Xinjiang Travel
Xinjiang is short for Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and locates in the northwest of China. With an area of 1,650,257 square kilometers (637,000 square miles), it is a large, sparsely populated area which takes up about one sixth of the country's territory. In ancient times, the Silk Road passed through the region. Xinjiang is adjacent to Gansu, Qinghai Province on the east and Tibet on the south. Besides, the neighboring countries have Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan on the west and north, by the Republic of Mongolia on the northeast, and by Pakistan, Afghanistan and India on the southwest. The capital is Urumqi, and the other main cities are Turpan Prefecture, Kashgar Prefecture, Hotan (Hetian) Prefecture, Aksu Prefecture and so on.
In the north, it has the Altai Mountain; the Tian Shan Mountain is in the middle; Kunlun Mountain, Kala Kunlun Mountain and Arjin Ranges enclose the region on the south. The Tian Shan Mountain as the symbol of Xinjiang lies across the central area of the Region, which makes the two basins: Tarim Basin, a vast desert to the south and Dzungaria Basin in the north. Xinjiang is a multi-religious area with different minorities. The religions have Islamism, Lamaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Shamanism. The dominant one is Islamism having tremendous influence in social life, because more than 10 minorities like Uygur, Khazak, Hui, Kirgiz, Tadjik, Uzbek, Tatar, Sala, Dongxiang, Bao’an and so no believe in Islamism, which take up most of the population. Most of the people reside in along the edges of the Dzungaria and the Tarim basin.
Xinjiang is fruitful in resources, not only has rich energy reserves like minerals, coal, petroleum and natural gas, but also important grain, cotton and textile base in the country. The wheat, corn, the paddy rice are the major grain crops. The climate of Ili valley is temperate, rich raining and fertile, which is a wonderful place to plant paddy rice and wheat and renowned Ili as “the Xinjiang Granary”. The industrial crops are glorious with great varieties. The main products have cotton, plant oil, beet, hemp, tobacco leaves, raw material of medicine, silkworm cocoon and so on. Especially, the cotton is well-known through the nation for its superior quality. On the other hand, it has 138 minerals discovered with a large amount of reserves. The unearthed petroleum is over 20.86billion tons and the natural gas resource is more than 103billion cubic meters. A full exploitation is undertaking to develop the regional economy even to the country.
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