Bayi
巴宜区 • བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས།
Chagyib, Nyingchi
District
Nyang River in Bayi District
Nyang River in Bayi District
Location of Bayi District (red) in Nyingchi (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Location of Bayi District (red) in Nyingchi (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region
Bayi is located in Tibet
Bayi
Bayi
Location of the seat in the Tibet Autonomous Region
Bayi is located in China
Bayi
Bayi
Bayi (China)
Coordinates (Nyingchi municipal government): 29°38′56″N 94°21′43″E / 29.649°N 94.362°E / 29.649; 94.362
CountryChina
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityNyingchi
District seatJomo Subdistrict
Area
 • Total8,558.23 km2 (3,304.35 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total84,254
 • Density9.8/km2 (25/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.bayiqu.gov.cn
Bayi
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese巴宜区
Traditional Chinese巴宜區
Tibetan name
Tibetanབྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས།

Bayi or Chagyib District (巴宜区 or བྲག་ཡིབ་ཆུས།), formerly Nyingchi County, is a District of Nyingchi in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Bayi Town, the administrative capital of Nyingchi, is located within the district.

Geography

Bayi is located in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Both steep cliffs and flat valleys exist in the area. The average altitude is 3000 metres above sea level. "The lowest places are just around 1,000 metres above sea level."[2]

There are many scenic places in or near Bayi.

"The Seche La Mountain Scenic Spot, in the east of Nyingchi County, is a part of the Nyainqentanglha Mountain Range, the watershed of the Nyang River and the Polung Zangbo River. The Sichuan-Tibetan Highway passes by. Standing at the mountain pass at 4,728 meters above sea level, one can admire the sunrise, sea of clouds, endless forest and the grand Namjagbarwa Peak."[3]

Güncang township and Pelung Township by the Sichuan-Tibet Highway are home to the Moinba ethnic group.[4]

Administrative divisions

Bayi District contains 2 subdistricts, 4 towns, 2 townships, and 1 ethnic township.

Name Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Population (2010)[5] Notes
Subdistricts
Baimagang Subdistrict 白玛岗街道 Báimǎgǎng Jiēdào པད་མ་སྒང་ཁྲོམ་ལམ་། pad ma sgang khrom lam split from Chagyib Town in 2016.
Jomo Subdistrict 觉木街道 Juémù Jiēdào ཇོ་མོ་ཁྲོམ་ལམ་། jo mo khrom lam split from Chagyib Town in 2016.
Towns
Nyingchi Town 林芝镇 Línzhī zhèn ཉིང་ཁྲི་གྲོང་རྡལ། nying khri grong rdal 3,267
Bêba Town 百巴镇 Bǎibā zhèn སྤྲེ་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ། spre pa grong rdal 3,748
Chagyib Town
(Bayi) 		八一镇 Bāyī zhèn བྲག་ཡིབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། brag yib grong rdal 39,110 Former Bayi Subdistrict
Lunang Town 鲁朗镇 Lǔlǎng zhèn ཀླུ་ནང་གྲོང་རྡལ། klu nang grong rdal 1,588
Townships
Puqu Township 布久乡 Bùjiǔ xiāng བུ་ཆུ་ཤང་། bu chu shang 3,128
Mairi Township 米瑞乡 Mǐruì xiāng སྨད་རི་ཤང་། smad ri shang 2,247
Ethnic township
Güncang Monba Ethnic Township 更章门巴族乡 Gēngzhāng Ménbāzú xiāng དགུན་ཚང་མོན་པ་མི་རིགས་ཤང་། dgun tshang mon pa mi rigs shang 1,614

Culture

Buchu Monastery is located about 28 km (17 mi) south of Bayi Town. Lamaling Monastery is located in Puqu Township.[6]

"The Benri La Mountain near the Dagzê Village on the western slope of the mountain is a sacred site of the Tibetan Bön Sect and one of the four great holy mountains in Tibet."[3] It is located in the southeast of Pulha, north of the Yarlung Tsangpo River. Pilgrimages attract devotees throughout the year. "Every tenth day of the eighth month of the Tibetan calendar, a grand mountain worshiping activity is held, which is called "Nangbolhasoi," meaning "seeking for treasures from immortals."[3] "Each year during the Sagadawa Festival the pilgrims will come to worship and circle around the holy mountain." Seven Bon temples were built around the mountain.[7]

Climate

Bayi District has a mild subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb). "Under the influence of the monsoon from the Indian Ocean, the area has neither scorching summer nor freezing winter. With ample rainfall, the air is quite humid. The sunshine is long and the frost is short."[2]


Climate data for Nyingchi County (1971−2000)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 8.3
(46.9) 		9.5
(49.1) 		13.0
(55.4) 		16.4
(61.5) 		19.2
(66.6) 		21.4
(70.5) 		22.1
(71.8) 		22.0
(71.6) 		20.3
(68.5) 		17.3
(63.1) 		13.4
(56.1) 		9.8
(49.6) 		16.1
(60.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −5
(23) 		−2.7
(27.1) 		0.6
(33.1) 		3.4
(38.1) 		6.7
(44.1) 		10.3
(50.5) 		11.5
(52.7) 		11.0
(51.8) 		9.5
(49.1) 		5.3
(41.5) 		−0.6
(30.9) 		−4.4
(24.1) 		3.8
(38.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.6
(0.06) 		4.4
(0.17) 		17.0
(0.67) 		47.1
(1.85) 		74.3
(2.93) 		125.2
(4.93) 		133.9
(5.27) 		123.3
(4.85) 		114.6
(4.51) 		39.9
(1.57) 		5.3
(0.21) 		1.4
(0.06) 		688.0
(27.09)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 2.8 6.0 11.5 17.3 19.6 23.0 22.8 21.5 22.2 14.0 4.0 1.7 166.4
Source: Weather China

Transport

Plans exist for the construction of a railway from Lhasa to Nyingchi. Construction work is expected to start in September 2014, and to take 6 years.[8]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "林芝市第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Nyingchi. 2021-06-17.
  2. ^ a b "Tibet travel guide of Nyingchi Region, Bayi Town". Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  3. ^ a b c "The Seche La Mountain Scenic Spot". Tibet Travel Service, Tibet Tour. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  4. ^ "Moinba Ethnic Group and its customs". Tibet Travel Guide-Let's Travel Tibet. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  5. ^ Census Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China; Population and Employment Statistics Division of the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China (2012). 中国2010人口普查分乡、镇、街道资料 (1 ed.). Beijing: China Statistics Print. ISBN 978-7-5037-6660-2.
  6. ^ "Puqu Lama Ling Monastery". Tibet Travel Guide-Let's Travel Tibet. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  7. ^ "Benri Mountain". At0086.com. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  8. ^ 拉萨至林芝铁路预计今年九月开建. huochepiao.com. 2014-01-15. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 18, 2014. (Construction of the Lhasa-Nyingchi railway is planned to start in September of this year), 2014-1-15

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