Contemporary qiao of the population has reached more than 170, in the national one hundred and eight, accounts for about 0.14% of the population.Since the Ming dynasty 600 years qiao population soared to more than 170 by 110000, increased by more than 15 times.Qiao's population grows faster than the population increase speed.Since the song dynasty 1000 years, the increase in population of qiao rate is on the rise.Distribution throughout the country at present mainly concentrated in four provinces of henan, shandong, jiangsu, shanxi, about 55% of the qiao population.Secondly distributed in hebei, Inner Mongolia, shaanxi, three provinces and concentration of 23%.Henan for contemporary qiao first big province, living the qiao 24% of the total population.The formation of the northern east yu jin ji, lu su two qiao accumulation.In 600, qiao degree and direction of migration and reflecting during some differences, from the southeast to the central plains and north move back into the mainstream.Qiao distribution is very wide, but uneven distribution in the crowd.

In central Inner Mongolia, JinYu, jing ji most, of the western and the eastern most of northern ningxia, shaanxi, shandong, anhui in north ordos segment, the eastern end of the black, qiao accounted for the proportion of the population is in commonly 0.33%, central region above 0.8%, above the cover about 13.6% of the total area of the land, the area for about 45% of the qiao crowd.In most of eastern Inner Mongolia, liaoning, eastern, western jilin, hebei, tianjin, shandong, jiangsu east most southern, central anhui and hubei, the weald, qiao of the local population, generally between 0.22% - 0.33%, above the cover about 12.2% of the total area of the land, the area for about 33% of the qiao crowd.