10.2003 - Source: UK Home Office

Yi (Lolo) ("Country Report - October 2003") [#49232],  [ID 4413]

"6.225. Estimated at between 5.5 million people and 6.572 million. [16q][16aa] The Yis are can be found throughout Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces (south-western China) [16aa] however they mainly inhabit the mountainous areas of south west China, primarily in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province. [16d] The Yi are made up many tribal groupings and have many names for themselves, primarily the Lolo, Nosu, Misa, Lasu, with the name Panduo used by the Yi to indicate the ethnic group as a whole (as opposed to the Han name of Yi). [16aa]

6.226. The Yi are primarily peasant farmers, who supplement their diet with hunting. They have literacy tradition (ancient Yi script) which upheld by the bimo (shaman priest) of the tribe. The Yi are keen to preserve the YI language and script as a focal point of Yi culture. They wish to take on the autonomy offered by the PRC authorities, but are lacking in resources to do so effectively. [20j]"

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