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Shiping was a department in southern Yunnan on the road to Lin'an. Established by the Yuan in 1270, it belonged to Lin'an Route by 1337.

After Ming armies took Yunnan in 1382, the department was renamed Shiping and placed under Lin'an Prefecture; the Qing retained it. In 1810 five neighbouring native chieftaincies, including Wazha and Luokong, came under its jurisdiction. During the Ming and Qing, Shiping produced more than a hundred metropolitan graduates.