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Sandu Shui Autonomous County - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 25°59′01″N 107°52′10″E / 25.9836°N 107.8694°E

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Sandu County 三都县 · Sanyduy xianq
Autonomous county
三都水族自治县 Sanyduy Suijzuf Ziqziqxianq Sandu Shui Autonomous County
Shui ethnic houses
Sandu Location of the seat in Guizhou Show map of Guizhou Sandu Sandu (Southwest China) Show map of Southwest China
Coordinates (Sandu County government): 25°59′01″N 107°52′10″E / 25.9836°N 107.8694°E / 25.9836; 107.8694
Country	China
Province	Guizhou
Autonomous prefecture	Qiannan
County seat	Sanhe Subdistrict
Area
• Autonomous county	2,384 km² (920 sq mi)
Elevation	675 m (2,215 ft)
Highest elevation ^[1] (Gengding Mountain)	1,665.5 m (5,464.2 ft)
Lowest elevation ^[1] (Duliu River)	303 m (994 ft)
Population (2020 census)^[2]
• Autonomous county	276,347
• Density	120/km² (300/sq mi)
• Urban ^[3]	177,882
• Ethnic minorities	367,100
• Shui people	261,300
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	558100
Area code	0854
Website	www.sandu.gov.cn

Sandu Shui Autonomous County (Chinese: 三都水族自治县; pinyin: Sāndū Shuǐzú Zìzhìxiàn; Bouyei: Sanyduy Suijzuf Ziqziqxianq) is an autonomous county in the southeast of Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and the only Shui Autonomous County in China; 63% of Shui in China live in this county, which is the heartland of the Shui people.^[4] Per a 2022 county government publication, Sandu has a population of 381,000, 97% of whom belong to ethnic minorities, and 67% of the total population are Shui.^[5]

It is one of the poorest counties of Guizhou.^[6] Most of the county is forested and it is noted for its clean air.^[7]^[8]

Administrative divisions

Sandu administers the following 2 subdistricts and 6 towns:^[9]

Sanhe Subdistrict (Chinese: 三合街道)
Fengyu Subdistrict [zh] (Chinese: 凤羽街道)
Dahe [zh] (Chinese: 大河镇)
Pu'an [zh] (Chinese: 普安镇)
Dujiang [zh] (Chinese: 都江镇)
Zhonghe [zh] (Chinese: 中和镇)
Zhouqin [zh] (Chinese: 周覃镇)
Jiuqian [zh] (Chinese: 九阡镇)

Geography

Sandu County's urban center is located 68 kilometres (42 mi) from Duyun, the administrative center of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and 177 kilometres (110 mi) from the provincial capital of Guiyang.^[7]

All of Sandu belongs to the watershed of the Liu River which flows into the Pearl River. The Duliu River has its source in Sandu and flows into the Liu River. The county is rather mountainous with Karst landscape resulting in large locale temperature and climate differences. Antimony is mined commercially in Sandu.^[1]

Climate

Climate data for Sandu, elevation 448 m (1,470 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	25.8 (78.4)	32.3 (90.1)	35.6 (96.1)	37.1 (98.8)	36.4 (97.5)	37.5 (99.5)	39.2 (102.6)	38.8 (101.8)	38.4 (101.1)	35.7 (96.3)	32.0 (89.6)	28.1 (82.6)	39.2 (102.6)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	11.8 (53.2)	15.1 (59.2)	19.0 (66.2)	24.6 (76.3)	28.0 (82.4)	30.2 (86.4)	32.2 (90.0)	32.6 (90.7)	30.0 (86.0)	24.7 (76.5)	20.4 (68.7)	14.8 (58.6)	23.6 (74.5)
Daily mean °C (°F)	7.9 (46.2)	10.6 (51.1)	14.1 (57.4)	19.2 (66.6)	22.7 (72.9)	25.2 (77.4)	26.7 (80.1)	26.3 (79.3)	23.8 (74.8)	19.3 (66.7)	14.8 (58.6)	9.8 (49.6)	18.4 (65.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	5.5 (41.9)	7.7 (45.9)	11.1 (52.0)	15.7 (60.3)	19.2 (66.6)	22.2 (72.0)	23.4 (74.1)	22.8 (73.0)	20.2 (68.4)	16.1 (61.0)	11.6 (52.9)	6.9 (44.4)	15.2 (59.4)
Record low °C (°F)	−2.9 (26.8)	−1.9 (28.6)	−0.5 (31.1)	5.7 (42.3)	7.2 (45.0)	12.5 (54.5)	15.4 (59.7)	17.1 (62.8)	11.9 (53.4)	6.4 (43.5)	0.3 (32.5)	−3.5 (25.7)	−3.5 (25.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	37.0 (1.46)	36.9 (1.45)	69.7 (2.74)	118.7 (4.67)	205.1 (8.07)	278.8 (10.98)	224.5 (8.84)	162.1 (6.38)	90.5 (3.56)	76.9 (3.03)	47.3 (1.86)	27.4 (1.08)	1,374.9 (54.12)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	13.2	11.7	16.0	16.7	18.1	18.3	17.1	15.1	10.6	11.7	9.8	9.7	168
Average snowy days	1.9	0.7	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.5	3.2
Average relative humidity (%)	78	76	78	78	80	83	82	81	80	81	79	76	79
Mean monthly sunshine hours	34.0	48.8	62.5	87.6	103.2	87.0	139.1	161.6	129.0	90.3	82.8	63.0	1,088.9
Percent possible sunshine	10	15	17	23	25	21	33	40	35	25	26	19	24
Source: China Meteorological Administration^[10]^[11]

Demographics

As of 2021, Sandu Shui Autonomous County has a registered hukou population of 380,871, of which, 96,869 belong to urban areas, and the remaining 284,002 belong to rural areas, giving the autonomous county an urbanization rate of 25.43%.^[12]

Per a 2022 county government publication, 67% of the autonomous county's population is ethnically Shui, another 30% belong to other recognized ethnic minorities, and just 3% of the population is ethnically Han Chinese.^[5]

The average annual disposable income for urban residents as of 2021 totaled 35,874 renminbi (RMB), a 9% increase from the previous year, and the second highest among county-level divisions in the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.^[12]

Transport

Sandu is served by the Guiyang–Guangzhou high-speed railway, with a travel time of 50 minutes to Guiyang.^[7] It is also connected by G76 Xiamen–Chengdu Expressway and several provincial expressways.^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "三都水族自治县".
^ "黔南州第七次全国人口普查公报（第二号）——地区人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Qiannan Prefecture. 2021-05-26.
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^ ^a ^b 行政区划 [Administrative divisions] (in Chinese). Sandu Shui Autonomous County People's Government. 2022-05-17. Archived from the original on 2022-07-26. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
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^ ^a ^b ^c "三都水族自治县人民政府门户网站-三都简介". www.sandu.gov.cn. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
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^ 2021年统计用区划代码（三都水族自治县） [2021 Statistical Division Codes (Sandu Shui Autonomous County)] (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-07-14. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
^ ^a ^b 人口就业 [Population and employment] (in Chinese). Sandu Shui Autonomous County People's Government. 2022-05-17. Archived from the original on 2022-06-27. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
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