Rucheng County () is a

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Hunan Province Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

, China, it is under the administration of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of Chi ...

Chenzhou Chenzhou () is a prefecture-level city located in the south of Hunan province, China, bordering the provinces of Jiangxi to the east and Guangdong to the south. Its administrative area covers , 9.2% of the provincial area, and its total populatio ...

. Located in the southeastern corner of the province, the county is bordered to the northwest by

Yizhang County Yizhang County () is a county in Hunan Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Chenzhou. Yizhang County covers . As of 2015, it had a registered population of 644,300 and a resident population of 589,400. o ...

, to the north by Zixing City, to the northeast by

Guidong County Guidong County () is a county in Hunan Province, China, bordering Jiangxi province to the east. It is under the administration of Chenzhou prefecture-level City. Located on the southeastern margin of the province, it is the easternmost county-le ...

, to the east by

Chongyi County Chongyi County () is a county under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou Municipality, in the southwest of Jiangxi province, China. Statistics Chongyi has an area of and population of 200,000. Administration The county executive, legislature, judiciary a ...

, to the southeast by Renhua County, to the southwest by Lechang City. Rucheng County covers , as of 2015, It had a registered population of 407,200 and a resident population of 344,400. The county has nine

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an or ...

and five townships under its jurisdiction, the

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is Luyang Town ()., also see o
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Yao people The Yao people (its majority branch is also known as Mien; ; vi, người Dao) is a government classification for various minorities in China and Vietnam. They are one of the 55 officially recognised ethnic minorities in China and reside in t ...

, Yao ethnic minority accounts for 15.27% of the population; Another local minority is

She people The She people (; Shehua: ; Cantonese: , Fuzhou: ) are an ethnic group in China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. The She are the largest ethnic minority in Fujian, Zhejiang, and J ...

, it accounts for 0.24% of the population in the county.Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Hunan Forest Restoration and Development Project, fro
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Administrative divisions

;9 towns * Daping () * Jingpo () *

Luyang Luyang District () is one of four urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, East China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List o ...

() * Maqiao () * Nuanshui () * Quanshui () * Reshui () * Sanjiangkou () * Tuqiao () ;3 townships * Haotou () * Jiyi () * Nandong () ;2 ethnic townships * Yao Wenming () * Yao Yanshou ()

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