Economy

Zhuang's beautiful maiden in ChongzuoForestry and agriculture are two of Chongzuo's biggest industries. Oranges, rice, beans, corn, cassava, cinnamon, bananas, vegetables, durian, pineapples, longan, and tea are all major crops, but sugarcane is the center of Chongzuo agriculture. Farm raised animals include beef and dairy cattle, sheep, ducks, chickens, geese, and bees. Aquaculture for fish is also big. Chinese medicinal herbs are picked from the wild and also grown. Important mineral resources include manganese, gold, ferberite, coal, barite, bentonite, uranium, and vanadium. It is China's biggest manganese producer and the world's biggest producer of bentonite. Other industries include export infrastructure, paper, forest products such as timber and turpentine, building materials, pharmaceuticals, and electronics manufacturing.

Demographics

Chongzuo's population is 2,347,700. 88% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group. The rest include Han, Yao, and other ethnic groups.English NameSimplifiedTraditionalPinyinZhuangAreaPopulation(2010 or 2012)Jiangzhou District江州区江州區Jiāngzhōu QūGyanghcouh Gih2,951384,905( Zhuang people is 315,020 - According to the official statistics, 2012-03-15)Fusui County扶绥县扶綏縣Fúsuí XiànFuzsuih Yen2,836432,000 (81.96% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group, 2010)Ningming County宁明县寧明縣Níngmíng XiànNingzmingz Yen3,779412,300 (77.6% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group, 2010)Longzhou County龙州县龍州縣Lóngzhōu XiànLungzcouh Yen2,318260,200 (95.8% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group, 2010)Daxin County大新县大新縣Dàxīn XiànDasinh Yen2,742359,800 (97.2% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group, 2010)Tiandeng County天等县天等縣Tiānděng XiànDenhdwngj Yen2,159429,200 (98.81% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group, 2010)Pingxiang凭祥市憑祥市Píngxiáng ShìBingzsiengz Si650106,400 (83.5% of the people belong to the Zhuang ethnic group, 2010)These figures are based on the following official statistics:

History

Chongzuo government buildingsChongzuo is one of the earliest centers of Zhuang culture. Important sites dating back to the stone age have been found here. The Rock Paintings of Hua Mountain along the Ming River at Huashan date back 1800 to 2500 year and are one of the largest groups of pictographs in China and in the world. On several cliff faces are hundreds of large red pictographs depicting a large battle. The red pigment is still bright and vivid and individual figures, weapons, and animals are easy to distinguish. The cliffs, part of the sacred Frog Mountain, were important site to the early Zhuang.In 214 BC, during the Qin dynasty, Chongzuo was part of the Xiang (象郡) commandry. Chinese general Feng Zicai beat back a French attack here at the Battle of Bang Bo in 1885. Sun Yat-sen fired the first cannon shot of the anti-Qing revolution in Chongzuo in 1907. In the 1930s, after fomenting rebellion in other parts of Guangxi, Deng Xiaoping helped organize the peasants and workers here during the Longzhou rebellion and eventually formed the Red Army's 8th Army. Later, in 1979, the Chinese army invaded Vietnam from here.