Batang

Batang was a Khampa chiefdom on the Batang plain in the Jinsha valley, in present-day western Sichuan. Under the Yuan, the area became a pacification office.

From 1568 to 1639 the Naxi chiefs of Lijiang held Batang with Ming backing. After Güshi Khan's Khoshut Mongols conquered Kham, a Mongol-appointed steward ruled until Batang submitted to a Qing army in 1719. The Qing assigned it to Sichuan in 1726; by 1764 more than eighty Chinese merchant houses had settled there.