Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County (Chinese: 新平彝族傣族自治县; pinyin: Xīnpíng Yízú Dǎizú Zìzhìxiàn) is an autonomous county located in the central part of Yunnan Province, China.
Xinping Yi and Dai Autonomous County has 2 subdistricts, 4 towns and 6 townships.
[2] The Xinping County Gazetteer (1993:106, 118) lists the following Yi and Hani subgroups.
[11] They numbered 40,890 (15.54%) of the total population of Xinping County as of 2000, and include the following subgroups.
[12] These three groups are known as the 花腰傣, or 'Flowery-waisted Tai' due to the style of their women's clothing.