Urumqi, China

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"Urumchi or Ürümqi (English IPA : [u??ru?mt?i] ; Uyghur : ???????; Uyghur Latin script : Ürümqi; Simplified Chinese : ???? ; Traditional Chinese : ???? ; pinyin : W?l?mùqí ), with a population of about 2.1 million, is the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China ,in the northwest of the country."
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"Due to the lack of trains in South Xinjiang, there are only limited choices to Urumqi, Kurla and Kashgar."
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"Urumqi is the capital of the Xinjiang provinde -an Autonomous region inhabited by the Uyguyr people."
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"Xinjiang, 1,470km (911 miles) NE of Kashgar, 692km (429 miles) E of Yining."
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"Xinjiang Silk Road Museum [1] Easy to find -located right next to the Grand Bazaar at No.160 Shengli Road."
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"Kashgar (??) or Kashi is in the extreme West of China ,the Southwest extreme of Xinjiang ,at a junction between two branches of the old Silk Road."
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"The Russians, however, were diplomatically non-committal: on the one hand, as Vlangali wrote to Saint Petersburg, a "complete refusal" would be bad for Russia's relations with Beijing; on the other hand, as Russian generals in Central Asia felt, seriously helping China against Xinjiang's Muslims would do nothing to improve Russia's problems with its own new Muslim subjects -and in case the rebellion were to succeed and form a permanent Hui stete, having been on the Qing's side would do nothing good for Russia's relations with that new neighbor."
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"      since it was founded in 1921, the communist party of china (cpc)has devoted attentions to the liberation of xinjiang people. it was in early 1930s that the cpc had sent cadres to xinjiang after the eruption of the war of resistance against japanese aggression, the cpc organs in xinjiang established anti-japanese national united front with local kuomintang government and opened cpc xinjiang office."
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