在甘肃众多的少数民族中,土族人口仅次于回、藏、东乡族而居第四位。据1990年第四次人口普查统计,全省共有土族21000多人,主要分布在武威地区的天祝藏族自治县、临夏回族自治州的积石山保安族东乡族撒拉族自治县、甘南藏族自治州的卓尼县、张掖地区的肃南裕固族自治县和兰州市的永登县,另有一小部分散居于全省各地。甘肃土族的历史渊源流长。早在西晋永嘉末年(距今大约1600多年前),游牧于辽河流域的鲜卑族慕容部首领吐谷浑率部族西迁甘肃南部地区建立游牧政权,后扩展到青海湖一带发展,号 Among the numerous ethnic minorities in Gansu, Tu nationality ranks second only to Hui, Tibet and Dongxiang peoples. According to the statistics of the fourth census in 1990, there are more than 21000 Turkish Cypriots in the province, mainly distributed in the Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County in Wuwei Prefecture, the Jishishan Baoshi Autonomous Prefecture in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, the Zhuoni Autonomous County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture , Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Zhangye Prefecture and Yongdeng County in Lanzhou City, while a small number scattered throughout the province. Gansu Tu people have a long history. As early as the last years of Yongjia in the Western Jin Dynasty (about 1,600 years ago), the Tuobaur, the leader of the Xianbei-Murong tribe in the Liaohe River basin, led the tribal westward to the establishment of a nomadic regime in the southern part of Gansu and expanded to develop along the Qinghai Lake.