Executive summary by darmansjah
The majority of the inhabitants of the county are from the Hani ethnic group. The GDP of Yuanyang county in 2002 was 630 million Yuan. To the south of Old Yuanyang, the town of Panzhihua is positioned near the top of another major valley of rice-terraces. The town of Old Yuanyang is a Hani minority settlement atop a ridge of the Ailao mountain range at an elevation of around 1570 metres. The vast majority of the ethnic minority women in Yuanyang county still wear traditional clothes as their daily attire.
