Introduction to Taijiang: Taijiang is located in the southeast of Guizhou Province and in the middle of the Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast of Guizhou Province. The county seat is 48 kilometers away from Kaili City, and 218 kilometers away from Guiyang City. Taijiang County governs 8 townships and towns, and 161 village (residential) committees, with 1,108 square kilometers and 93,195 acres of arable land. Highway 65 and National Highway 320 pass through the county. Taijiang County is 1208.2 square kilometers. It consists of 3 towns, 6 townships, 5 neighborhood committees and 197 village committees. At the end of 2002, there were 167,200 people, including 1.55 million non-agriculture and 15.7 million ethnic minorities.