Seriqbuya (
Uyghur: سېرىقبۇيا,
USY: Сериқбуя,
ULY: Sëriqbuya; ) or Serikbuya
is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
in
Maralbexi (Bachu) County,
Kashgar Prefecture,
Xinjiang
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. It is located on Provincial Road 215, on the left (northwestern) bank of the
Yarkand River
The Yarkand River (or Yarkent River, Yeh-erh-ch'iang Ho) is a river in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of western China. It originates in the Siachen Muztagh in a part of the Karakoram range and flows into the Tarim River or Neinejoung R ...
and about 180 kilometers to the east of the city of Kashgar.
Name
The name Seriqbuya is from the
Uyghur language
The Uyghur or Uighur language (; , , , or , , , , CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki), is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8-11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xi ...
and means yellow ''
sophora alopecuroides''.
History
In 1950, Seriqbuya District () was established.
In 1958, Seriqbuya became a commune ().'
In 1967 during the
Cultural Revolution
The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...
, the commune was renamed Dongfanghong Commune (literally, '
The East is Red Commune'; ).
In 1984, Seriqbuya Town () was created.
In 2013, Seriqbuya was the site of the
April 2013 Bachu unrest between ethnic Uyghurs on one side and Chinese government officials and police on the other.
[D. Grammaticas, Doubts over China government claims on Xinjiang attack, BBC, 26 April 2013]
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Administrative divisions
Seriqbuya includes ten residential communities and twenty villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
(''Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language ...
Hanyu Pinyin-derived names, except where Uyghur is provided''):
Demographics
, Seriqbuya's population was 98.6% Uyghur.
Economy
Seriqbuya is a traditional southern Xinjiang agricultural village and market town where as many as ten-thousand people meet to trade. The business skills of local traders are strong and many traders from Seriqbuya have migrated to Beijing and Shanghai. Nearby farms produce licorice
Liquorice (British English) or licorice (American English) ( ; also ) is the common name of ''Glycyrrhiza glabra'', a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring can be extracted.
The liq ...
and medicinal products as a specialty.
Historical maps
Historical English-language maps including Seriqbuya:
File:NJ-43-4_Yueh_Pu_Hu%2C_China.jpg, Map including Seriqbuya (labeled as Sha-la-ka-pu-ya (Se-li-pu-ya)) ( DMA, 1974)
File:Operational Navigation Chart G-7, 6th edition.jpg, From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Seriqbuya (labeled as Serikbuya (Se-li-pu-ya)) ( DMA, 1980)
File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 g-7a.jpg, Map including Seriqbuya (labeled as Seribuya (Se-li-pu-ya)) ( DMA, 1984)
Notes
References
Kashgar Prefecture
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