Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County


Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County is located in southeastern Chongqing, China, bordering Guizhou province to the south and southwest and Hubei province to the northeast. It is 270 kilometres away from Downtown Chongqing.
It is at the lower reach of Wu Jiang and in the mountainous region of Wuling. 27.3% of Pengshui is covered by forest.
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59.5% of Pengshui residents are members of the following 11 ethnic minorities: Miao, Tujia, Mongols, Hui, Gelao, Dong, Tibetans, Manchus, Zhuang, Yi, and Hani. There are 270,000 Miao and 90,000 Tujia in Pengshui.

History

In 593, Pengshui District was established. "Pengshui" means "Peng River", and was the old name for the Yu River. By 1645 during the Qing Dynasty, it was part of Chongqing Prefecture. In 1913, it was part of Dongchuan Circuit. In 1927, it was reassigned to Changgong Bureau of Sichuan Province. And in 1935, of the Eighth Administrative Inspection Area of Sichuan.
On November 16, 1949, Pengshui was captured by the communists. In January 1950, it was part of Fuling Special District of Chuandong administrative territory. In September 1952, Fuling Special District was transferred to Sichuan, and was changed to a prefecture in June 1968.
The autonomous county status was approved by the State Council on November 14, 1983. The official status began November 10 of the following year. In 1987, it was assigned to Qianjiang Prefecture. In June 1997, it was directly governed by Chongqing Municipality.

Subdivisions

10 towns and 29 townships, which contain 602 villages, 41 neighborhood committees and 4902 village committees.
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