Gin people
京族 Người Kinh (𠊛京) | |
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| Total population | |
| 33,112 (2020 census) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| China (Wutou, Wanwei and Shanxin islands off the coast of Dongxing, Guangxi) | |
| Languages | |
| Standard Chinese (lingua franca), Yue Chinese, Vietnamese (writing in chữ Nôm and chữ Hán) & other Vietic languages | |
| Religion | |
| Vietnamese folk religion · Mahayana Buddhism · Taoism · Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Vietnamese people, Muong, Chứt, Thổ |
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| Chinese | 京族 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Dân tộc Kinh Người Kinh tại Trung Quốc | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 民族京 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chữ Nôm | 𠊛京在中國 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gin, or Jing people, (Chinese: 京族, Sino-Vietnamese: Kinh tộc; Vietnamese: người Kinh tại Trung Quốc) are a community of descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living in China. They mainly live in an area called the Jing Islands (京族三岛), off the coast of Dongxing, Fangchenggang, in the Chinese autonomous region of Guangxi. These territories were administered by the Nguyễn dynasty but were later ceded by the French to the Qing dynasty due to the 1887 convention, after the Sino-French war.
The Việt were labelled Yue (Chinese: 越族; pinyin: Yuèzú, Sino-Vietnamese: Việt tộc; Vietnamese: người Việt tại Trung Quốc) before the introduction of the names "Kinh", "Gin", or "Jing", in 1958. This name change was requested by the Kinh people, who did not want to be associated with the country of Vietnam, as 越/Yue made them look like Vietnamese citizens in China, and thus they chose their ethnic name, the Kinh.
The Gin population was 33,112 as of 2020. This number does not include the 36,205 Vietnamese nationals studying or working in Mainland China, recorded by the 2010 national population census.