- Huocheng County
The Huocheng (Qorghas) County ( _zh. 霍城县) is situated within the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and under the administration of theIli Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture . It's located betweenYining and the border toKazakhstan , occupies an area of 5,466 km² and has a population of 360,000 (2004 estimate). Including the Han and Uyghur nationalities, there are twenty nine ethnic groups living in the county.North of Huocheng City is the
Tianshan District ; facing to the south lies theIli River . Its Western side is China's border to Kazakhstan;Yining lies about 45 km to the east.A China-Kazakhstan railway link through Huocheng is currenty under construction and scheduled to finish at the end of 2009, becoming China's second railway link to
Central Asia besidesAlashankou . [ [http://www.stnn.cc/china/200805/t20080510_776541.html 中国2010年将建成第二条通往中亚铁路_星岛环球网 ] ]Towns and villages
The county includes 5 towns (镇), 3 villages (乡), and 2 ethnic-minority villages (民族乡).
The towns:
*Shuiding (水定) (the county seat);
*Qingsuihe ( 清水河),
*Lucaogou (芦草沟),
* Huiyuan (惠远),
* Harbulak (萨尔布拉克, Harbulake)Villages:
* Langan (兰干),
* Sandaohe (三道河),
* YichegashanXibe village (伊车嘎善锡伯族乡),
* Sangong Hui village (三宫回族乡),
* Daxigou (大西沟).Economy
In agriculture, the local population cultivate
wheat , corn and other crops includingsugar beet ,cotton ,tobacco ,apples ,animal husbandry withcattle andsheep .The main
mineral s extracted in the area includecoal ,phosphorus ,iron ,gold ,silver ,copper ,limestone , Icelandspar andmarble , etc.References
External links
* [http://www.xzqh.org/quhua/65xj/4023hc.htm Huocheng County information] , at the site of
Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture zh icon
* [http://www.9654.com/m/huocheng.htm County Map] zh icon
* [http://www.huyangshu.com/admin/news_view.asp?newsid=1618 Thoughts about the history of Yining City and Huocheng County] (the writer's point of view on how the places "should" be called) zh icon
*Henry Lansdell , "Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv", vol. I. [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC08187146&id=oIVlRw3fSOAC Full text] available atGoogle Books ; there is also a 2001 facsimile reprint of the 1885 edition, ISBN 1402177623. (Chapters XIV-XVI in Volume I describe Lansdell's visit to the area in the early 1880s, soon after the Russian withdrawal). en icon
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