Urumqi, 乌鲁木齐

Urumchi or Ürümqi -with a population of about 2.6 million, is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country. It is also farther away from sea than any other large city in the world.
Economy
Ürümqi is a major industrial center within Xinjiang. Ürümqi, together with Karamay and Bayin'gholin account for 64.5% of the total industrial output of Xinjiang. Ürümqi is also the largest consumer center in the region, recording ¥19.1 billion retail sales of consumer goods in 2004, accounting for 33.9% of the region's total retail value. The GDP per capita was ¥22,820 (ca. US$2,850) in 2004 [1]. Ürümqi has been a central developmental target for the "Develop the West" project that the Central Government is pursuing.


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Great pics. I went to Urumqi two years ago. It was a very modern city. It also has a lot of ethnic diversity, being in the Uighur autonomous region of Northwest China.

I like it that they incorporate a lot of Islamic Uighur architecture with their buildings.

wow, just as i begin to think i've seen the entire scope of china's modernization, more pics comes in and prove me wrong. it's amazing to think that china's modernization can come so far inland, all the way to an isolated oasis in the desert. now, urumqi looks like any typical chinese city, why, it even looks more clean than chongqing! (chongqing should catch up once the 3 gorges dam opens...)

i love urumqi

A very interesting Chinese city. Islamic taste mix with Chinese, also arabic and Chinese characters alongside is very special.

I've been to Urumqi and I absolutely love it.

I was quite honestly surprised by how developed it is. I've never seen a single picture of Urumqi before I arrived and no offense but I was expecting nothing more than a few tents hehe.

During my three day stay there, it felt no different than any other major Chinese city except for the Islamic influence.

A very interesting Chinese city. Islamic taste mix with Chinese, also arabic and Chinese characters alongside is very special.

Agreed. Xinjiang province is a different world altogether.

Amazing, The city and its people always render me speechless

A very special place indeed

Although pics is too old.But is not bad.


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Nice pictures!!! Urumqi is the most land-locked city in the world. Usually after hearing that, people would think its a small crappy city. The pictures do just the OPPOSITE!!!

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the city is not bad and has a spectacular natural view.
BTW, does anyone here konw wht the altitude of Xinjiang is? cuz as i can remember, it is pretty low, although it is surrounded by lots of huge mountains.

Thanks, very lovely pictures of Urumqi! It makes me miss it :)

Thank you, jingtian59. You've done a great job to show vivid Urumqi here. Keep on please.

Urumqi new trade capital for the west
AP
Christopher Bodeen
Monday, March 13, 2006

Above the shouts of Afghan and Pakistani traders, a voice booms in heavily accented Putonghua in the airport in Urumqi, Xinjiang.

"You've got 20,000 meters of cloth?" a bearded trader thunders into a phone. "Great, but don't bother waking the boss. I'll call when I land."

Merchants from Lahore, Karachi and Kabul are struggling to get their purchases aboard a flight to Islamabad.

Businessmen in skull caps and traditional shalwar kameez outfits heave massive bundles to the check-in counter. Off to one side, their partners guard stacks of radio-controlled planes, talking dolls and stuffed animals.

Regional traders are flocking to Urumqi, now a city of four million people. They are part of a revival of a modern-day Silk Road powered by mobile phones and air travel.

Pakistan's trade with China grew 26 percent to a record US$3 billion (HK$23.4 billion) in 2004. It is projected to grow by another US$2 billion for 2005.

Sino-Indian trade has soared in recent years, from a mere US$1 billion in 1991 to US$13.6 billion last year.

The growth can be traced in part to Beijing's drive to lift incomes in the west. Xinjiang has seen its economy boom over the past half-decade: its total trade more than tripled between 2000 and 2004 to US$6 billion.

Trade is conducted in languages including English, the region's native Uygur and, increasingly, Putonghua.

Urumqi now boasts 50-story office blocks, gaudy stores and nightclubs. For sheer glitz and opportunity, there isn't a metropolis to rival it within 2,000 kilometers.

Traders say there's still plenty of room for growth, particularly if free- trade zones are set up.

Yet, like many watching the country's explosive growth, China-based shoe manufacturer Kasheef Gulzar worries that its massive exports will overwhelm businesses such as Pakistan's once-vaunted leather industry.

"It's hard to match their design and quality. They're becoming a kind of center of gravity for regional trade."

Urumchi or Ürümqi -with a population of about 2.6 million, is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the northwest of the country. It is also farther away from sea than any other large city in the world.
Economy
Ürümqi is a major industrial center within Xinjiang. Ürümqi, together with Karamay and Bayin'gholin account for 64.5% of the total industrial output of Xinjiang. Ürümqi is also the largest consumer center in the region, recording ¥19.1 billion retail sales of consumer goods in 2004, accounting for 33.9% of the region's total retail value. The GDP per capita was ¥22,820 (ca. US$2,850) in 2004 [1]. Ürümqi has been a central developmental target for the "Develop the West" project that the Central Government is pursuing.


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Here are some photos of this great city of China
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:


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Turkmenba...ypjak, Mosque

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Senior hightschool


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View from the Peoples Park & DownTown Urumqi

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Wind Turbine-Alternative Energy is starting to heat up around here little by little, Far West China is growing at a fast level day bay day....

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More of this amazing place!
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come on you got to check out this place by you self!!


by Victor A. Santiago

Nice pictures.

nice shots! more!

Great job!Thanks!

Its a great city, far away from "everything" else! Will visit the city if i have time and money someday! ;)

Frankly speaking, I expected this city to be a kind of "slum" in the middle of nowhere. China is always surprising me.

oh great! they just moved the thread! :D

wow~ amazing, thx for the pics!

Nice pictures. Urumqi looks huge, are they planning a metro anytime in the near future?

Nice pictures. Urumqi looks huge, are they planning a metro anytime in the near future?



ummh, they already got a metro, can you believe that :lol:?, China always amazing :booze:

You can find thousands of photos of Urumqi in here:

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There are over 260 pages of photos.

a very unique city in the west China, great thread bud.

ummh, they already got a metro, can you believe that :lol:?, China always amazing :booze:

Um... are you joking? I have not heard anything of that sort from any sources anywhere?

Um... are you joking? I have not heard anything of that sort from any sources anywhere?

no im not joking :lol:

Those kids look like Jews.

Nice pictures. Any pictures of Eurasian girls. I think they are the best.

nice city, more picz plz

Kashi is an old town of Xinjiang http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=600323

It is farther away from sea than any other large city in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cr%C3%BCmqi

and it is a hottest place in China!

by hemes0506, beijingupdates.com

新疆拥有中国六分之一的国土，乌鲁木齐是中国新疆维吾尔自治区的首府，是新疆政治、经济、文化的中心，中国西部对外开放的重要门户，是新欧亚大陆桥中国西段的桥头堡，地处亚洲大陆地理中心。行政区总面积1.2万平方公里，其中城市建成区235.9平方公里。全市总人口235万，其中城市人口就占90%以上。现辖七区一县，两个国家级开发区和一个出口加工区。

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乌鲁木齐市在全新疆地区生产总值及其它各项经济指标中占在四分之一以上的比重，人均GDP超过4000美元。在中国西部12个首府、省会城市中，综合竞争实力位居前列，被誉为“中国西部明珠”。

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文化独具特色。新疆古称西域，历史上乌鲁木齐就是古丝绸之路新北道上的重镇，东西方经济文化的交流中心，是西方文化和中国文化的荟萃之地，呈现出多元文化的特质，其特点是开放、热情、豪爽和奋进，是中亚地区最具活力的城市。

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乌鲁木齐市北有准东油田，西有克拉玛依油田，南有塔里木油田，东有吐哈油田，且地处准噶尔储煤带的中部，市辖区内煤炭储量就达100亿吨以上，被称为“油海上的煤船”。此外还蕴藏丰富的各种有色、稀有的矿产资源。境内天山冰川和永久性积雪被称为“天然固体水库”。山区有繁茂的天然森林和天然草场，可利用的野生植物300余种。光、热和风能资源也极为丰富，有亚洲最大风力发电厂。这些自然资源，为乌鲁木齐的经济发展奠定了坚实的基础。

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区位优势明显。乌鲁木齐是中国连接中亚地区乃至欧洲的陆路交通枢纽，现已成为中国扩大向西开放、开展对外经济文化交流的重要窗口。在世界商贸发达城市所占有的沿海、沿边、沿河、沿线四大地理要素中，乌鲁木齐即占沿边之利，又得沿线之益，这是新疆、也是乌鲁木齐在西部大开发中最大的地理优势。特别是随着新亚欧大陆桥的全线贯通，乌鲁木齐作为新亚欧大陆桥中国短的西桥头堡，在中国西部乃至中亚经济发展中的地位和作用日益增强。乌鲁木齐机场为中国五大门户机场之一，已开通国际、国内、区内航线100多条。

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旅游业发达。乌鲁木齐自然风光优美，天山山脉分布着高山冰雪景观、山地森林景观、草原景观，为游客观光、探险提供了丰富的内容，各民族的文化艺术、风情习俗，构成了具有民族特色的旅游人文景观。新疆国际大巴扎、新疆民街、二道桥民族风情一条街等带有浓郁新疆民俗风情的景区景点，享誉国内外。丝绸之路冰雪风情游，丝绸之路服装服饰节等带有丝绸之路文化特色的节庆会展活动，已成为乌鲁木齐特有的城市名片。

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产业结构比较合理。乌鲁木齐第三产业（流通服务业）较为发达，在GDP中所占的比重为61.5%。乌鲁木齐拥有百余家星级酒店，三星以上达到60余家，其中五星级酒店8家，拥有完善的服务业和完备的基础设施，为世界各地的客商创造了良好的投资合作环境；拥有健全的商贸流通体系，进出口贸易较为发达。

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Wow, the expansion of Urumuqi Intl' airport is going so fast! Like the design of the new terminal, I heard that the roof of this new terminal represents the white peaks of Tianshan mountain.:banana:

There is now an Urumqi, China photo thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=676054) over in Kazakhstan forum. Check it out :)

There is now an Urumqi, China photo thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=676054) over in Kazakhstan forum. Check it out :)

Thanks :)

i've been living in this town fo the past 18 years.to my great great surprise.the senior highschool you c above.is my seniorhighschool!no.1 high school in Urumchi.i was totally shocked when i found that my school appeared in shyscrapercity.you know .i was so exciting.Urumchi is really a beautiful city.except a little dry.people here are friendly.food here is always amazing.maybe you would say that Urumchi is far from the traditional CHINA you see when you here
thx for sharing.at least i've found sth from my past days.especially the senioryear that really unforgettable in my life.:)
thx...and here i find some pics about my senior high school.
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the chinese in red means:we are puting all our hearts to the earthquake in sichuan and we will stand with them for ever .we will pray for them for ever
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this is....you c ..morning execise...by the way..i hate this most..
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this is our mainbuilding.which was built by a philanthropist form hongkong in 1995.
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the words on the top of the pic means:NO.1 high school in Urumchi .that's the school's name in english.

no metro and subway.that'z for sure. maybe in the near future we could have .but now ...you know .beijing wants to set a huge and awesome city in order to link to the middle asia .Urumchi is the city.you know silk road?

pics from baidu.com

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I love this city and suprise for the modern cicyscape. Long time ago I heared about the silk road and moslem province in china. In my opinion this province may be only desert or grass land.
Some question for urumqi forumer:
In the other pic/forum, many time I see the water inside urumqi or surrounding urumqi. What kind of this water (lake, river, dam, and absolutely not sea water)???

some question again for urumqi forumer:
I saw the double written in chinese and arabic.
1. What language in written arabic?
2. When the people use chinese and when arabic?
3. How about in the school or university?

I like this city...

some question again for urumqi forumer:
I saw the double written in chinese and arabic.
1. What language in written arabic?
2. When the people use chinese and when arabic?
3. How about in the school or university?

i can answer you on the last question for i had several ethnical korean and tibetan students and colleagues. in PRC, there are roughly two kinds of schools, the common ones and ethnical ones. in the first kind, the chinese is teaching language and no ethnical language specialized study. in the second ones, students study their ethnical language and other curriculums whose the text-books are bilingual. children with any ethnicl backdrop can choose to study any kind of those school as they wish. in the eleven-plus, the minorities can get additional academic performance for their ethnical identiy, that is about 10 scores and total score is 750. many ethnical students in colledge can enjoy additional subsidy and grantings than chinese cannt, especially in the 5 nationality universities of the central, middle china, east china, west china, south china. they also have there newspapers, radios and tv stations in their languages.
perhaps, you donnt know, chinese higher-schooling-entrance-tests are extremely cruel, even 1 score in which can shut 1000 students out of college study right. Hence, the addtional 10-score-favor to minority is very unfaire to us Han-chinese.
what is not only limited to that, the minority have no obligation of compliance to the "one-child-policy" , thus they can breed natually. And special huge-extent tax-cut in the minority-autonomy area. Even in any level of governments, there must be at least one leading high officer is minority chinese. minority chinese have more vote-weight in general and local election, either.
i dont know where you are from, but i am sure no country does the same kind things to minority as far as china does.

some question again for urumqi forumer:
I saw the double written in chinese and arabic.
1. What language in written arabic?
2. When the people use chinese and when arabic?
3. How about in the school or university?

Chinese Uyghur mostly use a modified form of Arabic as their writing system. Although it is Arabic script, Uyghur is in the Turkic language family. China also introduced a Latin based Uyghur script based on the ones the Soviets made, and I notice some Uyghurs use the Latin one too.

minority language policy from what I read, depends on the region. but because outside of Urumqi, most areas are mostly Uyghur, Uyghur language is usually learned first and then Mandarin is learned in school at an early age. By university level, Mandarin is certainly a prerequsite because there are many courses that can only be taught in Mandarin and not in a local language (i.e very few Uyghur, Tibetan, or whatever materials on say, Chemistry).

As for the leniency on Child rules for minorities, it should be clarified that it applies to minorities that are under 10 million. Most minorities are smaller than 10 million except for the Zhuang, although the Manchus should be above 10 by now, andm maybe the Uyghur

i dont know where you are from, but i am sure no country does the same kind things to minority as far as china does.


Actually most countries do the same thing to their minorites as China does. I'm from New Zealand and we used the same trick of flooding their communities with our own people under the guise of modernising them, undermining the usefulness of their language, making their customs unviable, and then when they are were nearly dead as a culture and useful for no more than tourist photos, we gave them all sorts of welfare and educational advantages to compensate for the role we played in destroying their identity.

No, not unique to China. Australia, New Zealand, and all of the American continent have done the same thing. It's all quite natural.

^^ that's NZ's problem, not China's.

The Uyghurs are free to move out of the cities that were built by the Han people, or not send their children to the schools that teach in the language spoken by the rest of the country. They are free to trade with their own people, live among their own people, and make a living out of their traditional trades. No one is forcing them to pose for tourists, or speak a different language or use any of the modernities provided by the Han people.

^^ that's NZ's problem, not China's.

The Uyghurs are free to move out of the cities that were built by the Han people, or not send their children to the schools that teach in the language spoken by the rest of the country. They are free to trade with their own people, live among their own people, and make a living out of their traditional trades. No one is forcing them to pose for tourists, or speak a different language or use any of the modernities provided by the Han people.

But you don't get it, what you said above applies to my county as well. The brilliance of the trick is that nobody forces them to do anything, either in China or New Zealand. We just set it up so that no other way is a realistic option for them.

Aren't we clever?

^^ I know exactly what you mean. However, the Uyghurs live vastly different lifestyles as the Maoris in NZ. Maoris are everywhere in NZ, the two situations are apples and oranges, and cannot be compared.

OK thankyou for answer, I come from Indonesia. I will share about in my country:
In my country, we have many many laguange depend on region maybe over than 100 kind. But in the school, the teacher use national languange (Bahasa Indonesia) also texbook. Local languange use daily outside the school. Except Jakarta as capital and Banten, all province apply local languange as part of curriculum in elementary school up to junior high school. So some school apply 3 language i.e Bahasa Indonesia, Local language and foreign languange (English).
Just share....

i can answer you on the last question for i had several ethnical korean and tibetan students and colleagues. in PRC, there are roughly two kinds of schools, the common ones and ethnical ones. in the first kind, the chinese is teaching language and no ethnical language specialized study. in the second ones, students study their ethnical language and other curriculums whose the text-books are bilingual. children with any ethnicl backdrop can choose to study any kind of those school as they wish. in the eleven-plus, the minorities can get additional academic performance for their ethnical identiy, that is about 10 scores and total score is 750. many ethnical students in colledge can enjoy additional subsidy and grantings than chinese cannt, especially in the 5 nationality universities of the central, middle china, east china, west china, south china. they also have there newspapers, radios and tv stations in their languages.
perhaps, you donnt know, chinese higher-schooling-entrance-tests are extremely cruel, even 1 score in which can shut 1000 students out of college study right. Hence, the addtional 10-score-favor to minority is very unfaire to us Han-chinese.
what is not only limited to that, the minority have no obligation of compliance to the "one-child-policy" , thus they can breed natually. And special huge-extent tax-cut in the minority-autonomy area. Even in any level of governments, there must be at least one leading high officer is minority chinese. minority chinese have more vote-weight in general and local election, either.
i dont know where you are from, but i am sure no country does the same kind things to minority as far as china does.


In comparison, in Indonesia, as i understand from my Indonesian friends, in the past, as recent as 10 years ago, Chinese (in China context that will be Han Chinese) is banned in schools. There are 8 million Chinese in Indonesia FYI, as much as there are Turks in China.

The Chinese in indonesia are not allowed to have Chinese names, Chinese words or characters are not allowed to be shown in public.

Please I would like to remind you all this is a cityscape section, not politics, ethnic issues and please leave Indonesia out of this.

Please I would like to remind you all this is a cityscape section, not politics, ethnic issues and please leave Indonesia out of this.

Thanks snow, i only explain about language and apologize if OOT. Please continue with new urumqi pic.....

Thanks snow, i only explain about language and apologize if OOT. Please continue with new urumqi pic.....

You sound very proud of your country's education system for different ethnic groups, but...it's horrible for the Chinese living in your country, why don't you help them send a email to your president with their rights to learn/inherit their own Chinese culture.

You sound very proud of your country's education system for different ethnic groups, but...it's horrible for the Chinese living in you country, why don't you help them send a email to your president with their rights to learn their own Chinese culture.

No need to send email to president because since Mr. Soeharto replaced by Mr. Habibie as president, Indonesia government allows chinese culture like barongsai,etc. also mandarine language applied in selective school, and chinese new year (we call imlek) also become national holiday...

and for your information small riot still happen in our country but not including chinese or other migrant. Only local people vs local such as in Papua.
Sorry for OOT again...pls continue the cityscape for urumqi.....

^^ thanks for your information, you are welcome

Pls stay in topic guys.

Pls stay in topic guys.

Agree but i do not have some pic, pls share more pic

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Thanks for sharing the pictures. I like this one the most,

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7freedom7!!! i got you,you "stolen" my pics :nuts::banana::nocrook::cheers::drunk::carrot:

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haha It's a small world :cheers:

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I can't help comparing this building to Liberty Place.

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Please post some old pics of Urumqi in the 60s, 80s... I'd love to see the progress :)

Obviously it must have looked way better in the past, East Turkestan used to be an amazing paradise that was destroyed and opressed by the evil Communists.

Thanks for sharing the pictures. I like this one the most,

Hi Big-dog, why do you like that pic? the building or the girl or the street or the swimming pool?

All of them combined! :lol:

long long time nobody post the urumqi pic...pls share the update especially after riot

those are some nice camera work...thanks for sharing

It looks a pleasant place to live

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^^ great photos, Urumqi is becoming a metropolitan of west China.

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Could you describe this road (name or from where to where).....
Seems a very long road, how about the rest area?

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New images of Urumqi



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^^
great pics..the new glass buildings is a great addition to the skyline...love it.

But modernization makes each city looking similar from above. It seems impossible in China to build a unique modern place full of local cultures in architecture and street life.

But modernization makes each city looking similar from above. It seems impossible in China to build a unique modern place full of local cultures in architecture and street life.

Most cities in other countries look the same as well. Many English cities look just like smaller versions of London. Many American cities (with the exception of NYC, Boston and DC) all look very similar. Japanese cities look just like smaller versions of Tokyo.

In fact, I feel like China has one of the more varied regional cities. Xi'an is full of imitation Tang dynasty architecture (some might find this tacky b/c they are still modern buildings, but IMO it would be very appreciated decades from now). Manzhouli looks very different from Suzhou, which looks very different from Xiamen.

^^ I agree Beijing is different from Shanghai. But for most other cities I would only agree with you if all the commie blocks and new steel-glasses are removed. The new buildings are having a bigger weight over the traditional ones. I'm not a nimby but architects and city planners should have some style in mind when they design/approve EVERY building. Maybe only Beijing, Suzhou follow this in some kinds, others are busy developing and following and don't have time to keep the soul of a city in buildings.

^^ great photos, Urumqi is becoming a metropolitan of west China.

Watch out, there's Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui A.R. - the government is building up that city to become an important hub of trade and commerce between China and the Arab world...

I forgot there's Kashgar as well - in Xinjiang as well

Since Urumqi is also a Muslim city, I think the national and local government should tap its potential...

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Watch out, there's Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia Hui A.R. - the government is building up that city to become an important hub of trade and commerce between China and the Arab world...

I forgot there's Kashgar as well - in Xinjiang as well

Since Urumqi is also a Muslim city, I think the national and local government should tap its potential...

I don't think Yinchuan is developed to the same level of Urumqi. We're going to split the West forum into Southwest and Northwest. Urumqi might be the most important city in Northwest, don't you agree?

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I think that tower is part of a big bazzar (or shopping mall), am I right?

I don't think Yinchuan is developed to the same level of Urumqi. We're going to split the West forum into Southwest and Northwest. Urumqi might be the most important city in Northwest, don't you agree?

Why not?! :)

Urumqi might be the most important city in Northwest, don't you agree?

Are you ruling out Xi'an now? Or would you really say Urumqi is more important?

excluding Xi'an.

Xi'an is more important indeed but I wrongly put it in central in my mind.

Anybody live in Urumqi?
Now is Ramadhan time, please share the photo in there about the situation during Ramadhan

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Kashgar

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^^ Nice picture. Urumqi is suffering heavy snow now.

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And also Kerfur که رفور

Nice pictures of Big Bazaar.

Xinjiang was doing great in 2012, GDP grew 12%, airport pax grew over 20%.

^^Is the KFC restaurant above a halal-certified one?

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^^Is the KFC restaurant above a halal-certified one?

Yes it is though I don't know if other KFCs in Urumqi are Halal or not.