The Salar of China, numbering approximately 171,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Turkic Muslim people whose ancestors migrated east from Samarkand in Central Asia during the Yuan dynasty and settled along the Yellow River on the Qinghai-Gansu border They are an Indigenous people, with Salar as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Turkic people cluster of the Turkic Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Salar is their primary language.