Chinese Ewenki ethnic minority group, with a population of 26,300 in a statistical survey conducted in 2000, has a lifestyle of nomad, and is distributed across seven counties in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and in Nahe County of Heilongjiang Province of China. The Ewenki people have no written script but a spoken language with three dialects belonging to the Manchu-Tungusic group of the Altai language family. Raising reindeers is the key livelihood of Ewenkis.