

The name of "Baimaoping" comes from the white

elymus repens ''Elymus repens'', commonly known as couch grass, is a very common perennial species of grass native to most of Europe, Asia, the Arctic biome, and northwest Africa. It has been brought into other mild northern climates for forage or erosion cont ...

on the riverbanks in the territory. "Bai" means white, "Mao" means elymus repens and "Ping" means riverbanks.

History

In 1995, the townships of Dayang () and Qingyuan () merged into Baimaoping Township. On 17 January 2019, it was upgraded to a town.

Administrative division

As of 2015, the town is divided into 18 villages: Baimaoping (), Xiaozhai (), Hengbanqiao (), Baitou'ao (), Shengli (), Taiping (), Dachaping (), Yuanjiashan (), Heping (), Dayang (), Daheng (), Aoling (), Huangsan (), Zhaungtuanyuan (), Chengxi (), Lawu (), Gewu (), and Katian ().

Geography

The town is located in the southeast of

. It has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The Wushui River () flows through the town. The highest point in the town is Mount Dachongtou () which stands above sea level. The second highest point in the town is Mount Dajianling (), which, at above sea level.

Demographics

In December 2015, the town had an estimated population of 16,600 and a population density of 55 persons per km2.

Miao people The Miao are a group of linguistically-related peoples living in Southern China and Southeast Asia, who are recognized by the government of China as one of the 56 List of ethnic groups in China, official ethnic groups. The Miao live primarily in ...

is the dominant ethnic group in the township, accounting for 9,900, accounting for 59.64%. There are also 13 ethnic groups, such as Dong,

Hui The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...

, Zhuang, and

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and ...

. Among them, there are 3,300

Han people The Han Chinese () or Han people (), are an East Asian ethnic group native to China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population and consisting of various subgroups speaking distinctive ...

(19.88%) and 2,600 Dong, Manchu, Hui and Zhuang people (15.66%).

Economy

The town's economy is based on nearby mineral resources and agricultural resources. The main agricultural products are

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chestnut The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce. The unrelat ...

, wood, winter bamboo shoots,

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litsea cubeba ''Litsea cubeba'', the aromatic litsea or may chang, is an evergreen tree or shrub 5–12 meters high in the family Lauraceae. It is native to Southern Chinese region including Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Taiwan and Fujian, and Southeast Asian co ...

, etc. The region abounds with

manganese Manganese is a chemical element with the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese is a transition metal with a multifaceted array of industrial alloy use ...

silicon Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. It is a member of group 14 in the periodic tab ...

lead Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...

zinc Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Zinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodi ...

, and

zeolite Zeolites are microporous, crystalline aluminosilicate materials commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts. They mainly consist of silicon, aluminium, oxygen, and have the general formula ･y where is either a metal ion or H+. These p ...

Transport

The County Road X090 passes across the town. Due to the mountainous terrain the road is the only transportation option. The closest airport,

Shaoyang Wugang Airport Shaoyang Wugang Airport is an airport serving the city of Shaoyang in Hunan Province, China. It is located north of Wugang, a county-level city under the administration of Shaoyang, and from the urban center of Shaoyang. The airport receive ...

, is located north of Baimaoping in Wugang.

References

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