The Southern Qiandong Miao of China, numbering approximately 986,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Hmu people of southeastern Guizhou and northern Guangxi whose identity is rooted in the Southern Qiandong branch of the Hmongic language family and shaped by centuries of interaction with neighboring Dong communities They are an Indigenous people, with Qiandong Miao / Hmu as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Miao / Hmong people cluster of the Southeast Asian Peoples. They mostly adhere to Chinese Folk Religion and Southern Qiandong Miao is their primary language.