Ewenki Autonomous Banner ( Evenki: ; Mongolian: , ''Eveŋki öbertegen jasaqu qosiɣu'', Эвэнк өөртөө засах хошуу; ) is an autonomous banner that lies on the border between northwestern

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and Hulun Buir grasslands and directly south of the urban district of

Hailar Hailar District, formerly a county-level city, is an urban district that serves as the seat of the prefecture-level city Hulunbuir in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China. Hulunbuir, due to its massive size, is a city in administrative terms only ...

in the

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of Hulunbuir,

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. The autonomous banner has an area of , and a population of 136,832 as of 2019. The banner's seat of government is the town of . The most populous town in the banner is (Mongolian: Mongolian Name of Dayan Town

; ), which was once Dayan Mining Area (Mongolian: Mongolian Name of Dayan Mining Area

; ) as an administrative division and is now the main part of an industrial district also named Dayan Mining Area, has an area of and a population of about 73,000.

Administrative divisions

The banner is divided into 4

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, 1

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, and 5 sums: , , , , , , , , , and . These subdivisions are further divided into 44 and 20 Residential Communities. The banner's seat of government is the town of Bayan Tohoi.

Geography and Climate

The overwhelming majority of the banner's area is

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, although the banner also includes a sizable amount of

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. The banner experiences an average annual precipitation of , and an average annual temperature of .

Economy

A number of local state-run enterprises are located in Ewenki Autonomous Banner, many of which deal with natural resources such as

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal is formed when ...

and

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. These enterprises include Huaneng Yimin Coal and Electricity Company, which produces

thermal A thermal column (or thermal) is a rising mass of buoyant air, a convective current in the atmosphere, that transfers heat energy vertically. Thermals are created by the uneven heating of Earth's surface from solar radiation, and are an example ...

and photovoltaic electricity, Shenhua Dayan Energy Group, and Inner Mongolia Tongda Coal Industry Corporation. Ewenki Autonomous Banner's

gross domestic product Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and sold (not resold) in a specific time period by countries. Due to its complex and subjective nature this measure is oft ...

totaled 10.69273 billion renminbi (RMB) as of 2019, a 2.3% increase from 2018. Of this, 8.47% came from the autonomous banner's

primary sector The primary sector of the economy includes any Industry (economics), industry involved in the extraction and production of raw materials, such as farming, logging, fishing, forestry and mining. The primary sector tends to make up a larger portio ...

, 55.16% came from the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

, and 36.37% came from the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the second ...

. In 2019, households in the autonomous banner earned an average annual

disposable income Disposable income is total personal income minus current income taxes. In national accounts definitions, personal income minus personal current taxes equals disposable personal income. Subtracting personal outlays (which includes the major ...

of 33,168 RMB. The autonomous banner's urban households earned an average of 33,214 RMB in disposable income, ranking 58th out of the 101 county-level divisions in

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for which this statistic was reported; and rural households in the autonomous banner earned an average of 24,926 RMB in disposable income, ranking 9th out of the 90 county-level divisions for which this statistic was reported. Consumer retail sales in the autonomous banner totaled 2.06048 billion RMB as of 2019. As of 2019, there were 21,204 mobile telephone subscriptions in the Ewenki Autonomous Banner, accounting for 14.50% of its total population, and 29,769 internet subscriptions, accounting for 21.76% of its total population. In 2019, Ewenki Autonomous Banner earned 736.62 million RMB in public budget revenue, ranking 40th out of the 103 county-level divisions in Inner Mongolia.

Agriculture

Ewenki Autonomous Banner produced 49,145 tons of grain in 2019, ranking 71st out of the 96 county-level divisions in Inner Mongolia which for which this statistic was reported. In the same year, the autonomous banner produced 17,749 tons of meat, ranking 57th out of Inner Mongolia's 103 county-level divisions.

Demographics

As of 2019, the autonomous banner's population of 136,832 ranks 71st out of Inner Mongolia's 103 county-level divisions. This total was a 0.7% decline from the previous year.

Ethnicity

The autonomous banner's government reported in 2013 that ethnic minorities within the banner totaled 58,843 people, accounting for 40.8% of the total population. In addition to the Han Chinese majority in the autonomous banner, sizable minority communities include the Evenki,

Mongol The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member ...

, Daur, Manchu,

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 ...

Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

, Oroqen, and Sibe people.

Education

The autonomous banner has 10

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and 11 secondary schools.

Healthcare

As of 2019, Ewenki Autonomous Banner's medical institutions host 604 beds, and are staffed by 1,100 personnel.

Transport

Ewenki Autonomous Banner is served by of highway as of 2019. is crossed by the , the Harbin-Manzhouli railway, and highways G301 and G10. Hailar International Airport is the nearest airport.

Gallery

File:Dayan Town.jpg, Places in File:No.1 Colliery of Dayan in 1990s.jpg, No.1 Colliery of Dayan in 1990s File:Winter of Dayan Town.jpg, Winter of Dayan File:Evenki Museum.jpg, Ewenki Museum in the

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References

External links

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