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Pilal
Pilal (; from Mandarin Chinese Pilale, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency or ) is a township of Akto County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the west of the northeastern part of the county, the township covers an area of 186 square kilometers with a population of 46,981 (as of 2015). It has 22 administrative villages and a farm under its jurisdiction. Its seat is at ''Pilal Village'' (). Name The name of Piral is from Uighur language, that evolved from the word "pul-al", meaning "paying" or "pay money" (). The place was named Pilal because there used to be a market in this place 270 years ago (about 1750s). History In 1958, Pilal Commune was established (). In 1967 during the Cultural Revolution, Pilal Commune was renamed Hongqi Commune (literally 'Red Flag Commune'; ). In 1984, the commune became Pilal Township. In September 2017, it was reported that a policewoman from Pilal had claimed that "several thousand detainees" were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akto County
Akto County (also known as Aqtu, Aktu, or Aketao; ) is a county in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The county borders Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and has two towns, 11 townships, four state-owned farms and a plant nursery under its jurisdiction with the county seat being Akto Town. The county contains an area of and has a population of 231,756 (as of 2017). Akto is the westernmost border county of China. A point north of the Markansu River () on the China–Tajikistan border is the westernmost point of China. The county is located in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, east of the Pamir Plateau, and the western edge of the Tarim Basin. It is located between 73°26'5" - 76°43'31" east longitude and 37°41'28" - 39°29'55" north latitude. It is bordered by Wuqia County and Shufu County to the north, by Shule County and 41st Regiment of the XPCC across Yuepuhu River () to the northeast, by Yengisar County (Yingjisha), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akto Town
Akto Town () is a town and the county seat of Akto County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the northeast of the county, the town covers an area of 136 square kilometers with a population of 21,560 (as of 2017). It has 19 communities and 9 villages under its jurisdiction, its seat is at ''Gongbaitierik'' (). Name The name of Akto is from Kyrgyz language, meaning “White Mountain” () and named after the oasis located under a snowy mountain. Geography The town of Akto is located in the middle of the alluvial fan of the Kushan River () and its terrain is slowly inclined from the southwest to the northeast. The town is bordered by Pilal Township with the Baishikan Channel () to the north, by Yumai Township to the southeast and by Baren Township with the Qiereke Channel () to the west. Its maximum length is 11 kilometers west to east, the maximum length is 16 kilometers north to south, the total area is 136 square kilometers and the arable land area is 1,618. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barin Township
Barin Township, also spelled Baren (Sourced to the ''Xinjiang Public Security Gazette'' (), pages 790-795) (; ), is a township of Akto County (Aketao), Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture (Kezilesu), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The township is located on the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert at the foot of the Pamir Mountains. Located in the middle west of the northeastern part of the county, the township covers an area of 1,087 square kilometers with a population of 38,706 (as of 2017). It has 19 administrative villages under its jurisdiction. Its seat is at ''Barin Village'' (). Name Barin Township is located between the Gez River (Gez Darya; ) to the west and the Kushan River (K'u-shan Ho; ) to the east. The word "Baihal" () from the Arabic language refers generally to the area between two rivers. The pronunciation of this word gradually evolved into the Uyghur word "barin", which became the name of Barin Township. Barin is transliterated into Chinese cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Flag (politics)
In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of socialism, communism, Marxism, trade unions, left-wing politics, and historically of anarchism. It has been associated with left-wing politics since the French Revolution (1789–1799).Brink, Jan te''Robespierre and the Red Terror (1899). Socialists adopted the symbol during the Revolutions of 1848 and it became a symbol of communism as a result of its use by the Paris Commune of 1871. The flags of several socialist states, including China, Vietnam and former Soviet Union, are explicitly based on the original red flag. The red flag is also used as a symbol by some democratic socialists and social democrats, for example the League of Social Democrats of Hong Kong, the French Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. The Labour Party in Britain used it until the late 1980s. It was the inspiration for the socialist anthem, '' The Red Flag''. Prior to the French Revolution and in some contexts even to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townships Of China
Townships (), formally township-level divisions (), are the basic level (fourth-level administrative units) of political divisions in China. They are similar to municipalities and communes in other countries and in turn may contain village committees and villages. In 1995 there were 29,502 townships and 17,532 towns (a total of 47,034 township-level divisions) in China. Much like other levels of government in mainland China, the township's governance is divided between the Communist Party Township Secretary, and the " county magistrate" (). The township party secretary, along with the township's party committee, determines policy. The magistrate is in charge of administering the daily affairs of government and executing policies as determined by the party committee. A township official is the lowest-level ranked official in the civil service hierarchy; in practice, however, the township party secretary and magistrate can amass high levels of personal power. A township governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uighur Language
The Uyghur or Uighur language (; , , , or , , , , CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki), is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8-11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur speakers are located in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, and various other countries have Uyghur-speaking expatriate communities. Uyghur is an official language of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; is widely used in both social and official spheres, as well as in print, television, and radio; and is used as a common language by other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Uyghur belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, which includes languages such as Uzbek. Like many other Turkic languages, Uyghur displays vowel harmony and agglutination, lacks noun classes or grammatical gender, and is a left-branching language with subject–ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celsius
The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius scale (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the Kelvin scale. The degree Celsius (symbol: °C) can refer to a specific temperature on the Celsius scale or a unit to indicate a difference or range between two temperatures. It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), who developed a similar temperature scale in 1742. Before being renamed in 1948 to honour Anders Celsius, the unit was called ''centigrade'', from the Latin ''centum'', which means 100, and ''gradus'', which means steps. Most major countries use this scale; the other major scale, Fahrenheit, is still used in the United States, some island territories, and Liberia. The Kelvin scale is of use in the sciences, with representing absolute zero. Since 1743 the Celsius scale has been based on 0 °C for the freezing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frost
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above- freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a gas) to ice (a solid) as the water vapor reaches the freezing point. In temperate climates, it most commonly appears on surfaces near the ground as fragile white crystals; in cold climates, it occurs in a greater variety of forms. The propagation of crystal formation occurs by the process of nucleation. The ice crystals of frost form as the result of fractal process development. The depth of frost crystals varies depending on the amount of time they have been accumulating, and the concentration of the water vapor (humidity). Frost crystals may be invisible (black), clear ( translucent), or white; if a mass of frost crystals scatters light in all directions, the coating of frost appears white. Types of frost include crystalline frost ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arid Climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk''), is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert climates are dry and hold little moisture, quickly evaporating the already little rainfall they receive. Covering 14.2% of earth's land area, hot deserts are the second most common type of climate on earth after the polar climate. There are two variations of a desert climate according to the Köppen climate classification: a hot desert climate (''BWh''), and a cold desert climate (''BWk''). To delineate "hot desert climates" from "cold desert climates", there are three widely used isotherms: most commonly a mean annual temperature of , or sometimes the coldest month's mean temperature of , so that a location with a ''BW'' type climate with the appropriate temperature above whichever isotherm is being used is classified as "hot arid sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xinjiang Production And Construction Corps
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (), also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("The Corps"), is a state-owned economic and paramilitary organization in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In its history, the XPCC has built farms, towns, and cities, provided land and employment to disbanded military units, and re-settled Han migrants from other parts of China as part of a campaign of sinicization. It operates prisons and publicly traded companies. Function The XPCC has administrative authority over medium-sized cities, settlements and farms in Xinjiang. It provides services such as healthcare, policing, judiciary, and education. Nominally subject to the XUAR, its internal affairs, including city and reclaimed land administration, are separate from that of the Autonomous Region and under direct control of the central government. The XPCC has been described to operate as a "state within a state." History The XPCC draws from the traditional Chinese ''tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
41st Regiment (XPCC)
41st Regiment, 41st Infantry Regiment or 41st Armoured Regiment may refer to: Infantry regiments * 41st Dogras, an infantry regiment of the British Indian army * 41st Infantry Regiment (Greece) * 41st Infantry Regiment (Philippine Commonwealth), a unit of the Philippine Commonwealth Army * 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot (United Kingdom), a unit of the British Army * 41st Infantry Regiment (United States), a unit of the United States Army Armoured regiments * 41 Armoured Regiment (India), a unit of the Union of India Army * 41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment (United Kingdom), a unit of the British Army * 40th/41st Royal Tank Regiment (United Kingdom), a unit of the British Army Bomber regiments * 41st Bomber Aviation Regiment, a aviation unit of the Yugoslav Air Force Engineer regiments * 41 Combat Engineer Regiment, a unit of the Canadian Army American Civil War regiments * 41st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, a unit of the Union (North) Army during the America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shufu County
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 . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 360,000. According to a list obtained and partially verified by the Associated Press, Shufu county has the highest imprisonment rate of any location in the world. Name The names of "Shufu County" and nearby "Shule County", transliterations of local language names from Han Dynasty corresponds to its Uyghur names, "Kona Xahar" (meaning 'old city') and "Yengi Xahar" (New City) respectively. The names for the two counties in both languages may share their origins in languages of the Saka people, residents of Kashgar area before its linguistic Turkification in as late as the 11th century. History The county was established in 1882. In 2013, Awat Township (Awati; ئاۋات يېزىسى / 阿瓦提乡) and Yëngi’östeng T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
