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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

The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD accepts my prayer.
readPsalm 6:9

Pray that lost people will hear the gospel and place their faith in Christ, knowing that He hears their plea and accepts their prayer.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
readIsaiah 40:8

Pray that everyone has access to God's Word and that those who hear the good news will turn from their sins and put their faith in Jesus the Messiah.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
readActs 17:23

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have a deep desire to know God more fully and to make Him known in creative ways to others who are still searching for truth.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
read1 John 1:5

Pray that God will raise up believers who can share the gospel with people who don't know the good news of Jesus, that God is light and in him, there is no darkness at all.

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

Strategic Progress Index
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3 people groups

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