Jinzi Township () is a rural township 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 27,885 and an area of . It borders Wugang in the north, Xiyan Town in the east and south, and Wuyang Town of Suining County in the west.

History

In December 2013, 13 villages of Xiyan Town and Qiliping Horticultural Farm () merged to form Jinzi Township.

Administrative division

As of 2015, the township is divided into 1 community: Qiliping Community () and 14 villages: Santang (), Baishui (), Jinzijiang (), Shankou (), Shajing (), Jiangxi (), Taiping (), Wutang (), Fenghuang (), Xinghuo (), Changxing (), Gaozhai () and Shuiqing ().

Geography

The township is located in the north of

. It has a total area of , of which is land and is water. The highest point in the township is Mount Fengmujie () which stands above sea level. The Weixi River () flows through the town south to north.

Demographics

In December 2015, the township had an estimated population of 27,885 and a population density of 404 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 19,380, accounting for 69.5%. There are also 4 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 ...

Han Han may refer to: Ethnic groups * Han Chinese, or Han People (): the name for the largest ethnic group in China, which also constitutes the world's largest ethnic group. ** Han Taiwanese (): the name for the ethnic group of the Taiwanese p ...

, 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 8,504 Han, Dong, Hui and Man (30.5%).

Economy

The main industries in and around the township are forestry and farming.

References

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