Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County.

Shizhu is the autonomous county on the south bank of the Yangtze, the only one in the Three Gorges region designated for a single minority, the Tujia. It covers 3,010 square kilometres and lies 321 kilometres from the Chongqing urban centre, closer to the main city than the other three autonomous counties. The name means Stone Pillars, after two rocks on Wanshou Mountain. Its line runs from a Song pacification office through a Ming xuanwei office and a Qing direct department in 1761 to the autonomous county of 1959. Its hills grow Coptis chinensis and water shield, its river port is Xituo, and part of the county went under the reservoir, moving 8,400 people.