Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

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27°49′N 99°42′E﻿ / ﻿27.82°N 99.70°E﻿ / 27.82; 99.70

Autonomous prefecture in Yunnan, China

Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Autonomous prefecture

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 Tibetan བདེ་ཆེན (dêqên), meaning "auspicious place"

Location of Dêqên 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/km2 (45/sq mi)
Time zone| UTC+8 (CST)
Postal code|

674400

Area code| 0887
ISO 3166 code| CN-YN-34
Website| www.diqing.gov.cn
Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Chinese name
Simplified Chinese| 迪庆藏族自治州
Traditional Chinese| 迪慶藏族自治州
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Déhóng Dǎizú Jǐngpōzú Zìzhìzhōu
Tibetan name
Tibetan| བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་
| Transcriptions

Wylie| bde-chen bod-rigs rang-skyong khul
Tibetan Pinyin| Dêqên Pörig Ranggyong Kü

Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture[a] is an autonomous prefecture in northwestern Yunnan, China. Covering an area of 23,870 km2 (9,220 sq mi), it is bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region to the northwest, Sichuan to the northeast, and other parts of Yunnan to the southwest and southeast; Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture and Lijiang, respectively. Its capital and largest city is Shangri-La.

Dêqên Prefecture is divided into three county-level divisions: Shangri-La, Dêqên County, and Weixi Lisu Autonomous County. They were all formerly under the administration of Lijiang (located southeast of this prefecture).[1] Dêqên Prefecture was established in 1957 and named by its first governor.[1]

## Etymology[edit]

The prefecture's name is derived from the Tibetan word བདེ་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.[2] Archaic English spellings of the Chinese name include Dechen and Deqing.[3]

## Transport[edit]

### Air[edit]

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 of Shangri-La City. There are flights to Lhasa, Chengdu, Beijing (via Kunming), Shanghai Pudong, Shenzhen (via Guiyang), Guangzhou, Kunming and Xishuangbanna.[citation needed]

### Road[edit]

Highways are the main means of transportation to reach Dêqên Prefecture. The major highway in this prefecture is China National Highway 214 (a Yunnan-Tibet-Qinghai highway abbreviated "G214").

There are also direct bus routes to Kunming, Lijiang and Panzhihua (Sichuan).

## Demography[edit]

Ethnic composition of Dêqên Prefecture, 2020 census Ethnicity | Population  | Percentage

|
|

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%

## Subdivisions[edit]

Main article: List of administrative divisions of Yunnan

Dêqên Prefecture is divided into three county-level divisions: Shangri-La, Dêqên County, and Weixi Lisu Autonomous County.

Map

Shangri-La
(city)

Dêqên
County

Weixi
County

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། | Xamgyi'nyilha Chongkyir | sems kyi nyi zla grong khyer | 172,988  | 11,613  | 14.89
Dêqên 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

## History[edit]

This prefecture is in the southern part of a historical region called Kham, which belonged to the Tibetan 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 an ethnographical than a political sense. As a practical matter, by the mid-1700s, the Tibetan Government had mostly lost control of Kham to Manchu (Qing) China and that situation lasted until the end of the Manchu Dynasty in 1912.[4]

Southern Kham along with other parts of Yunnan were ruled by the Yunnan clique from 1915 until 1927. Then it was controlled by Governor and warlord Long (Lung) Yun until near the end of the Chinese Civil War, when Du Yuming removed him under the order of Chiang Kai-shek.

There are three county-level divisions in this prefecture: Shangri-La (formerly Zhongdian), Dêqên County and Weixi Lisu Autonomous County (formerly Weixi) and they all were under the administration of Lijiang.[1] The Autonomous Prefecture was established in 1957 and named "Diqing" by its first governor.[1][5]

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 of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel Lost Horizon, with an eye toward promoting tourism in the area.[6][7]

On June 25, 2007 the Pudacuo 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-old Dukezong Tibetan neighborhood of the capital city Shangri-La, causing much damage and hardship.[8]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^

* simplified Chinese: 迪庆藏族自治州; traditional Chinese: 迪慶藏族自治州; pinyin: Díqìng Zàngzú Zìzhìzhōu
* Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་, Wylie: bde-chen bod-rigs rang-skyong khul, ZYPY: Dêqên Pörig Ranggyong Kü

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d "System Evolution", via official website of Diqing government (in Chinese). Accessed April 25, 2015.
2. ^ "Diqing". Wonders of Yunnan.
3. ^ Barnett, Robert. Lhasa: Streets with Memories, p. 197 (Columbia University Press, 2010).
4. ^ Goldstein, M.C. "Change, Conflict and Continuity among a community of nomadic pastoralists—A Case Study from western Tibet, 1950–1990" in Resistance and Reform in Tibet (eds. Barnett and Akiner. London: Hurst & Co., 1994).
5. ^ Mackerras, Colin and Yorke, Amanda. The Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China, p. 209 (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
6. ^ Yü, Dan. Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Ecoaesthetics, p. 47 (Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, 2015).
7. ^ Merkel-Hess, Kate. China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, p. 255 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
8. ^ "Night fire burns for hours, destroys ancient Tibetan town in southwest China's Shangri-La county". Toledo Blade. January 11, 2014.

## External links[edit]

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