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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Eastern Yongbei Zhuang of China

The Eastern Yongbei Zhuang of China, numbering approximately 746,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are one of several linguistic subgroups of Zhuang, China's largest ethnic minority (Guangxi). They mostly adhere to Chinese Folk Religion and Yongbei Zhuang is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Zhuang, Yongbei Eastern

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Southeast Asian Peoples
Country: China
People Cluster: Zhuang
Primary Language(s): Yongbei Zhuang (zyb)
Primary Religion(s): Chinese Folk Religion
Population: 746,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG048783

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Chinese Folk Religion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

90%
%
Chinese Folk Religion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yongbei Zhuang
Language Family: Tai-Kadai

100%
%
Zhuang, Yongbei Speakers

Media Resources in Yongbei Zhuang:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Provided by the Jesus Film Project

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Bible Resources in Yongbei Zhuang:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
New Bridge Publishing Company Limited, 2016✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Yongbei Zhuang bible at Bible.com

Linked from YouVersion

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Eastern Yongbei Zhuang are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Eastern Yongbei Zhuang:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Eastern Yongbei Zhuang of China

For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
readRomans 5:7-8

Pray for the many who don't yet understand the hope of the gospel, and pray that God will reveal to them that while they were in darkness, Christ died for them.

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
readMark 4:20

Pray that those who have never encountered the gospel will have the opportunity to receive it, and that it will fall on good soil and bear much fruit.

Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
readPsalm 6:8

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will remind them that He is near and will help them place their hope in Him when others wish to do them harm.

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father sends me, even so I am sending you."
readJohn 20:21

Ask God to raise up and send out believers cross-culturally who will go out in His authority and be sustained by His peace as they share the gospel with the lost.

Zhuang, Eastern Yongbei Across Countries (ROP3 - 116340) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▲NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Eastern Yongbei ZhuangPG048783Eastern Yongbei ZhuangChina746,000Engaged yet UnreachedYongbei ZhuangChinese Folk Religion

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