Dao County

Dao County 道县
County
Daoxian Location in Hunan
Coordinates:
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
Prefecture-level city	Yongzhou
Area
• Total	2,441.03 km2 (942.49 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	605,799
• Density	250/km2 (640/sq mi)
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	4253XX

Dao County (simplified Chinese: 道县; traditional Chinese: 道縣; pinyin: Dào Xiàn) is under the administration of Yongzhou, Hunan province, China. Located in the southwestern part of Yongzhou City, it borders the prefecture-level city of Guilin (Guangxi) to the west.

History

The Dao County Massacre of 1967

Main article: Daoxian massacre

The 1967 mass killing in Dao County, known as the Dao County Massacre, lasted 66 days from August 13 to October 17, 1967. It resulted in 4,519 dead, of whom 4,193 were killed outright and 326 were forced to commit suicide.

There are two principal features of this massacre. The first one is that it took place during the Cultural Revolution. The other is that nearly 90 percent of the victims were labeled as "class enemies", i.e., the so-called Black Five Categories (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, "bad elements," and rightists) and their family members.

(source: http://www.massviolence.org/The-Dao-County-Massacre-of-1967)

Transport

• Luoyang–Zhanjiang Railway

References

• www.xzqh.org (Chinese)