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Kalpin County is a county in the
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC: previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads ...
and is under the administration of the
Aksu Prefecture Aksu PrefectureThe official spelling according to is located in mid-Western Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and 2.714 million inhabitants at the 2020 census whom 715,319 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Aksu urban district. T ...
. The overwhelmingly
Uyghur Uyghur may refer to: * Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia (West China) ** Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs *** Old Uyghur language, a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur K ...
population of the county lives on oases at the base of the
Tian Shan The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, meaning the "Mountains of God/Heaven", is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia. The highest peak is Jengish Chokusu at high and located in Kyrgyzstan. Its lowest point is ...
(Tangri Tagh) mountains and on the edge of the
Taklamakan Desert The Taklamakan Desert ( ) is a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the ...
.


History

In 1902, a ''xiancheng'' () was created at Kalpin. In 1930, a ''xianzhi'' () was created at Kalpin. According to ''
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'', in 2008, Chinese authorities demolished a Uyghur mosque from the Upper Kumtagh village in Kalpin County because the mosque was said to be illegally built and said to have been conducting illegal religious activities. On February 20, 2009, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck at a location from the county seats of Kalpin and Akqi counties. 207 aftershocks had been recorded by 11 AM on February 22. More than ten thousand houses were damaged and 182 were destroyed. Forty tents were set up and 12,400 people were relocated. The county received one million
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in rescue funds from nearby government offices. On April 12, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Abdulbasit Ablimit (Abdubasit Ablimit), 17, of Qum'eriq village in Yurqi (Yurchi, Yu'erqi), was shot and killed by police while riding a motorcycle. Two other Uyghurs were injured. Four to five hundred people from their village participated in a protest at the county office demanding that the police officer be punished according to law. More than thirty of the protesters were detained and some were beaten. ''
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'' reported that on the following Wednesday, a man in Urumqi was detained by police for spreading rumors about the incident. The
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condemned the killing. On April 3, 2015, Aqal (ئاچال Aqiale, Achal), then a township, was made a town. According to research presented in ''
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'', Xinjiang Nuodun Garment Co., Ltd. (), a company based in Kalpin County, was founded in July 2017. The company has made shipments of men and women's trousers to four companies in the United States. The company is also mentioned in the context of
Aksu Prefecture Aksu PrefectureThe official spelling according to is located in mid-Western Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and 2.714 million inhabitants at the 2020 census whom 715,319 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Aksu urban district. T ...
's wider policy related to re-education camps in the ''Aksu Daily''.


Geography

The county is made up of territory in the
Tian Shan The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, meaning the "Mountains of God/Heaven", is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia. The highest peak is Jengish Chokusu at high and located in Kyrgyzstan. Its lowest point is ...
mountain range and the
Taklamakan Desert The Taklamakan Desert ( ) is a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region. Located inside the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang, it is bounded by the Kunlun Mountains to the south, the Pamir Mountains to the west, the Tian Shan range to the ...
. Kalpin, Gezlik and Yurqi are located west of Aqal. Qilan is located east of Aqal on the border with
Aksu City Aksu (, ; zh, s=阿克苏, p=Ākèsū) is a city in and the seat of Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, lying at the northern edge of the Tarim Basin. The name Aksu literally means "white water" (in Turkic) and is used for both the oasis town and the ...
. Mountain ranges in the county include Bozake Tagh, Kelpin Chöl Tagh, Chong Kizil Tagh, Kankerin Tagh, Chong Korum Tagh and Akin Bek Tagh. Rivers and streams in the county include Koram Boghuz, Chilan Su and Sargan.


Climate


Administrative divisions

Kalpin County included three
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and two
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Economy

Kalpin County's economy is primarily agricultural, producing wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton, etc. Animal husbandry is also strong, including the raising of camels, sheep and other animals. Mineral resources include sulfur. Industries include mining, concrete and cotton processing among others. Spoons and other tableware made from the fragrant wood of apricot trees are a traditional product produced in the county. There is 126,000 '' mu'' of
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in the county. , there was about 4,270 acres (28,164 '' mu'') of cultivated land in Kalpin.


Demographics

As of 2015, 53,804 of the 55,425 residents of the county were
Uyghur Uyghur may refer to: * Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia (West China) ** Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs *** Old Uyghur language, a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur K ...
, 1,501 were
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and 120 were from other ethnic groups. As of 1999, 97.31% of the population of Kalpin County was Uyghur and 2.54% of the population was Han Chinese.


Transportation

*
China National Highway 314 China National Highway 314 (G314) (sometimes referred to as Gansu Provincial Highway 314) runs southwest from Urumqi, Xinjiang towards the Khunjerab Pass, which is on the northern border of the Gilgit–Baltistan territory in Pakistan-administe ...


Historical maps

Historical English-language maps including Kalpin: File:STANFORD(1917) p61 PLATE19. SINKIANG (14597194848).jpg, Map including Kalpin (1917) File:A-k`o-su NK-44 (1950) - panoramio.jpg, Map including Kalpin (labeled as K'O-P'ING (KELPIN)) and surrounding region from the
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(
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, 1950) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 f-6c.jpg, Map including Kalpin (
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, 1981) File:Operational Navigation Chart F-6, 6th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Kalpin (labeled as K'o-p'ing (Kalpin)) (
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, 1985)


See also

* '' Glycomyces tarimensis'', discovered in soil from the county


Notes


References


External links


《远方的家》 20200129 美食过大年 最是难忘家乡味, CCTV中文国际
(includes a segment on food in Kalpin County) {{Authority control County-level divisions of Xinjiang Aksu Prefecture