Yongning

Yongning was a Zhuang native department in the Guanling hills of southwestern Guizhou. Created from Dahan lands under the Yuan, it was subordinate to the Puding route and had no counties of its own.

The Ming restored the department in 1383 and attached it to the Puding Guard in 1392. Its seat moved to Guansuoling in 1532 and to Annan Guard city in 1576; in 1583 it passed to Anshun Prefecture. It moved again to Chacheng during the Tianqi reign of 1621 to 1627 and survived into the early Qing.