Kucong

There are around 80,000 Kucong people, living primarily in the Mojiang, Xinping, and Mengla counties of China's Yunnan Province.

[1] The Kucong are not recognized by the Chinese government as an official minority nationality, but have been considered.

[5] 1989 Tiananmen Square protests leader Wang Zhengyun was an ethnic Kucong and at the time a student of the Central University for Nationalities.

He also had the distinction of being only member of the Kucong ethnicity minority group to be studying at a university.

[6] Zhengyun was arrested in July 1989 and released two years later to return to his village in the Yunnan countryside.