Luoji Township, Shangri-La

The vast majority in the township are employed in agriculture, taking advantage of the rich soils in the lower valleys to the south in which two crops are harvested each year, in June and October. The main crops grown are rice, wheat, corn and potatoes and many farmers rear animals.[5] 5954 mu (m is equivalent to 0.666 or ⅔ km²) is allocated to farmland, 1,400,400 mu to pasture land and 5,900,000 mu is forest within Luoji Township.[5] Occasionally the forest is prone to fires, one outbreak affected some 187 hectares of land and required over a thousand people to subdue it.[6] The township is particularly noted for its matsutake mushrooms, growing wild on the hillsides rather than cultivated.[5] They have strict rules laid down by the local government for picking, such as not to pick young mushrooms smaller than 6 cm.[7] The township also grows a medicinal plant in the wild called chongcao, which also earns a considerable revenue.[5] There is a pine wood crafting factory in the main town of Luoji. The township contains 15 schools, with 37 teachers and 506 students as of the last census.[5]