tianzhuxianIntroduction:Introduction to Tianzhu: Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County (Tianzhu County) is the first county in Wuwei City, Gansu Province. The county is the first region to implement ethnic regional autonomy after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Tianzhu, Tibetan is called Huarui, meaning a heroic tribe. From the Xia Dynasty to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was successively stationed in the grazing land of the Yi, Yue, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups. Since the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was included in the territory of the Han Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, a multi-ethnic settlement with Tubo (now Tibetan) as the main ethnic group was gradually formed. Tianzhu County is in the central part of Gansu Province, in the south of Wuwei City, in the Hexi Corridor and the eastern end of Qilian. It is connected to Jingtai County in the east, Menyuan County, Huzhu County and Ledu County in Qinghai Province, Yongdeng County in the south, Liangzhou District and Gulang County in the north, and Sunan County in the northwest. By the end of 2011, Tianzhu County had a total area of 7,149 square kilometers, including 9 towns and 10 townships; household registration was 215,200, with 28 ethnic groups, of which Tibetans accounted for 97.14% of ethnic minorities.