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Xiuping Community () is a
residential community A residential community is a community, usually a small town or city, that is composed mostly of residents, as opposed to commercial businesses and/or industrial facilities, all three of which are considered to be the three main types of oc ...
in
Yingxiu Yingxiu () is a town of southern Wenchuan County, in northwestern Sichuan Province. It is located at the southern end of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, and lies on the road to Jiuzhaigou Valley, Wolong and the Siguniang Mounta ...
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Wenchuan County Wenchuan County is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, People's Republic of China. The county has an area of , and a population of 100,771 as of 2010. Wolong National Nature Reserve is a protected area located i ...
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Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (; Qiang: ; ), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest. Its seat is in Barkam, and it has an ar ...
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Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of th ...
, China. As of 2021, the community has a population of 4,156 people, residing in 1,469 households. Approximately 70% of Xiuping Community is ethnically
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 ...
, with the remaining 30% being predominantly
Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken diale ...
, Qiang, and
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 ...
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History

Much of Xiuping Community was built following the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, when the
Wenchuan County Wenchuan County is a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, People's Republic of China. The county has an area of , and a population of 100,771 as of 2010. Wolong National Nature Reserve is a protected area located i ...
government built 479 homes to resettle those displaced by the earthquake.


Demographics

Approximately 70% of Xiuping Community is ethnically
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 ...
, with the remaining 30% being predominantly
Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken diale ...
, Qiang, and
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 ...
. Many who live in Xiuping Community work in government agencies, schools, and for private corporations.


Culture

In January 2021, the Xiuping Community government opened an activity center for the community's elderly population.{{Cite web, last=Chen, first=Zhenyan, date=2021-01-06, title=, script-title=zh:映秀镇秀坪社区老年活动中心揭牌成立, trans-title=Elderly Activity Center of Xiuping Community, Yingxiu unveiled and established, url=https://www.wenchuan.gov.cn/wcxrmzf/c101037/202101/b6f50c93dd724a1689688a63ca9d80c4.shtml, url-status=live, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518221121/https://www.wenchuan.gov.cn/wcxrmzf/c101037/202101/b6f50c93dd724a1689688a63ca9d80c4.shtml, archive-date=2021-05-18, access-date=2021-05-18, publisher=Wenchuan County People's Government, language=zh


References

Communities of China Wenchuan County