Dazu, Chongqing


Dazu District is a district of Chongqing, China, bordering Sichuan province to the northwest. It is where the famous Dazu Rock Carvings, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located. Dazu Lotus Manor is a tourist attraction with many lotus plants, some bred from seeds sent to space.

History

In the late 19th century, Dazu was the site of major violence led by the Elder Brothers Society against local Catholic Christians who were accused of controlling the local coal market, and resented for the large church built between two major temples devoted to Lingguan on the main market square. This church was destroyed multiple times in the 1880s and 1890s. The violence displaced thousands of people, with one incident, in 1890 leading to the deaths of 12 Christians who refused to bow to statues of Lingguan.
In October 2011, Dazu County and Shuangqiao District were merged to form the new Dazu District.

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Demographics

According to the Seventh National Census in 2020, the city's Permanent Population was 834,592. Compared with 721,359 people in the Sixth National Census in 2010, an increase of 113,233 people, an increase of 15.70%, an average annual growth rate of 1.47%, and an average birth rate of 8.063% in the next ten years.The male resident population was 424206, accounting for 50.83%; The female resident population was 410,386, accounting for 49.17%. The sex ratio of the total resident population was 103.37, which was 0.23 lower than that of the sixth national census in 2010, and the male to female ratio gradually reached an equilibrium level.