# Xiaojin County

Xiaojin County (Chinese: 小金县), also known as Tsanlha from its Tibetan name (Tibetan: བཙན་ལྷ་རྫོང་།), is a county in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China. It is the southernmost county-level division of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.

## History

Prior to the 18th century, Lesser Jinchuan was ruled by the Gyalrong Tibetan Chiefdom of Tsanlha. From 1747 to 1776, the Qing dynasty launched the Jinchuan campaigns to suppress the Jinchuan chiefdoms.

## Administrative divisions

Xiaojin County contains 7 towns and 11 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Meixing Town (Mêxin) | 美兴镇 | Měixīnɡ Zhèn | མེ་ཞིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | me zhin grong rdal | 513227100 |
| Gularipo (Siguniangshan) | 四姑娘山镇 | Sìgūniángshān Zhèn | སྐུ་བླ་རི་བོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sku bla ri bo grong rdal | 513227101 |
| Qukar Town (Lianghekou) | 两河口镇 | Liǎnghékǒu Zhèn | ཆུ་གར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu gar grong rdal | 513227102 |
| Dayung Town (Dawei) | 达维镇 | Dáwéi Zhèn | ཏ་ཡུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ta yung grong rdal | 513227103 |
| Wangxing Town (Wori) | 沃日镇 | Wòrì Zhèn | དབང་ཞིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dbang zhing grong rdal | 513227104 |
| Qêlung Town (Zhailong) | 宅垄镇 | Zháilǒng Zhèn | ཆེ་ལུང་་གྲོང་རྡལ། | che lung grong rdal | 513227106 |
| Bajêo Town (Bajiao) | 八角镇 | Bājiǎo Zhèn | པ་ཅེའོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | pa cevo grong rdal | 513227107 |
| Townships ||||||
| Chongde Township (Chungdê) | 崇德乡 | Chóngdé Xiāng | ཁྲུང་ཏེ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | khrung te yul tsho | 513227201 |
| Xinqiao Township (Xinqao) | 新桥乡 | Xīnqiáo Xiāng | ཞིན་ཆའོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | zhin chavo yul tsho | 513227202 |
| Meiwo Township (Mêyao) | 美沃乡 | Měiwò Xiāng | མེ་ཡའོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | me yavo yul tsho | 513227203 |
| Shalung Township (Shalong) | 沙龙乡 | Shālóng Xiāng | ཧྲ་ལུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | hra lung yul tsho | 513227204 |
| Sur Township (Ri'er) | 日尔乡 | Rì'ěr Xiāng | ཟུར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | zur yul tsho | 513227208 |
| Gyomai Township (Jiesi) | 结斯乡 | Jiésī Xiāng | ཀྱོ་སྨད་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kyo smad yul tsho | 513227209 |
| Mipam Township (Mupo) | 木坡乡 | Mùpō Xiāng | མི་ཕམ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | mi pham yul tsho | 513227211 |
| Fubian Township (Fubên) | 抚边乡 | Fǔbiān Xiāng | ཧྥུ་པེན་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | hphu pen yul tsho | 513227213 |
| Ogdu Township (Wodi) | 窝底乡 | Wōdǐ Xiāng | འོག་ཏུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vog tu yul tsho | 513227216 |
| Haxung Township (Hanniu) | 汗牛乡 | Hànniú Xiāng | ཧ་ཤུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | ha shung yul tsho | 513227217 |
| Parnga Township (Pan'an) | 潘安乡 | Pān'ān Xiāng | ཕར་རྔ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | phar rnga yul tsho | 513227218 |

## Climate

Climate data for Xiaojin, elevation 2,438 m (7,999 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 20.8 (69.4) | 25.8 (78.4) | 31.5 (88.7) | 32.5 (90.5) | 36.3 (97.3) | 35.5 (95.9) | 35.5 (95.9) | 35.6 (96.1) | 33.8 (92.8) | 30.6 (87.1) | 23.5 (74.3) | 18.6 (65.5) | 36.3 (97.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 11.2 (52.2) | 15.3 (59.5) | 19.0 (66.2) | 22.4 (72.3) | 24.3 (75.7) | 25.5 (77.9) | 27.2 (81.0) | 27.3 (81.1) | 24.7 (76.5) | 20.4 (68.7) | 15.8 (60.4) | 11.3 (52.3) | 20.4 (68.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.0 (37.4) | 6.4 (43.5) | 10.2 (50.4) | 13.7 (56.7) | 16.3 (61.3) | 18.1 (64.6) | 20.0 (68.0) | 19.9 (67.8) | 17.3 (63.1) | 12.9 (55.2) | 8.0 (46.4) | 3.4 (38.1) | 12.4 (54.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −2.9 (26.8) | 0.0 (32.0) | 4.0 (39.2) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.7 (51.3) | 13.3 (55.9) | 15.1 (59.2) | 15.0 (59.0) | 12.5 (54.5) | 8.2 (46.8) | 2.7 (36.9) | −2.1 (28.2) | 7.0 (44.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −10.6 (12.9) | −7.9 (17.8) | −6.6 (20.1) | 0.8 (33.4) | 3.4 (38.1) | 6.8 (44.2) | 8.6 (47.5) | 7.6 (45.7) | 6.1 (43.0) | −0.2 (31.6) | −5.7 (21.7) | −10.2 (13.6) | −10.6 (12.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.0 (0.08) | 6.8 (0.27) | 22.4 (0.88) | 55.2 (2.17) | 88.7 (3.49) | 136.9 (5.39) | 95.2 (3.75) | 74.5 (2.93) | 93.6 (3.69) | 55.5 (2.19) | 8.4 (0.33) | 1.6 (0.06) | 640.8 (25.23) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.2 | 3.9 | 9.1 | 14.9 | 18.7 | 22.2 | 17.5 | 15.0 | 17.3 | 14.2 | 4.3 | 1.3 | 140.6 |
| Average snowy days | 2.6 | 3.2 | 2.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 10.6 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 39 | 38 | 42 | 47 | 53 | 63 | 63 | 60 | 63 | 60 | 49 | 43 | 52 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 131.0 | 160.5 | 201.9 | 212.7 | 214.0 | 170.2 | 176.4 | 188.6 | 172.0 | 175.3 | 144.0 | 104.1 | 2,050.7 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 41 | 51 | 54 | 55 | 50 | 40 | 41 | 46 | 47 | 50 | 46 | 33 | 46 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||