Xialuhe Korean Ethnic Township

Throughout the 1920s on through the 1940s, the area of present-day Xialuhe was a hotbed of Korean independence armies, who often sparred with occupying Japanese forces.[4]

In 1958, Xialuhe Township was created.[3][2] Xialuhe was re-designated from a township to an ethnic township in 1987.[3]

Xialuhe is divided into 6 administrative villages.[5]

• Majiazi/Magaja (马架子村, 마가자촌)[4]
• Lianjiang (连江村)
• Tongjiang/Tonggang (通江村, 통강촌)[4]
• Chuangou/Cheongu(川沟村, 천구촌)[4]
• Shuanglian (双联村)
• Shuangguang (双广村)

Xialuhe Korean Ethnic Township has a population of 10,887 as of 2018.[1]

As of 2010, the ethnic township had a population of 10,370, of which there are 5,371 males and 4,999 females.[6] That year, there were 1,327 people aged 14 and under, 7,941 people aged 15 to 64, and 1,102 people aged 65 and up.[6]

A 2009 estimate placed Xialuhe's population at about 11,200.[4]

As of 2007, there were approximately 1,100 ethnic Koreans living in Xialuhe,[2] however, Xialuhe's ethnic Korean population has declined in recent years,[4] largely due to low birth rates, migration to urban areas, and emigration to South Korea.[4] By the 2010s, a local Korean language newspaper reported that many schoolchildren in Xialuhe cannot speak Korean.[4]

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, a number of bilingual schools teaching in both Mandarin Chinese and Korean have been established in Xialuhe.[4] However, due to the decline in the local ethnic Korean population, a number of these schools have been closed or merged in recent years.[4]