Sandu Shui Autonomous County

Administrative divisions

Sandu administers the following 2 subdistricts and 6 towns:

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Geography

Sandu County's urban center is located 68 km from Duyun, the administrative center of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, and 177 km from the provincial capital of Guiyang.

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.

Climate

|Jan record high C = 25.8 |Jan record low C = −2.9 |Feb record high C = 32.3 |Feb record low C = −1.9 |Mar record high C = 36.1 |Mar record low C = −0.5 |Apr record high C = 37.1 |Apr record low C = 5.7 |May record high C = 36.4 |May record low C = 7.2 |Jun record high C = 37.5 |Jun record low C = 12.5 |Jul record high C = 39.2 |Jul record low C = 15.4 |Aug record high C = 38.8 |Aug record low C = 17.1 |Sep record high C = 38.4 |Sep record low C = 11.9 |Oct record high C = 35.7 |Oct record low C = 6.4 |Nov record high C = 32.0 |Nov record low C = 0.3 |Dec record high C = 28.1 |Dec record low C = −3.5

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%.

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.

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.

Transport

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

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