# Jiulong County

Gyaisi County (Tibetan: བརྒྱད་ཟིལ། / བརྒྱད་ཟུར།, Wylie: brgyad zil / brgyad zur), also Jiulong County (Chinese: 九龙县); is a county located in southeastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province, China. It has a population of 52000, mainly Tibetans, Hans, and Yis.

## Administrative divisions

Gyaisi County contains 9 towns, 4 townships, and 3 ethnic townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Yi | Romanized Yi | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||||
| Gor Town (Ga'er) | 呷尔镇 | Gā'ěr Zhèn | སྒོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgor grong rdal | | | 513324100 |
| Yandai Town (Yaindain) | 烟袋镇 | Yāndài Zhèn | ཡན་ཏན་ཀྲེན། | yan tan kren | | | 513324101 |
| Sayag Town (Sanya) | 三垭镇 | Sānyā Zhèn | ས་ཡག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sa yag grong rdal | | | 513324102 |
| Qêwalung Town (Xuewalong) | 雪洼龙镇 | Xuěwālóng Zhèn | བྱེ་བ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bye ba lung grong rdal | | | 513324103 |
| Mukyü Town (Wanba) | 湾坝镇 | Wānbà Zhèn | མུ་ཁྱུད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mu khyud grong rdal | | | 513324104 |
| Tanggo Town (Tanggu) | 汤古镇 | Tānggǔ Zhèn | ཐང་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thang mgo grong rdal | | | 513324105 |
| Ulagqoin Town (Wulaxi) | 乌拉溪镇 | Wūlāxī Zhèn | འུ་ལག་བྱོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'u lag byon grong rdal | | | 513324106 |
| Kardo Town (Kuiduo) | 魁多镇 | Kuíduō Zhèn | འཁར་རྡོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | 'khar rdo grong rdal | | | 513324107 |
| Laqu Town (Naiqu) | 乃渠镇 | Nǎiqú Zhèn | ལ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | la chu grong rdal | | | 513324108 |
| Townships ||||||||
| Sangngagrong Township (Sanyanlong) | 三岩龙乡 | Sānyánlóng Xiāng | གསང་སྔགས་རོང་ཤང་། | gsang sngags rong shang | | | 513324202 |
| Sangtoin Township (Shangtuan) | 上团乡 | Shàngtuán Xiāng | སང་ཐོན་ཤང་། | sang thon shang | | | 513324203 |
| Baworong Township (Ba'obrong, Bawolung) | 八窝龙乡 | Bāwōlóng Xiāng | དཔའ་བོ་རོང་ཤང་། | dpa' bo rong shang | | | 513324204 |
| Hurba Township (Hongba) | 洪坝乡 | Hóngbà Xiāng | ཧུར་པ་ཤང་། | hur pa shang | | | 513324216 |
| Ethnic townships ||||||||
| Zylur Yi Ethnic Township (Zi'er) | 子耳彝族乡 | Zǐ'ěr Yízú Xiāng | | | ꊪꇓꆈꌠꑣ | zy lur nuo su xie | 513324209 |
| Xuoji Yi Ethnic Township (Xiaojin) | 小金彝族乡 | Xiǎojīn Yízú Xiāng | | | ꑦꏢꆈꌠꑣ | xuo ji nuo su xie | 513324212 |
| Dolop Yi Ethnic Township (Duoluo) | 朵洛彝族乡 | Duǒluò Yízú Xiāng | | | ꄏꇊꆈꌠꑣ | do lop nuo su xie | 513324213 |

## Geography and climate

Due to its elevation, Jiulong County has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb), with strong monsoonal influences; winters are frosty and summers warm with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 1.6 °C (34.9 °F) in December and January to 15.3 °C (59.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 9.1 °C (48.4 °F). Over 75% of the annual precipitation of 922.5 mm (36.3 in) occurs from June through September. With monthly average percentage of sunny days ranging from 32% in July to 58% in January, the county seat receives 1,983 hours of bright sunshine annually. Diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 14.2 °C (25.6 °F) annually.
Climate data for Jiulong, elevation 2,925 m (9,596 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 23.5 (74.3) | 25.3 (77.5) | 26.4 (79.5) | 28.0 (82.4) | 31.2 (88.2) | 31.7 (89.1) | 30.2 (86.4) | 29.3 (84.7) | 29.1 (84.4) | 25.1 (77.2) | 22.6 (72.7) | 20.5 (68.9) | 31.7 (89.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) | 14.2 (57.6) | 16.9 (62.4) | 19.5 (67.1) | 21.4 (70.5) | 21.9 (71.4) | 21.8 (71.2) | 21.7 (71.1) | 20.0 (68.0) | 17.9 (64.2) | 15.0 (59.0) | 12.4 (54.3) | 17.9 (64.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.8 (35.2) | 4.2 (39.6) | 7.2 (45.0) | 10.0 (50.0) | 13.1 (55.6) | 15.0 (59.0) | 15.4 (59.7) | 15.2 (59.4) | 13.7 (56.7) | 10.4 (50.7) | 5.4 (41.7) | 2.0 (35.6) | 9.5 (49.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.5 (22.1) | −3.4 (25.9) | −0.3 (31.5) | 2.9 (37.2) | 7.1 (44.8) | 10.7 (51.3) | 11.7 (53.1) | 11.4 (52.5) | 10.0 (50.0) | 5.9 (42.6) | −0.6 (30.9) | −4.7 (23.5) | 3.8 (38.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −15.6 (3.9) | −13.1 (8.4) | −9.4 (15.1) | −5.6 (21.9) | −2.0 (28.4) | 2.6 (36.7) | 3.5 (38.3) | 2.5 (36.5) | 0.0 (32.0) | −4.8 (23.4) | −10.5 (13.1) | −14.4 (6.1) | −15.6 (3.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.8 (0.11) | 4.3 (0.17) | 20.3 (0.80) | 42.3 (1.67) | 86.7 (3.41) | 203.4 (8.01) | 190.0 (7.48) | 150.7 (5.93) | 149.5 (5.89) | 51.2 (2.02) | 12.0 (0.47) | 2.1 (0.08) | 915.3 (36.04) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.2 | 3.1 | 8.5 | 13.2 | 18.0 | 24.4 | 25.3 | 23.3 | 22.9 | 12.5 | 4.9 | 1.9 | 160.2 |
| Average snowy days | 5.5 | 6.1 | 4.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 24.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 43 | 41 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 62 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 186.0 | 176.0 | 189.0 | 185.6 | 181.9 | 145.3 | 132.1 | 134.5 | 133.0 | 163.1 | 176.1 | 183.7 | 1,986.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 57 | 55 | 51 | 48 | 43 | 35 | 31 | 33 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 58 | 46 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China ||||||||||||||