The Buyi nationality has a population of 2,545,059, mainly living in two Buyi and Miao autonomous prefectures in southwest Guizhou Province. And 10 counties (cities) such as Duyun, Dushan, Pingtang and Zhenning in Guizhou. The rest are scattered in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and other provinces (regions).

Buyi area has beautiful mountains and rivers and colorful natural scenery. More than a dozen tourist attractions such as the famous Huangguoshu Waterfall, Guiyang Huaxi, Anshun "Dragon Palace" Cave and Panjiang Tiesuo Bridge welcome thousands of tourists every year. In addition to tourism resources, wildlife resources and mineral resources are also rich.

Buyi people mainly focus on agriculture and have a long history of rice value. Hongshui River Basin is also one of the important forest areas in China.

Buyi nationality is an indigenous people in the southeast of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, who worked and lived here as early as the Stone Age. Buyi people are related to Liao, Baiyue and Baipu in ancient times. The history of the Tang Dynasty was called "Southwest Man", after the Song and Yuan Dynasties it was called "Fan" and "Zhong Jia Man", and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties it was called "Zhong Man". After the founding of New China, they were collectively called Buyi people.

Buyi language belongs to Zhuang-Dai branch of Zhuang-Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, and has no mother tongue. Buyi language came into being in 1950s, but it has not been widely popularized. Now there is more commonly used Chinese.