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	Xinjiang Travel Guide: Xinjiang Tour, Map, Hotel, Tips, Xinjiang China
		Xinjiang borders Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
		With a population of over 19 million, Xinjiang is home to 47 ethnic groups including the Uygur, the major ethnic group in Xinjiang.
		Xinjiang has a desert climate with a low annual rainfall of only 150 millimeters (6 inches).
	www.travelchinaguide.com /cityguides/xinjiang (481 words)

	Search Results for "Xinjiang"
		Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, NW China, in the Dzungarian basin.
		Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, on the Manas River, in the Dzungarian basin.
		Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, in the Dzungarian basin.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Xinjiang (215 words)

	Geography: Chinese National Minorities/Distribution (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nei Monggol Autonomous Region, Liaoning Province, Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province, Gansu Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province, Hebei Province,
		Guizhou Province, Hunan Provicne, Yunnan Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, Guangdong Province, Hubei Province
		Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Gansu Province, Qinghai Province, Shandong Province, Yunnan Province, Anhui Province, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Liaoning Province
	afe.easia.columbia.edu /china/geog/bei_rev.htm (157 words)

	Xinjiang. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Xinjiang is bordered by Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan on the west and north, by the Republic of Mongolia, Gansu, and Qinghai on the east, and by Tibet and India on the south.
		The level land, divided by the Tian Shan in central Xinjiang, comprises Dzungaria, a grazing region to the north, and the Tarim basin (Taklimakan), a vast desert to the south.
		Xinjiang became a Chinese province in 1881, but even as late as the establishment of the Chinese republic in 1912 it remained more or less independent of the central government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/xi/Xinjiang.html (908 words)

	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region-A Brief Description
		Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, kown as Xinjiang or Xin for short, is situated in the area of northwest China.
		Xinjiang has in various forms cultivated a large number of ethnic minority cadres, making it possible for the contingent of ethnic minority cadres to growin strength and for their qualities to improve continuously.
		Xinjiang ran a total of 93 broadcasting programs, and 52 of them were in ethnic minority languages; and it also ran 135 television programs, and 64 of them were in ethnic minority languages.
	www.aboutxinjiang.com /Today/content/2006-08/17/content_1114750.htm (4614 words)

	Xinjiang
		It is a region with the largest land area of all the provinces and autonomous regions in China.
		In 1949, the sex ratio was 107.49, in 1953 it increased to 110.21 and increased to a peak of 123.23 in 1960.
		Xinjiang was one of the provinces and autonomous regions with the highest proportion of people divorced in China.
	www.unescap.org /esid/psis/population/database/chinadata/xinjiang.htm (4054 words)

	China Source
		Xinjiang is the sixth largest producer of cotton in China, and its per capita output (20 kgs in 1989) is China's highest.
		The Uygur language is classified along with Uzbek as belonging to the Karluk division of the Turkic branch of the Uralo-Altaic language family.
		Uygurs here are typically nominal, and many of the young educated people have little interest in Islam and never attend the mosque (except possibly for a marriage blessing).
	www.chsource.org /Uygur.htm (1757 words)

	CNTO - China National Tourist Office
		Xinjiang is far from the sea and is surrounded by snow-capped mountains, boundless deserts and vast grasslands.
		Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is located on the banks of the Urumqi River at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain.
		Loulan was one of the 36 states of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty and is at the eastern end of Tarim Basin, hub of the ancient Silk Road.
	www.cnto.org /silkroad-xinjiang.asp (2145 words)

	Xinjiang, Xinjiang, Photos about Xinjiang
		Xinjiang, in the northwest of the Chinese mainland, is a land of variety offering many different landscapes to the eyes of adventure aficionados.
		Xinjiang invested 33.4 billion yuan (US$4.02 billion)in road construction from 2001 to 2005, more than double the amount it had injected in the last five decades of the 20th century.
		According to the Communications Department of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China, the 12 transportation routes will be operational between the major cities in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan.The 12 routes will benefit trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, said Luo Jianxin, deputy director of the regional communications department.
	www.chinatour.com /xinjiang (519 words)

	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Xinjiang, China's largest province-level unit of administration in terms of territory, stretches along the National Highway 312 from Urumqi and Turpan in the east to Horgas and Yili in the west, with stops in various major cities and same towns along the way, including Changji, Kuiton and Shihezi.
		Xinjiang, with a total population of nearly 1.56 million, was home to 47 of China's 56 ethnic groups, including the Uygur (47.47 %), Han(37.58 %) and Kazak (7.3 %) ethnic groups, as well as the Mongolian, Khirghiz, Xibe, Tajik, Uzbek, Manchu, Daur, Tartar and Russian ethnic groups.
		Xinjiang is home to over 3,500 species of wild plants, some 300 of which have potentially high economic value, with 100 species rarely found elsewhere in the world.
	www.macrochina.com.cn /english/china/administration/20010413000035.shtml (2560 words)

	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region / Urumqi / hotel
		The northwestern Chinese border region of Xinjiang, lauded variously as a land of song and dance, melons and fruits, precious stones, and carpets, is situated in the heart of the Eurasia Continent.
		Xinjiang's fascinating scenery includes snowy mountains and lakes, glaciers and rivers, deserts and oases, gobi deserts and prairies, mirages, wind eroded landforms, and the Yadan topography.
		Xinjiang melons and fruits: Among the region's fruits that are known throughout China are stoneless grapes and hami-melon from Turpan and Piqan (Shanshan), fragrant pears from Korla, apples from Gulja (Yining), pomegranates from Yecheng, walnuts from Aksu, figs from Artux, and white apricots from Kuqa.
	www.chinatravelhub.com /REGIONS/091xinjiang.htm (1154 words)

	Xinjiang-Style Cuisine
		Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is inhabited by many ethnic groups, and Xinjiang-style food is characterized by roast mutton, kebabs, roast fish and rice to be eaten with the hand.
		Xinjiang roast mutton is as famous as roast duck is in Beijing and crispy suckling pig is in Guangzhou.
		Xinjiang kebabs are a snack which is popular nationwide in China, Kebabs can be found in the streets and bazaars throughout Xinjiang.
	www.chinavista.com /experience/xinjiang/cuisine.html (855 words)

	China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
		Xinjiang also has the longest boundary among China's provinces and autonomous regions and shares 5,600 kilometers of frontier with Mongolia in the northeast, then Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the west, and then Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in the southwest.
		Xinjiang is one part of the world where people tend to enjoy a relatively longer life expectancy.
		Xinjiang boasts the greatest number of airports and the longest air routes of all the provinces and autonomous regions of China.
	www.landingchina.com /city_guide/Xinjiang.htm (2170 words)

	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region - Travel Guide & Tour Packages
		Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is the largest province in China.
		Xinjiang is developing international trade center as a bridge for trade and communications with neighbourhood countries.
		The Uygurs are rapidly improving their lifestyle by adopting modern farming, processing and marketing techniques, while still maintaining their traditional culture and religion.
	chinatravelz.com /china/Xinjiang/index.asp (1678 words)

	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
		Autonomous region of northwest China, bounded to the north by Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Russia; to the east by Mongolia and Gansu;; to the south by Qinghai and Tibet;; and to the west by Jammu and Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan; area 1,646,800 sq km/635,800 sq mi (the largest political unit of China); population (2000 est) 19,250,000.
		In the late 19th century Russia, having taken over large parts of the northwest of the region, sought to extend its influence into the rest of the area, which China had made into Xinjiang province in 1884.
		In the Republican period (1911–49), the province was ruled by warlords virtually independent of the central government, and the USSR was the dominant influence in the area.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005394.html (400 words)

	The Opposite End of China \|\| Xinjiang & Northwest China Blog (中国的另一端 \|\| 新疆 & ...
		Here in Xinjiang, where opium and heroin flow over the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, rates of drug use are higher than ever.
		The report said drugs produced in the Golden Crescent region, encompassing the mountain valleys of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, pose a growing threat to China, especially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
		Xinjiang, a region that neighbours Pakistan, has become one of the major areas for drug flow, according to a report by the International Herald Leader under Xinhua.
	china.notspecial.org /archives/2006/11/xinjiangs_war_o.html (1505 words)

	History and Development of Xinjiang (Part 8)
		By the end of 2000, the people’s congress of the autonomous region and its standing committee had altogether enacted 119 local laws and 71 statutory resolutions and decisions, approved 31 local laws, 3 separate regulations formulated by local people’s congresses and 173 administrative rules and regulations formulated by the government of the autonomous region.
		Chief leaders of ethnic autonomous areas are citizens of the ethnic group or groups exercising regional autonomy in the area concerned.
		The proportions of ethnic-minority deputies in the total number of Xinjiang’s deputies to the National People’s Congress of all previous terms have all exceeded 63% — all higher than the proportions of such ethnic populations in the region’s total population in the corresponding periods.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/zt/zfbps/t36554.htm (1332 words)

	"Mystery of the mummies"
		Four thousand years ago, a community lived in the Tarim Basin -- in what is now the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China -- in the heart of Asia.
		The nation of 16 million Uygurs, who have lived in the region for 12 centuries, know that their first settlements absorbed an earlier group -- the Tocharians.
		In Chinese, Xinjiang means"new territory." Since the 1950s, about 6 million ethnic Chinese, known as Han, have settled in the Xinjiang Uygur region.
	sln.fi.edu /inquirer/mummy.html (1569 words)

	Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
		Xinjiang lies in northwest China, bordering on Gansu and Qinghai provinces to the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south, sharing a 5,000-km border line with eight countries.
		While Xinjiang enjoys between 2,500 to 3,000 hours of sunshine each year, the amount of annual precipitation for the entire region averages a mere 150 milliliters (ml), and thus the air is quite dry.
		The region's relatively well developed industrial structure focuses on a whole range industries, such as textiles, foodstuff processing, leather, paper, sugar, carpets, raw and refined oil, iron and steel, metallurgy, machinery, chemicals, power generation, building materials and the light industry.
	www.greatwalltour.com /greatwall_pages/provinces/xinjiang/xinjiang.htm (210 words)

	Xinjiang - Encyclopedia.com
		Xinjiang or Sinkiang [Chinese,=new frontier], officially Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (Mandarin Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu), autonomous region (1994 est.
		West and south of Ürümqi transportation is mainly by highways built along two ancient roads: the north road, which skirts the southern edge of the Dzungaria and connects Ürümqi with the Turkistan-Siberia rail line, and the south road, encircling the Tarim basin.
		Xinjiang Telecom Implements Teradata(R) Warehouse for its Business Analysis System; First Phase of Centralized Data Platform Deployed, Improving Data Quality for Business Decision-Making and Marketing Re-Engineering.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Xinjiang.html (1258 words)

	History and Development of Xinjiang (Part 9)
		The government of the autonomous region has, in a planned way, organized specialists for work involving the collecting, editing, translating and publishing of the cultural heritage of ethnic minorities and the protection of their famous historical monuments, scenic spots, rare cultural relics and other important items of historical and cultural heritage.
		The government of the autonomous region has formulated and promulgated the “Provisional Regulations for the Administration of Religious Activity Venues in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region” and other regulations in accordance with the Constitution and the law.
		It is subordinated to the dual leadership of the central government and the People’s Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
	www.china-embassy.org /eng/zt/zfbps/t36553.htm (1825 words)

	Xinjiang
		Xinjiang was set up as an autonomous region on October 1, 1955.
		Xinjiang is well known for the expanse of its area and richness of natural resources, as well for its wonderful scenic spots and enchanting spectacles of nature.
		Xinjiang is also a region of many minority groups in China, and its people is known far and wide for being excellent at singing and dancing.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_map/2003-09/24/content_21659.htm (514 words)

	XINJIANG UYGUR AUTONOMOUS REGION (tdctrade.com)
		With the second largest pastureland, the region is one of the major sheep farming areas and fine-wool producers in China.
		Besides, Xinjiang is a major agricultural base of grain, sugarbeet and fruits, of which, Yining apples, Korla pears, seedless white grapes and Hami melon are famous at home and abroad.
		Xinjiang built a digital microwave telecommunications trunk which links cities on both sides of the Tianshan Mountain, an fiberoptic cable system leading to neighbouring countries with a total length of 25,000 kilometres, and 10 satellite ground stations.
	www.tdctrade.com /mktprof/china/mpxij.htm (1477 words)

	Flags in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China)
		Xinjiang is one of the five "autonomous regions" of China, its status dating from 1 October 1955.
		Xinjiang Tourist Office and an official travel agency use blue disks with a white camel or horse, respectively.
		"In 1933-34 a "Republic of Uygurstan, later renamed the "Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan", was established in southern Xinjiang with its capital at Kashgar (formerly known as Kashi or Sule).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/cn-65.html (519 words)

	Map of Xinjiang, China
		Tajikistan, Pakistan and adjoins Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet Autonomous Region.
		Xinjiang is encircled by high mountains, with large, lower basins and high mountains lying alternately within it.
		Xinjiang is a multi-nationality region and possesses lofty snow-capped mountains, vast deserts, large basins and many famous historic sites.
	www.maps-of-china.net /p_xinjiang_map.html (252 words)

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