Lianshan

Trucks are taking out farm produce from many mountainous counties for the first time in history and bringing in manufactured goods for production and daily life. Take the Lienshan Chuang and Yao Autonomous County deep in the mountains in [the] northern part of the province. The 15 new roads reach every commune, covering 80 per cent of the production brigades under them.

[1972 April 18 [1972 April 16], “Kwangtung Province Builds More Highways”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 76, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 2

Let us look at the example of Lianshan County. Chapter Two noted that under one fifth of the Zhuangzu living in Guangdong Province are in Lianshan. That is, four-fifths of the Guangdong Zhuangzu live in areas that are not under autonomous Zhuangzu local government but rather under the prefectural and county branches of the Guangdong Provincial Government. For these large numbers of Zhuangzu people, their provincial and sub-provincial governments are not tasked with operationalizing the constitutional language freedom at all. Rather, all Zhuangzu people living outside the nominally autonomous Zhuangzu territories - Lianshan, Wenshan and GZAR - fall outside the scope of the language governance framework.

2021, Alexandra Grey, Language Rights in a Changing China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=bdIuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT120