Mang City formerly named Luxi City (潞西市; pinyin: Lùxī Shì), is a county-level city

County-level city

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 in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan

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 Province, China

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It is the seat of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture

Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture

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. In 1996, Luxi was upgraded to a county-level city.

Name change

In 2008, 4751 people, from many ethnic groups and all walks of life, participated in a public opinion survey in favour of restoring the historical name (Mang City), with 96.96% supporting a name change to Mang City. In 2010, the name of the county-level city was formally changed, becoming the very first single-character (excluding the word for city, "市") city in mainland China.