Mongols in China#Distribution

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The Mongols in China are divided between autonomous regions and provinces as follows:

• 68.72%: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
• 11.52%: Liaoning Province
• 2.96%: Jilin Province
• 2.92%: Hebei Province
• 2.58%: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
• 2.43%: Heilongjiang Province
• 1.48%: Qinghai Province
• 1.41%: Henan Province
• 5.98%: Rest of PRC

Besides the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, there are other Mongol autonomous administrative subdivisions in China.

Prefecture level:

• Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (in Qinghai)
• Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (in Xinjiang)
• Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (in Xinjiang)

County level:

• Weichang Manchu and Mongol Autonomous County (in Hebei)
• Harqin Left Mongol Autonomous County (in Liaoning)
• Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County (in Liaoning)
• Qian Gorlos Mongol Autonomous County (in Jilin)
• Dorbod Mongol Autonomous County (in Heilongjiang)
• Subei Mongol Autonomous County (in Gansu)
• Henan Mongol Autonomous County (in Qinghai)
• Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County (in Xinjiang)

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China classifies different Mongolian groups like Buryats and Oirats into the same single category as Mongol along with Inner Mongols. The Chinese government also classifies the Tuvans as Mongols, despite Tuvans being a Turkic, non-Mongolic ethnic group.Mongush, M. V. "Tuvans of Mongolia and China." International Journal of Central Asian Studies, 1 (1996), 225–243. Talat Tekin, ed. Seoul: Inst. of Asian Culture & Development. The official language used for all of these Mongols in China is a literary standard based on the Chahar dialect of Mongol."Öbür mongγul ayalγu bol dumdadu ulus-un mongγul kelen-ü saγuri ayalγu bolqu büged dumdadu ulus-un mongγul kelen-ü barimǰiy-a abiy-a ni čaqar aman ayalγun-du saγurilaγsan bayidaγ." (Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 85).

The ethnic classification might be inaccurate due to lack of information regarding the registering policy.[http://www.lupm.org/mn/pages/101026mn.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201133320/http://www.lupm.org/mn/pages/101026mn.htm |date=2018-12-01 }} y (Mongolian): Millions of Han Chinese of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region registered as "Mongol" and "Manchu" according to Chinese policy since the 1980s. There is not enough information about Chinese ethnic minorities due to the government policy.[http://sodonmedeelel.blog.gogo.mn/read/entry464126 Өвөр Монголын хүн ам] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203041738/http://sodonmedeelel.blog.gogo.mn/read/entry464126 |date=2013-12-03 }} (Mongolian)

Some populations officially classified as Mongols by the government of the People's Republic of China do not currently speak any form of Mongolic language. Such populations include the Sichuan Mongols (most of whom speak a form of Naic language), the Yunnan Mongols (most of whom speak a form of Loloish language), and the Mongols of Henan Mongol Autonomous County in Qinghai (most of whom speak Amdo Tibetan and/or Chinese).{{cn|date=August 2024}}

{{As of|2023|July}}, official publications have avoided references to Mongolians in China and instead used the term "northern frontier culture" (bei jiang wenhua).{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Bethany |date=2024-08-29 |title='Northern frontier culture': How China is erasing 'Mongolia' from Mongolian culture |url=https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/northern-frontier-culture-how-china-is-erasing-mongolia-from-mongolian-culture/ |access-date=2024-08-31 |website=The Strategist |publisher=Australian Strategic Policy Institute |language=en-AU |archive-date=2024-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240829083307/https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/northern-frontier-culture-how-china-is-erasing-mongolia-from-mongolian-culture/ |url-status=live }}

Among the Mongols of China, mitochondrial haplogroup D was in first place (27.07%), followed by mitochondrial haplogroups B (11.60%), F (10.77%), Z (8.01%), G (7, 73%), C (6.91%), A (6.08%), N (5.25%) and M7 (5.25%). Other mitochondrial haplogroups (HV, H, I, M8, M9, M10, M11, R, T, U, W and Y) were sporadically distributed among the studied Mongols of China with frequencies of no more than 1.66%.

Guang-Lin He et al. (2022) examined a sample of current Mongols of China (n=175, including n=97 from Inner Mongolia, n=27 from Liaoning, n=10 from Heilongjiang, n=10 from Jilin, n=3 from Qinghai, n=3 from Xinjiang, and n=25 from elsewhere in China) and found different haplogroup O subclades (107/175 = 61.1% in total) to be the most frequently observed Y-DNA haplogroup:

• O1-F265/M1354 12.0% (21/175)
• O1a1a-M307.1/P203.1 3.4% (6/175)
• O1b-M268 8.6% (15/175)
• O1b1a-M1470 5.7% (10/175)
• O1b1a1-PK4 2.3% (4/175)
• O1b1a2-Page59 3.4% (6/175)
• O1b2a1a-F1204 2.9% (5/175)
• O1b2a1a1-CTS713 2.3% (4/175)
• O1b2a1a3a-CTS1215 0.6% (1/175)
• O2a-M324 49.1% (86/175)
• O2a1-L127.1 21.7% (38/175)
• O2a1a1a1b-F854 0.6% (1/175)
• O2a1c-IMS-JST002611 21.1% (37/175)
• O2a1c1a1a1a1-F325 16.6% (29/175)
• O2a1c1a2-F449 4.6% (8/175)
• O2a2-P201 27.4% (48/175)
• O2a2a1a-CTS445 4.6% (8/175)
• O2a2a1a1a-M159 0.6% (1/175)
• O2a2a1a2a-F1276 2.9% (5/175)
• O2a2a1a2a1a2-N5 1.7% (3/175)
• O2a2b-P164 22.9% (40/175)
• O2a2b1-M134 21.1% (37/175)
• O2a2b1a1-M117 12.0% (21/175)
• O2a2b1a2-F114 9.1% (16/175)
• O2a2b2a2-AM01845/F706 1.7% (3/175)

The second most frequently observed Y-DNA haplogroup among the sampled Mongols from China was C2 (22.9%, including 16.6% "Northern" i.e. Mongolian/Siberian C2b1a, 1.7% typically Mongolic C2c1a1a1-M407, and 4.6% "Southern" i.e. East Asian C2c1(xC2c1a1a1)), followed by N1-CTS3750 (6.3%, including 2.9% N1a2a1a~, 1.1% N1a2b2a1c~, 1.1% N1b2a2~, 0.6% N1a1a1a1a3a, and 0.6% N1b1), Q (4.6%, including 4.0% Q1a1a1 and 0.6% Q2a1a1), R1a1a1b2a-Z94 (2.3%), and D-M533 (1.1%). Y-chromosomal haplogroup E1b1b1a1b2 (V22) was observed in one Mongol individual from Hohhot, G2a2b2a1a1a2a1a (L654.2) was observed in one Mongol individual from Alxa League, and I2a1b2a1a1a1 (BY128/Y5596) was observed in one Mongol individual from Hinggan League.Guang-Lin He, Meng-Ge Wang, Xing Zou, Hui-Yuan Yeh, Chang-Hui Liu, Chao Liu, Gang Chen, and Chuan-Chao Wang, "Extensive ethnolinguistic diversity at the crossroads of North China and South Siberia reflects multiple sources of genetic diversity." Journal of Systematics and Evolution 00 (0): 1–21, 2022. doi: 10.1111/jse.12827

• Abaga

• Abaganar
• Aohans
• Baarins
• Buryats
• Chahars
• Gorlos
• Jalaids
• Jaruud
• Khalkha
• Kharchin
• Khishigten
• Khorchin
• Khuuchid
• Muumyangan
• Naimans
• Oirats
• Dzungar
• Khoid
• Khoshut
• Olot
• Torghut
• Upper Mongols
• Onnigud
• Ordos
• Sichuan Mongols
• Sunud
• Urad

Not all groups of people related to the medieval Mongols are officially classified as Mongols under the current system. Other official ethnic groups in China which speak Mongolic languages include:

• the Dongxiang of Gansu Province
• the Monguor of Qinghai and Gansu Provinces
• the Daur of Inner Mongolia
• the Bonan of Gansu Province
• some of the Yugurs of Gansu Province (other Yugurs speak a Turkic language)
• the Kuangjia Hui of Qinghai Province

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Mongols living in China face a multitude of Anti-Mongolian discriminations by the current Chinese government on the goal of assimilating the Mongolian population into the Han population.{{Cite news |title=China's push to create a single national identity |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/china/2023/09/14/chinas-push-to-create-a-single-national-identity |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-09-15 |issn=0013-0613 |quote=The decline of Mongolian is part of a years-long push by the central government to assimilate ethnic minorities across China. |archive-date=2023-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230915003440/https://www.economist.com/china/2023/09/14/chinas-push-to-create-a-single-national-identity |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Bagshaw |first=Eryk |date=2023-07-21 |title='I might die or be murdered': The province fearing it will be wiped out by Beijing |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/i-might-die-or-be-murdered-the-province-fearing-it-will-be-wiped-out-by-beijing-20230718-p5dp8p.html |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |archive-date=2023-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721195401/https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/i-might-die-or-be-murdered-the-province-fearing-it-will-be-wiped-out-by-beijing-20230718-p5dp8p.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last=Togochog |first=Enghebatu |date=2006 |title=Ecological Migration and Human Rights |url=https://www.hrichina.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/CRF.4.2006/CRF-2006-4_Ecological.pdf |journal=China Rights Forum |issue=4 |pages=26–30 |via=hrichina |access-date=2023-05-31 |archive-date=2021-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210603173443/https://www.hrichina.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/CRF.4.2006/CRF-2006-4_Ecological.pdf |url-status=live }} Some instances of discrimination include: barring teaching the Mongolian language in schools, arresting Mongols on Mongolian soil, and forced evictions of Mongolians in China.{{Cite web |title=Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center |url=https://www.smhric.org/Hada/Evict_1.htm |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=www.smhric.org |archive-date=2022-06-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612013243/http://www.smhric.org/Hada/Evict_1.htm |url-status=live }}

Recently the NPC mandated that "minority language-medium education is unconstitutional (People's Daily)," enforcing this within Inner Mongolian schools, banning the teaching of the Mongolian language, along with riding of different kinds of Mongolian material that are deemed to de-emphasize Chinese nationality and common identity.{{Cite web |title=Mongolians in China Face 'Cultural Genocide' as Language, Culture Swept Aside: Group |url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/genocide-03252021093922.html |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Radio Free Asia |language=en |archive-date=2023-05-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530215606/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/genocide-03252021093922.html |url-status=live }} In 2023, a book on the history of the Mongols was banned for "historical nihilism."{{Cite web |date=3 September 2023 |title=China bans book about the early history of the Mongolian people |url=https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/mongolian-book-banned-09032023090748.html |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=Radio Free Asia |language=en |archive-date=2023-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905041531/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/mongolian-book-banned-09032023090748.html |url-status=live }}

Most recently on May 3, 2023, the Chinese government arrested Mr. Lhamjab Borjigin, a Mongolian writer, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. This isn't the first time China has made these kinds of arrests on foreign soil against Mongols either, as this is the fifth occurrence.

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The Chinese government has even gone as far as accusing Mongolian herders/nomads of causing climate change in order to justify the forced relocation of Mongolians out of their ancestral land. Under the "ecological migration" policy, the Chinese government has moved thousands of Mongolians into city/urban areas away from their home grasslands on the basis that the Mongolian nomadic lifestyle is destroying the grasslands and causing climate change symptoms like desertification and sandstorms. The Chinese government also justifies the movement of Mongols, calling it poverty relief, as hundreds of thousands of Mongols live in extreme poverty, however many of the displaced Mongols actually fall deeper into poverty, while also feeling out of their element and feeling like outcasts in their new homes. The basis of moving the Mongols by the claim of climate/environment protection is one that lacks support, as it has been found that nomadic lifestyles, like that of the grassland Mongols, actually harm the environment far less than permanent settlement lifestyles.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-05 |title=A Nomadic Lifestyle Protects the Rainforest — But Western Culture is Ruining It |url=https://www.greenmatters.com/climate-action/why-is-the-nomadic-lifestyle-good-for-the-rainforest-environment |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Green Matters |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531225521/https://www.greenmatters.com/climate-action/why-is-the-nomadic-lifestyle-good-for-the-rainforest-environment |url-status=live }}

• Buren Bayaer, singer, composer and a disc jockey
• Ulanhu, politician, former chairman of Inner Mongolia, former vice president of the People's Republic
• Bayanqolu, Communist Party secretary of Jilin, former party secretary of Ningbo city
• Demchugdongrub, Qing dynasty prince and puppet ruler of Mengjiang.
• Uyunqimg, former vice-chair of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
• Fu Ying, deputy foreign minister, former ambassador to the United Kingdom, Australia and the Philippines
• Li Siguang, geologist, founder of China's geomechanics
• Yang Shixian, chemist, chancellor of Nankai University
• Mengke Bateer, CBA and NBA basketball player
• Buyunchaokete, tennis player
• Bao Xishun, one of the tallest people in the world
• Tengger, a pop/rock musician
• Uudam, child singer
• Huugjilt, man wrongfully executed in 1996
• Zhang Xiaoping
• Chinggeltei (1924–2013), linguist, one of the world's few experts on the Khitan language
• Jalsan, linguist and Buddhist leader
• Batdorj-in Baasanjab, actor
• Xiao Qian, academic
• Bai Xue, lawyer and legal academic
• Bai Yansong, TV anchor
• Yangwei Linghua, singer and female vocal of Phoenix Legend
• Han Lei, pop singer
• Wang Lijun, disgraced police chief and political figure
• Bai Wenqi, lieutenant general of the PLA Air Force
• Ulan, deputy party chief of Hunan Province

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