Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
The Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu ( Tibetan: Wylie ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ romanization by: yus hru'u ) of the Tibetans is located in southwest China's Qinghai Province, and belongs to the Tibetan cultural region of Kham. Its administrative seat is the large village Kyegu Do ( Jyekundo ) in Yushu county. Yushu has an area of 210,300 km ². Leading to a significant amount ( about 25%) is hostile to settlement. But the populated areas are used mainly only in nomadic pastoralism, so that most of the population lives scattered over the area.
The 9th Panchen Lama Thubten Choekyi Nyima, who was 1924 initially fled for domestic political reasons from the Central Tibetan city of Shigatse in Inner Mongolia and then to the Qinghai / Amdo, held in the hope of a speedy return to Shigatse from 1936 in Yushu on, where he died in Jyekundo ( Gyegu ) on 1 December 1937.
Population and Economy
In the census of 2000, the Yushu County had 262 661 inhabitants ( population density. 1.39 inhab / km ²), accounted for on the circle Yushu about 80,000. Due to the Chinese reporting system that includes only the hukou households, there is a slight covered that already the capital, the greater community Gyegu alone now 50-80000 inhabitants.
The majority of the residents of Yushu come from a nomadic background ( Drokpa ), since the largest part of the district over 4,000 meters high and is thus only transhumance may have as a basis. Agriculture is found only in the deeper layers of the circles Yushu, Chidu and Nangqên while Gyegu was in ancient times a major trade center of Eastern Tibet and is again today.
Populations in Yushu
The ethnic composition of the population in 2005 stood as follows:
This statistic includes only the registered population, not the temporary inhabitants ( Liudong Renkou ), which are estimated at about 50-60,000 for the entire autonomous district.
Administrative Divisions
The Autonomous District is composed of an independent city and five counties. These are:
Sources: for square footage the Statistical Yearbook 1950-1999
Earthquake
On April 14, 2010 at 7:49 local time clock, shook a violent earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter scale, the Yushu region, most of the city Kyego Do ( Gyegu ), also Jyekundo destroyed. The quake caused numerous victims.