Boritokay Township (بۆرىتوقاي يېزىسى / ) is a

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Wuqia County Ulugqat County (also known as Ulughchat County and Wuqia County; ) is a county in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. It is under the administration of the Kyrgyz autonomous prefecture of Kizilsu. The county has two towns, nine townships a ...

Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture Kizilsu (also as Kezilesu; ; ug, قىزىلسۇ قىرغىز ئاپتونوم ئوبلاستى; Kyrgyz: , , , ) is an autonomous prefecture of Kyrgyz people in the west of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, bordering with Kyrgyzstan and T ...

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly 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 ...

, China. Located in the south of the county, the township covers an area of with a population of 6,977 (as of 2017). It has 5

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under its jurisdiction. Its seat is at ''Dongengiz'' (). Boritokay Township is located 86 kilometers south of the county seat

Wuqia Town Wuqia Town () is a town and the county seat of Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the middle east of the county, the town covers an area of 288 square kilometers with a population of 13,898 (as of 2017). It has 5 ...

. It is adjacent to

Shufu County Shufu County, also transliterated from Uyghur as Konaxahar County or Konasheher County/Kona Sheher County, is a county in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it ha ...

in the east, Bostanterak Township in the south,

Akto County Akto County (also known as Aqtu, Aktu, or Aketao; ) is a Counties of China, county in Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The county borders Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan and has two Towns of Chin ...

in the southwest, and Oksalur Township in the north.

Name

The name "Boritokay" is from the

Kyrgyz language Kyrgyz (; autonym: , tr. ''Kyrgyz tili'', ) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in X ...

. The word "bori" (膘尔) means

wolf The wolf (''Canis lupus''; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of ''Canis lupus'' have been recognized, and gray wolves, as popularly u ...

and the word "tokay" (托阔依) means

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, brush or grassy area. According to legend, there was a forest/grassland/brushland in Boritokay in which wolves roamed and hence the area was called Boritokay, meaning "forest/grassland/brushland with wolves in it". ''Xinjiang Tuzhi'' () mentions a ''Biaolituohai'' () in the western part of

Shufu Shufu County, also transliterated from Uyghur as Konaxahar County or Konasheher County/Kona Sheher County, is a county in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it h ...

, in the area of Boritokay.

History

''Boritokay'' was the 5th township of the 3rd district in Wuqia County in 1950. It was part of ''Bostanterak Commune'' () in 1958 and ''Boritokay Commune'' () was formed from

Bostanterak Bostanterak Township () is a township of Wuqia County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Located in the south of the county, the township covers an area of 2,902 square kilometers with a population of 9,725 (as of 2017). It has 6 adminis ...

Commune in 1962, it was renamed ''Jinsong Commune'' () in 1968 and restored the original name in 1980, and organized as a township in 1984.

Geography

Boritokay is south of the county seat. The township is located between 1,700 meters and 2,800 meters above sea level, most of which are mountainous areas.

Settlements

The township has 5 administration villages and 21

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s under its jurisdiction. 5 administration villages: * Akqi Village (Aheqi; ) * Aygart Village (Ayiga'erte, Ayi Ga’ertecun;, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ) * Boritokay Village (Biao'ertuokuoyi; ), also named Dongengiz, (Dun'ai'ezi; ) * Saz Village (Sazi; ) * Targalak Village (Ta'ergalake; )

Economy

It is a township of semi-agriculture and semi-animal husbandry. Local wildlife include

Argali The argali (''Ovis ammon''), also known as the mountain sheep, is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia, the Himalayas, Tibet, and the Altai Mountains. Description The name 'argali' is the Mongolian word for wild sheep. I ...

, wolves, snow chicken, stone chicken, yellow sheep and so on.

Ginseng Ginseng () is the root of plants in the genus ''Panax'', such as Korean ginseng ('' P. ginseng''), South China ginseng ('' P. notoginseng''), and American ginseng ('' P. quinquefolius''), typically characterized by the presence of ginsenosides an ...

and

angelica ''Angelica'' is a genus of about 60 species of tall biennial and perennial herbs in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, reaching as far north as Iceland, Lapland, and Greenland. They grow t ...

grow in the area. Mineral resources include

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copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

, fossil oil and so on. The township has an area of 469.7 hectares of

arable land Arable land (from the la, arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.''Oxford English Dictionary'', "arable, ''adj''. and ''n.''" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2013. Alternatively, for the ...

, 355.7 hectares of

land and 1,677 hectares of natural grassland. All the 5 villages in the township pass through the

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, and

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covers all the villages. There are 2 primary schools, 4 kindergartens, 1 health center, 5 clinics and 29 medical staff in the township.

References

External links

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Post-90s The Post-90 generation (; yue, 九十後, gau2 sap6 hau6 or yue, 九零後, gau2 ling4 hau6) is a generation in China, especially in urban areas, generally considered to be born between 1990 and 1999 though sometimes considered to start with thos ...

" cadre Zhou Long works to alleviate poverty in the Pamirs'. As of 2020, Zhou Long is Boritokay township deputy chief; Zhou is in charge of township poverty alleviation efforts.)
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(2020) {{Administrative divisions of Wuqia County Township-level divisions of Wuqia County