Tongren, Qinghai

Tongren 同仁市 · ཐུང་རིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར། Rebgong
County-level city
Tongren from above
Tongren (light red) within Huangnan Prefecture (yellow) and Qinghai
Tongren Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates (Tongren County government): 35°30′58″N 102°01′06″E / 35.5161°N 102.0183°E / 35.5161; 102.0183
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Autonomous prefecture	Huangnan
Municipal seat	Longwu (Rongwo)
Area
• Total	3,275 km2 (1,264 sq mi)
Elevation	2,480 m (8,140 ft)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	101,519
• Density	31/km2 (80/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	811399
Area code	0973
Website	www.hntongren.gov.cn

Tongren (Tibetan: ཐུན་རིན་, Wylie: thun rin; Chinese: 同仁; pinyin: Tóngrén), known to Tibetans as Rebgong (Tibetan: རེབ་གོང་, རེབ་ཀོང་ or རེབ་སྐོང་)^[2] in the historic region of Amdo, is the capital and second smallest administrative subdivision by area within Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai, China. The city has an area of 3465 square kilometers and a population of ~80,000 (2002), 75% Tibetan. The economy of the city includes agriculture and aluminium mining.

The city has a number of Tibetan Buddhist temples and gompas, including the large and significant Rongwo Monastery of the Gelug school. It is known as a center of thangka painting. Regong arts were named on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in 2009.

In October, 2010 there were reports of large demonstrations in Tongren by Tibetan students who reportedly shouted the slogans, “equality of ethnic groups” and “freedom of language."^[3]