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The Eastern Xiangxi Miao of China

The Eastern Xiangxi Miao of China, numbering approximately 137,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Xong subgroup of the Miao people of western Hunan, especially Jishou, Longshan, Guzhang, and Luxi in the Xiangxi region. They mostly adhere to Chinese Folk Religion and Eastern Xiangxi Miao is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Miao, Eastern Xiangxi

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: China
People Cluster: Miao / Hmong
Primary Language(s): Eastern Xiangxi Miao (muq)
Primary Religion(s): Chinese Folk Religion
Population: 137,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG006746
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Chinese Folk Religion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

94%
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Chinese Folk Religion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Eastern Xiangxi Miao
Language Family: Hmong-Mien

100%
%
Miao, Eastern Xiangxi Speakers

Media Resources in Eastern Xiangxi Miao:

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Bible Resources in Eastern Xiangxi Miao:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Frontier Unreached People Group, (LPI: 0), < 0.1% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

Next steps for the Eastern Xiangxi Miao:
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Pray specifically for the Eastern Xiangxi Miao of China

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
readPsalm 1:6

As many look for hope in worldly pleasures, pray they will hear and accept salvation through Christ, turn from destruction, and experience joy in the way of righteousness.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
readPsalm 119:105

Pray that they will receive the Word of God as a lamp to their feet and commit their ways to Him.

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
readColossians 2:6-7

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be rooted and built up in Him, abounding in thanksgiving for the grace and mercy He has shown them.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
readRevelation 7:9-10

Pray that the promise in Revelation 7:9-10 will encourage believers from among them or from nearby people groups to share the gospel with people who have never learned it.

Miao, Eastern Xiangxi Across Countries (ROP3 - 114068) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Eastern Xiangxi MiaoPG006746Eastern Xiangxi MiaoChina137,000Unengaged and UnreachedEastern Xiangxi MiaoChinese Folk Religion

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