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The History of Yunnan
During the Ming, after an intensive period of migration to Yunnan, the Han Chinese made up about a third of the province's population. The number of Han residents reached 60% and all these native people who had called various parts of Yunnan their home since before the time of the Yellow Emperor now found themselves slotted in the shao shu min zu category. Peasants, merchants and pioneers from elsewhere in China came in numbers never seen before.