Lanrong Township () is a rural township in

Chengbu Miao Autonomous County Chengbu Miao Autonomous County (), usually referred to as Chengbu County () or abbreviated just as Chengbu, is an autonomous county of Miao people in the Province of Hunan, China. It is under the administration of Shaoyang City. Located on the s ...

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

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. As of the 2015 census it had a population of 8,982 and an area of . The town is bordered to the north by Rulin Town, to the east by Huangjin Township of

Xinning County Xinning County () is a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in the Provinces of China, Province of Hunan, China, it is under the administration of Shaoyang, Shaoyang City. Located on the south western margin of Hunan, the county is ...

, to the south by Guali Township of

Ziyuan County Ziyuan County (; ) is a county in the northeast of Guangxi, China, bordering Hunan province to the north. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Guilin. Administrative divisions Ziyuan County is divided into 3 towns, 1 tow ...

, and to the west by Baimaoping Township.

Name

Legend said that someone set up a card here to intercept

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s, so it is called "Lanniu" (). "Lan" means intercept and "Niu" means rhinos. In the local dialect, the pronunciation of the phrases "Lanniu" and "Lanrong" () are similar, so this is origin of "Lanrong".

Administrative division

As of 2015, the township is divided into 7 villages: Jiantoutian (), Xinzhai (), Baomuping (), Huilong (), Shuiyuan (), Qianfeng () and Qingyun ().

Geography

The township is located in the southeast of

. It has a total area of , of which is land and is water. There are a number of popular mountains located immediately adjacent to the townsite which include Mount Erbaoding (; ); Mount Fengyudian (; ); and Mount Santianxing (; ). The Wushui River () flows through the town north to south.

Climate

The township has a subtropical mountain climate with an average annual temperature of . Winter is warm and summer is cold. The average temperature in July is and the extreme maximum temperature is .

Demographics

In December 2015, the township had an estimated population of 8,982 and a population density of 80 persons per km2.

Miao people Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia. Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that h ...

is the dominant ethnic group in the township, accounting for 5,224, accounting for 58.16%. There are also 10 ethnic groups, such as Dong,

Hui The Hui people are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces and in the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2 ...

, Zhuang, and

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from wh ...

. Among them, there are 1,671

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(18%) and 1,557 Dong, Manchu, Hui and Zhuang people (17.33%).

Economy

The principal industries in the area are agriculture, forestry and mineral resources. The region abounds with

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and

silicon Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent metalloid (sometimes considered a non-metal) and semiconductor. It is a membe ...

References

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