Shufu County, also transliterated from Uyghur as Konaxahar County or Konasheher County/Kona Sheher County, is a county in

Kashgar Prefecture Kashgar Prefecture, also known as Kashi Prefecture, is located in southwestern Xinjiang, China, located in the Tarim Basin region (roughly the southern half of Xinjiang). It has an area of and 4,499,158 inhabitants at the 2015 census with a pop ...

Xinjiang Uyghur 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 ...

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. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 360,000. According to a list obtained and partially verified by the

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, Shufu county has the highest imprisonment rate of any location in the world.

Name

The names of "Shufu County" and nearby "Shule County", transliterations of local language names from

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corresponds to its Uyghur names, "Kona Xahar" (meaning 'old city') and "Yengi Xahar" (New City) respectively. The names for the two counties in both languages may share their origins in languages of the

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people, residents of Kashgar area before its linguistic Turkification in as late as the 11th century.

History

The county was established in 1882. In 2013, Awat Township (Awati; ئاۋات يېزىسى / 阿瓦提乡) and Yëngi’östeng Township (Yingwusitan; يېڭىئۆستەڭ يېزىسى / 英吾斯坦乡) were transferred to

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city. On December 15, 2013, 16 people were killed in an attack on a police station. A group, armed with knives and bombs, attacked the police station and killed two police officers. In the aftermath 14 of the 16 attackers were killed by police special units. On April 28, 2014,

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General Secretary and President

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visited Tokkuzak (Tuokezhake) during his inspection tour of Xinjiang. On October 21, 2014, Aqqash Township (Akekashi) was transferred from Konaxahar (Shufu) County to

city. In 2017, Erkin Ayup, brother of

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, who had recently been promoted as head of oversight for the Organization Department of the Committee of the

in his hometown of Tokkuzak (Tuokezhake), went missing. In an interview conducted by

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, a staffer at his former office said he had been sent to the re-education camp near

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. On January 12, 2019, an 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck the county. There were no reports of casualties or damage. In interviews with ''

'' in 2020, residents and officials of the county stated that it was no longer possible to perform traditional Uyghur

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marriage rites in the county.

Administrative divisions

Towns ( / ) * Tokkuzak (Tuokezhake, Toqquzaq; / ),

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(Langan; / ), Oghusaq (Wukusake; / ),

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(Wupa'er; / ) Townships ( / ) * Tashmiliq Township (Tashimilike; / ), Tërim Township (Tierimu; / ), Bulaqsu Township (Bulakesu; / ), Saybag Township (Sayibage, Saybagh; / ), Zemin Township (Zhanmin; / ), Mush Township (Mushi; / ) Others * County Livestock Farm 县种畜场, County Gardening Farm 县园艺场, County Forest 县林场, County Seed Farm 县良种场, Shufu Guangzhou Industrial City 疏附广州工业城

Economy

The county is an important area for wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton, and rice production in southern Xinjiang, as well as producing apricots, grapes, pomegranates, muskmelon, pistachio and other fruits. Industries include cotton spinning, food, cotton ginning and others.

Demographics

As of 2015, 271,556 of the 277,877 residents of the county were Uyghur, 5,406 were

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and 915 were from other ethnic groups. As of 1999, 94.69% of the population of Konaxahar (Shufu) County was Uyghur and 5.02% of the population was Han Chinese.

Transportation

China National Highway 314 China National Highway 314 (G314) (sometimes referred to as Gansu Provincial Highway 314) runs southwest from Urumqi, Xinjiang towards the Khunjerab Pass, which is on the northern border of the Gilgit–Baltistan territory in Pakistan-administer ...

Notable persons

Abdur Rahman Kashgari Abū az-Zibriqān ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Dāmullā al-Kāshgharī an-Nadwī ( ar, أبو الزبرقان عبد الرحمن بن عبد الهادي داملا الكاشغري الندوي; 15 September 1912 – March 1971), or ...

* Ismail Tiliwaldi

Gallery

File:乌帕尔乡 - Upal Township - 2015.04 - panoramio.jpg File:Upal-mezquita-d02.jpg File:NJ-43-3 Kashi, China.jpg, Map including Shufu (Shu-fu) ( DMA, 1983)

References

{{authority control County-level divisions of Xinjiang Kashgar Prefecture