The ethnic minorities in Fuyang Town account for 85% of the total population, mainly Miao, Tujia and Gelao. Their Tujia culture has been recorded as early as Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins ("Ba people" are the ancestors of Tujia people). During the Song Dynasty, foreigners in Fuyang mastered the science and technology of irrigating farmland with water trucks. Fuyang has always attached importance to education and is a civilized town with outstanding people. During the Republic of China, there was a Yang Jiafeng and Bai Yang in Huoshixi, who successively served as a minister of a Kuomintang department, a county magistrate of Meitan, a county magistrate of Fenggang, and a military affairs general office of a division of a central army of the Kuomintang. He was a soldier all his life and was the patron saint of transit merchants on the Sichuan-Guizhou traffic line. After the founding of New China, Fuyang Town has also trained and brought up many outstanding talents, which has made certain contributions to the four modernizations of the motherland. Yang, who is currently the director of the Political Department of the Air Force Logistics Headquarters, is a newcomer to Fuyang.