Yongding, Longyan
district in Longyan, Fujian, China
Yongding (Chinese: 永定) is a district under the jurisdiction of Longyan prefecture-level city in the southwest of Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. The district is a center for Hakka culture, including the traditional Hakka tulou, and a local dialect of the Hakka Chinese called the Yongding Dialect. As of 2015, Yongding has a permanent population of about 361,000, of which more than 99% are Hakka, the rest being She people. In December 2014, the Fujian government signed legislation converting Yongding from a county to a district.
Yongding is the hometown of many overseas Chinese immigrants that came to south-east Asia and Burma during the British Raj.
History
Yongding County was established in the 14th year of Chenghua (AD 1478) in the Ming dynasty. It was originally part of Shanghang County. The governor of Fujian province proposed to separate this south-eastern part of the Shanghang County to form a new county and name it Yongding, literally meaning peaceful forever, after suppressing a riot in that particular region.
On December 13, 2014, the Fujian government passed a law converting Yongding from a county to a district. The law came into effect on February 9, 2015.
The public source identifies “Yongding, Longyan” as district in Longyan, Fujian, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yongding, Longyan and district.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1335184. Authority coordinates are 24.723, 116.724. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2014 and 1478.
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