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Chuxiong is a county-level city and the seat of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, in central Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. Situated in the north-central of Yunnan Province, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture neighbors Kunming in the east and Dali Bai Autonomous Region in the west. It is separated from Lijiang by the Jinsha River in the northwest and bordered by Sichuan Province in the north, The fossilized remains of Yuanmou Man who lived 1.7 million years ago were discovered in Yuanmou County in 1965. Before the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC), three main ethnic groups were recorded as active in this region. After hundreds of years of multiethnic fusion, Chuxiong became a residential area with Yi ethnic minority as its largest group. However, this was to change during the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), when the Han became the largest group in this area due to the large number of migrants from Central China.