History of Lincang City

During Shang dynasty, the place called “Baihuai”. In the period of the republic of china, it set up Shunning county(顺宁县), Yunxian county(云县), Mianning county(缅宁县), Zhenkang county(镇康县), shuangjiang county(双江县) and Cangyuan and Gengma administrative bureau. In the early year of New China, counties in now Lincang city belong to Baoshan prefecture(保山专区), Dali prefecture(大理专区) and pu’er prefecture(普洱专区) respectively. In 1952, Mianning county(current Linxiang district) which once belonged to Dali prefecture, Shuangjiang county and Gengma county which belonged to Baoshan prefecture and Cangyuan county which belonged to Pu’er prefecture, four counties were marked off to establish Mianning prefecture(缅宁专区). From 1953 to 1956, Zhenkang county, Shunning county and Yunxian county were drawn from Baoshan prefecture and Dali prefecture. Mianning prefecture was changed to Lincang Prefecture(临沧专区) in 1954 and Lincang district in 1970. On December 26^th, 2003, the state council approved the cancellation of Lincang District(临沧地区) and set up prefecture-level Lincang city.