10.2003 - Source: UK Home Office

Zhuang/ Chuang ("Country Report - October 2003") [#49232],  [ID 4407]

"6.217. The largest ethnic minority in China, with 15.489 million people, the group is scarcely documented in English-language reports. [16a][16j][16z] Mainly located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and throughout Yunnan province (south-west China). [16z] Indications are that the Zhuang are well integrated with the Han population of Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. [16a] The Zhuang are also heavily commingled with the other ethnic nationality groups of Yunnan and Guangxi, such as the Miao and Dong. [16j] Most Zhuang are peasants, still reliant upon agriculture as a way of life. [16j][16z]

6.218. Historically the Zhuang developed from a branch of the Yue people, who had a flourishing state of their own in ancient China. [16z] The Zhuang are known to use a number of other names to describe themselves and are held by the PRC central authorities to have a laudable tradition of revolutionary spirit; however, there are no reports of secessionist moves. [16j] Culturally, the Zhuang are very similar to the Han. [16j]"

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