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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Jingpo of China

The Jingpo of China, numbering approximately 29,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an indigenous community of China They are an Indigenous people, with Kachin as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Miri-Kachin people cluster of the Himalayan Peoples. Their primary religion is Protestantism. They primarily speak Jingpho.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Jingpo

Fast Facts*:

Affinity Group: Himalayan Peoples
Country: China
People Cluster: Miri-Kachin
Primary Language(s): Jingpho (kac)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 29,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG007217
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Jingpho
Language Family: Sino-Tibetan

100%
%
Jingpho Speakers

Media Resources in Jingpho:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Jingpho:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

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Or check out the Jingpho bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Jingpo are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Jingpo:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Jingpo of China

He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him
readLuke 10:34

Pray that the lost among them will experience the kind of compassion Jesus taught His followers to show others, and that they will trust in Him because He is the one who brings healing to the broken and lost.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
readPsalm 96:8

Pray for people here to humbly give God the glory due His name.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
read2 Corinthians 9:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will trust God in all things, especially in times of persecution.

At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ...that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.
readColossians 4:3-4

Ask God to open doors for believers to share the gospel and help them communicate it clearly so that more people will understand the mystery of Christ and turn to follow Him.

Kachin, Jingpho Across Countries (ROP3 - 104372) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
KachinPG009448KachinMyanmar1,065,000No Longer UnreachedJingphoProtestantism
JingpoPG007217JingpoChina29,500No Longer UnreachedJingphoProtestantism
KachinPG047264KachinUnited States175No Longer UnreachedJingphoProtestantism

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

*Peoplegroups.org relies on updates from the field and other organizations for much of our data, so if you have any updates, please contact us. We use various international naming standards. For a list of these standards and fields, visit our Data Standards section.

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