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The Chinese government designated Kashgar as the sixth special economic zone of China in May 2010, in hopes that it would encourage foreign investment in the region. [91] Critics, however, questioned the government's decision to choose Kashgar, citing the city's undesirable location and the predominance of agriculture in the local economy ...
Shule originally referred to Kashgar's new city, built by Han Chinese settlers, located 6 miles (9.7 km) from the old one. [6] Shule may have been an attempt by the Chinese to transcribe the Sanskrit name for Kashgar, Śrīkrīrāti (lit. ' fortunate hospitality '). [7] The county's Uyghur name literally means "Kashgar New City".
As of 1999, 89.37% of the population of Kashgar (Kasi) Prefecture was Uyghur and 9.1% of the population was Han Chinese. [34] In 1997, the population of Kashgar Prefecture was 3,145,000 with Uyghurs making up 89.4% of the total. [20] As of 1983–4, Kashgar Prefecture had 6,180 mosques. In the mid-1980's, there were two million Uyghurs in ...
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Shufu County, also transliterated from Uyghur as Konaxahar County or Konasheher County, Kona Sheher County, is a county in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It contains an area of 3,513 km 2 (1,356 sq mi).
Kashi Laining International Airport [5] [6] (IATA: KHG, ICAO: ZWSH), formerly Kashgar Airport [a] until August 2023, [7] is a dual-use military-civilian airport serving Kashgar (Kashi), [2] [7] [8] a city in Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.
The extreme weather in China, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, was on display in July as U.S. climate envoy John Kerry arrived in Beijing the same day China’s hottest-ever temperature ...
In 1928, Makit County was created as part of Kashgar Circuit (喀什噶爾道). [18] In 2002, 240 Tajik (China) households displaced from Taxkorgan reclaimed a desert village in the county. [19] In early 2011, a Uyghur butcher in Makit County and six friends were arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a Han Chinese prostitute. [20]