27°49′N99°42′E / 27.82°N 99.70°E /27.82; 99.70
Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture | |
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| Chinese transcription(s) | |
| • Simplified Chinese | 迪庆藏族自治州 |
| • Hanyu pinyin | Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu |
| Tibetan transcription(s) | |
| • Tibetan script | བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ |
| • Tibetan pinyin | Dêqên Pörig Ranggyong Kü |
| Etymology: From Tibetanབདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), meaning "auspicious place" | |
 Location of Diqing Prefecture in Yunnan | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Prefecture seat | Shangri-La |
| Government | |
| • Type | Autonomous prefecture |
| • CCP Secretary | Gu Kun |
| • Congress Chairman | Gu Kun |
| • Governor | Qi Jianxin |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Du Yongchun |
| Area | |
• Total | 23,185.59 km2 (8,952.01 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 400,182 |
| • Density | 17.2599/km2 (44.7031/sq mi) |
| GDP[1] | |
| • Total | CN¥ 30.3 billion US$ 4.5 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 77,785 US$11,473 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
| Postal code | 674400 |
| Area code | 0887 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-YN-34 |
| License plate prefix | 云R |
| Website | www |
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| Simplified Chinese | 迪庆藏族自治州 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 迪慶藏族自治州 | ||||||
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| Tibetan | བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་ | ||||||
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Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture[a] is anautonomous prefecture in northwesternYunnan province, China. Covering an area of 23,870 km2 (9,220 sq mi), it is bordered by theTibet Autonomous Region to the northwest,Sichuan province to the northeast, and other parts of Yunnan province to the southwest and southeast;Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture andLijiang, respectively. Its capital and largest city isShangri-La. By the end of 2024, the total resident population of the state will be 395,000.[2]
Diqing Prefecture is divided into three county-level divisions: Shangri-La,Deqin County, andWeixi Lisu Autonomous County. They were all formerly under the administration of Lijiang (located southeast of this prefecture).[3] Diqing Prefecture was established in 1957 and named by its first governor.[3]
The prefecture's name is derived from the Tibetan wordབདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), which means "auspicious place". In Chinese, the name is written with the characters迪 (dí) and庆 (qìng), which mean "to enlighten" and "to celebrate", respectively.[4] Alternate English names includeDechen andDeqing.[5]
Diqing Shangri-La Airport, also known simply as Diqing Airport, is one of the biggest airports in the northwest of the Yunnan Province. It is located about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) from the center ofShangri-La City. There are flights toLhasa,Chengdu,Beijing (viaKunming),Shanghai Pudong,Shenzhen (viaGuiyang),Guangzhou,Kunming andXishuangbanna.[citation needed]
Highways are the main means of transportation to reach Diqing Prefecture. The major highway in this prefecture isChina National Highway 214 (a Yunnan-Tibet-Qinghai highway abbreviated "G214").
There are also direct bus routes toKunming,Lijiang andPanzhihua (Sichuan).
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage |
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| Tibetan | 127,685 | 32.95% |
| Lisu | 105,397 | 27.20% |
| Han | 64,823 | 16.73% |
| Naxi | 43,447 | 11.21% |
| Bai | 21,208 | 5.47% |
| Yi | 17,759 | 4.58% |
| Pumi | 2,081 | 0.54% |
| Miao | 1,641 | 0.42% |
| Hui | 1,593 | 0.41% |
| Hani | 251 | 0.06% |
| Others | 1,626 | 0.42% |
Diqing Prefecture is divided into three county-level divisions:Shangri-La,Deqin County, andWeixi Lisu Autonomous County.
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| Name | Hanzi | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Tibetan Pinyin | Wylie | Population (2010 Census) | Area (km2) | Density (/km2) | |
| Shangri-La | 香格里拉市 | Xiānggélǐlā Shì | སེམས་ཀྱི་ཉི་ཟླ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | Sêmgyi'nyida Chongkyir | sems kyi nyi zla grong khyer | 172,988 | 11,613 | 14.89 | |
| Deqin County | 德钦县 | Déqīn Xiàn | བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། མཇོལ་རྫོང་། | Dêqên Zong Jol Zong | bde chen rdzong mjol rdzong | 66,589 | 7,596 | 8.76 | |
| Weixi Lisu Autonomous County | 维西傈僳族 自治县 | Wéixī Lìsùzú Zìzhìxiàn | འབའ་ལུང་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་རྫོང་། | Balung Lisurig Ranggyong Zong | 'ba' lung li su'u rigs rang skyong rdzong | 160,605 | 4,661 | 34.45 | |
This prefecture is in the southern part of a historical region calledKham, which belonged to theTibetan Empire many centuries ago. After the decline of that empire in the 9th century, peripheral areas like southern Kham remained part of Tibet more in anethnographical than a political sense. As a practical matter, by the mid-1700s, the Tibetan Government had mostly lost control of Kham toManchu (Qing) China and that situation lasted until the end of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912.[6]
Southern Kham along with other parts of Yunnan were ruled by theYunnan clique from 1915 until 1927. Then it was controlled by Governor and warlordLong (Lung) Yun until near the end of theChinese Civil War, whenDu Yuming removed him under the order ofChiang Kai-shek.
There are three county-level divisions in this prefecture:Shangri-La (formerly Zhongdian),Deqin County andWeixi Lisu Autonomous County (formerly Weixi) and they all were under the administration ofLijiang.[3] The Autonomous Prefecture was established in 1957 and named "Diqing" by its first governor.[3][7]
During the remainder of the 20th century, the prefecture's capital was called Zhongdian but was renamed on December 17, 2001 as Shangri-La City (other spellings: Semkyi'nyida, Xianggelila or Xamgyi'nyilha) after the fictional land ofShangri-La in the 1933James Hilton novelLost Horizon, with an eye toward promoting tourism in the area.[8][9]
On June 25, 2007 thePudacuo National Park was established on 500 square miles (1,300 km2) in this prefecture. On January 11, 2014, there was a major fire in the 1,000-year-oldDukezong Tibetan neighborhood of the capital city Shangri-La, causing much damage.[10]
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