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Ethnic Minorities in China

China officially registers 56 ethnic groups. The ethnic Chinese, known as the Han Chinese, compose 93 percent of the population. Han Chinese speak seven languages, with Mandarin or Putonghua - which means "common speech" -- being the official and most-used. Cantonese, which is spoken in Hong Kong and in China's other southern provinces, is the second most popular. Most of the 55 other ethnic groups use their own languages.

China's minorities account for a small 7 percent of the entire population. They live along the country's borders and some of them live on both sides.

China has five Autonomous Regions for its minorities: Guangxi, Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.

China is a multi-culture and multi-disciplined society for a few thousand years. All minorities in China today have the equal right as Han Chinese. Since minorities reside in the remote area and usually poor, Chinese government has preference policy to provide training for the minorities to progress, govern and manage.

Ethnic Minority Population
(1,000s)

Major Areas of Distribution
Achang 27.7 Yunnan
Bai 1,598.1 Yunnan, Guizhou
Bao'an 11.7 Gansu
Buyi 2,548.3 Guizhou
Bulang 82.4 Yunnan
Dai 1,025.4 Yunnan
Dahaner 121.5 Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang
De'ang 15.5 Yunnan
Dong 2,506.8 Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi
Dongxiang 373.7 Gansu, Xinjiang
Dulong 5.8 Yunnan
Ewenke 26.4 Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang
Gaoshan 2.9 Taiwan (population not counted), Fujian
Gelo 438.2 Guizhou, Guangxi
Hani 1,254.8 Yunnan
Hezhe 4.3 Heilongjiang
Hui 8,612.0 Ningxia, Gansu, Henan, Hebei, Qinghai, Shandong, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Anhui, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shaanxi, Beijing, Tianjin
Jing 18.9 Guangxi
Jingpo 119.3 Yunnan
Jinuo 18.0 Yunnan
Kazak 1,110.8 Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai
Kirgiz 143.5 Xinjiang, Heilongjiang
Korean 1,923.4 Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang
Lagu 411.5 Yunnan
Li 1,112.5 Hainan
Lisu 574.6 Yunnan, Sichuan
Loba 2.3 Tibet
Manchu 8,846.8 Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia
Maonan 72.4 Guangxi
Miao 7,383.6 Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hainan, Hubei
Menba 7.5 Tibet
Mongolian 4,802.4 Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Qinghai
Mulam 160.6 Guangxi
Naxi 277.8 Yannan, Sichuan
Nu 27.2 Yunnan
Oroqen 7.0 Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang
Ozbek 14.8 Xinjiang
Pumi 29.7 Yunnan
Qiang 198.3 Sichuan
Russian 13.5 Xinjiang
Salar 87.5 Qinghai, Gansu
She 634.7 Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong
Shui 347.1 Guizhou, Guangxi
Tajik 33.2 Xinjiang
Tartar 5.1 Xinjiang
Tibetan 4,593.1 Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Yunan
Tu 192.6 Qinghai, Gansu
Tujia 5,725.0 Hunnan, Hubei
Uygur 7,207.0 Xinjiang
Va 352.0 Yunnan
Xibo 172.9 Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin
Yao 2,137.0 Guangxi, Hunan, Ynnan, Guangdong, Guizhou
Yi 6,578.5 Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi
Yugur 12.3 Gansu
Zhuang 15,555.8 Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou

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