Fukang is a
county-level city
A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...
in
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Its area is and its population in 2007 was reported as approximately 1.5 million.
Fukang is located in Northern Xinjiang in
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, north of
Ürümqi
Ürümqi, , is the capital of the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the ...
.
History
As early as the
Han and
Tang dynasties, Fukang was an important stopover on the ancient
Silk Road
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. The
Qianlong Emperor
The Qianlong Emperor (25 September 17117 February 1799), also known by his temple name Emperor Gaozong of Qing, personal name Hongli, was the fifth Emperor of China, emperor of the Qing dynasty and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China pr ...
of the
Qing dynasty
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established it as a county in 1776. Its status was changed to a city in November 1992.
Subdivisions
Fukang is made up of 3
subdistricts, 4
towns
A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
, 1
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
, and 2
ethnic townships.
Climate
Economy
In 2007, Fukang City's
GDP was 4.822 billion
yuan, 2.3 times that of 2002, an average annual increase of 17.6%. Per capita GDP reached 30,000 yuan, 2.1 times that of 2002, an average annual increase of 16.5%.
Fukang's economy relies primarily on
heavy industry
Heavy industry is an industry that involves one or more characteristics such as large and heavy products; large and heavy equipment and facilities (such as heavy equipment, large machine tools, huge buildings and large-scale infrastructure); o ...
, agriculture and tourism.
Among the tourist attractions in the area are
Bogda Peak and the Heavenly Lake of Tianshan.
Bogeda Biosphere Reserve
The Bogeda Biosphere Reserve (, ), also known in English as Bogda Biosphere Reserve, is located in the eastern region of the Tianshan Mountains in China's Xinjiang Province. Local residents named the area the Sangong River Valley after one of th ...
, in the east part of the Tianshan Mountains, was designated a member of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere reserve in 1990.
Irrigated agriculture in the Fukang is enabled by streams flowing from the Tian Shan mountains, as well as by the eastern branch of the
Irtysh–Karamay–Ürümqi Canal, which crosses the
Gurbantünggüt Desert, bringing to Fukang water from the
Irtysh River
The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan. It is the chief tributary of the Ob and is also the longest tributary in the world.
The river's source lies in the Mongolian Altai in Dzungaria (the northern part of Xinjiang, China) cl ...
.
Transport
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China National Highway 216
Special facts
In 2000 a 925 "gemstone meteorite", a
pallasite meteorite known as
Fukang meteorite, was found near Fukang. It is considered a large and a rare of meteorite. In 2008 the main mass was offered for sale at
Bonhams
Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought t ...
for a value of US $2 million. However the lot remained unsold.
Fukang Meteorite Auction Bonhams
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Notes
References
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County-level divisions of Xinjiang
Populated places in Xinjiang
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
National Sanitary City