Lanrong 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 ...

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. 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

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, to the south by Guali Township of

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, and to the west by

Baimaoping Township Baimaoping () is a rural town in Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, Hunan, China. 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 on the west, Lanrong Township on the ...

Name

Legend said that someone set up a card here to intercept

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s, so it is called "Lanniu" (). "Lan" means intercept and "Niu" means rhinos. In the local dialect, the pronunciation of the phrases "Lanniu" and "Lanrong" () are similar, so this is origin of "Lanrong".

Administrative division

As of 2015, the township is divided into 7 villages: Jiantoutian (), Xinzhai (), Baomuping (), Huilong (), Shuiyuan (), Qianfeng () and Qingyun ().

Geography

The township is located in the southeast of

. It has a total area of , of which is land and is water. There are a number of popular mountains located immediately adjacent to the townsite which include Mount Erbaoding (; ); Mount Fengyudian (; ); and Mount Santianxing (; ). The Wushui River () flows through the town north to south.

Climate

The township has a subtropical mountain climate with an average annual temperature of . Winter is warm and summer is cold. The average temperature in July is and the extreme maximum temperature is .

Demographics

In December 2015, the township had an estimated population of 8,982 and a population density of 80 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 5,224, accounting for 58.16%. There are also 10 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 1,671

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(18%) and 1,557 Dong, Manchu, Hui and Zhuang people (17.33%).

Economy

The principal industries in the area are agriculture, forestry and mineral resources. The region abounds with

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and

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 ...

References

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