Panlong District () is one of seven

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of the

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, the capital of

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Administrative divisions

Tuodong, Gulou, Donghua, Lianmeng, Jinchen, Qingyun, Ciba and Longquan Sub-district Offices, Shuanglong Village and Songhua Village

Demography

Panlong District stretches from Kunming's

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area to the city's northern

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. Recent boundary changes to accommodate the city's rapid growth have left the district with a population of around 700,000 people (as of 2006). Slightly more than half of them are permanent residents; 160,000 are rural migrants registered with the authorities as

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s, and a further 160,000 or so are ‘floating’ migrants with no formal registration in the locality. The migrants come from

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's rural areas, as well as from

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and

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.Youth justice: piloting rights based approaches
China Development Brief (2006-01-25)

References

External links

Panlong District Official Website
{{Coord, 23.539, N, 104.319, E, display=title, format=dms County-level divisions of Kunming