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Ürümqi–Dzungaria Railway
The Ürümqi-Dzungaria railway or Wuzhun railway () is a single-track railway line in Xinjiang, China, between Ürümqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and the coal fields of the eastern Junggar Basin (Dzungaria). The railway is in length and runs east from Ürümqi to Wucaiwan (, in Jimsar County) to Jiangjunmiao (), in the northern part of Qitai County. The line opened in 2009 and was built primarily to carry coal. At its northern end, the line meets the Altay–Fuyun–Zhundong railway. Passenger services On 12 July 2019, a passenger service was introduced between Ürümqi railway station, Weijiaquan, and Zhundong. See also * List of railways in China The following is a list of conventional lines of rail transport in China. For the high-speed network, see List of high-speed railway lines in China. North–south direction Beijing–Harbin Corridor * Jingqin railway; Beijing– Qinhuang ... References Railway lines in China Rail transport in Xinjiang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the Northwest China, northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Being the List of Chinese administrative divisions by area, largest province-level division of China by area and the List of the largest country subdivisions by area, 8th-largest country subdivision in the world, Xinjiang spans over and has about 25 million inhabitants. Xinjiang Borders of China, borders the countries of Afghanistan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan. The rugged Karakoram, Kunlun Mountains, Kunlun and Tian Shan mountain ranges occupy much of Xinjiang's borders, as well as its western and southern regions. The Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram Tract regions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 Province-level divisions of China, province-level divisions: 22 provinces of China, provinces, 5 autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, 4 direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is List of cities in China by population, its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ürümqi
Ürümqi, , is the capital of the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the second-largest in Central Asia in terms of population, right after Kabul, Afghanistan. Ürümqi has seen significant economic development since the 1990s and currently serves as a List of transport topics#Nodes, regional transport node and a cultural, political and commercial center. Etymology The name Ürümqi comes from the Mongolic languages, Mongolic Oirat language and means "beautiful pasture" (, ). It was originally the name of a small town founded by the Mongolic peoples, Mongolic, Oirat-speaking Dzungar people, Dzungars. The Qing dynasty took Ürümqi by force in 1755, during Dzungar–Qing Wars, its conquest of the Dzungar Khanate. Qing forces expanded the town into a walled city from 1763 to 1767, and upon completing the expan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junggar Basin
The Junggar Basin (), also known as the Dzungarian Basin or Zungarian Basin, is one of the largest sedimentary basins in Northwest China. It is located in Dzungaria in northern Xinjiang, and enclosed by the Tarbagatai Mountains of Kazakhstan in the northwest, the Altai Mountains of Mongolia in the northeast, and the Tian Shan, Heavenly Mountains (Tian Shan) in the south. The geology of Junggar Basin mainly consists of sedimentary rocks underlain by Igneous rock, igneous and Metamorphic rock, metamorphic basement rocks. The basement of the basin was largely formed during the development of the Pangaea, Pangea supercontinent during complex tectonic events from Precambrian to late Paleozoic time. The basin developed as a series of foreland basins – in other words, basins developing immediately in front of growing mountain ranges – from Permian time to the Quaternary period. The basin's preserved sedimentary records show that the climate during the Mesozoic era was marked by a tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimsar County
Jimsar County is a county in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It contains an area of . According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 130,000. Near the town of Jimsar are the ruins of the ancient city of Beiting ( zh, c=北庭, p=Běitíng) or Ting Prefecture ( zh, c=庭州, p=Tíngzhōu), the headquarters of the Beiting Protectorate during the 8th century. It was later known as Beshbalik ( zh, c=别失八里) and became one of the capitals of the Uyghur Khaganate and then the Kingdom of Qocho. History The name Beshbalik first appears in history in the description of the events of 713 in the Turkic Kul Tigin inscription. It was one of the largest of five towns in the Uyghur Khaganate. The Tibetans briefly held the city in 790. Established in 1902 as a county, it was known as Fuyuan (孚远) until 1952, when its name was changed to Jimsar. The modern city Jimsar is located at 43°59'N, 89°4'East; It is a location of the Uyghur ancient southern capital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiangjunmiao
Jiangjunmiao ( Chinese: 将军庙, pinyin: Jiàngjūnmiào) is a ruin and fossil site in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. Geography Jiangjunmiao is located in the Junggar Basin near the border with Mongolia, on a mesa and at the top of an alluvial slope. There is a single dirt road which connects the ruins to the nearby city of Qitai, and the Ürümqi–Dzungaria railway connects the site to Zhundong but offers no passenger service. The closest inhabited area is a remote nature park maintained by the county government which hosts the area's petrified forest. The area around the ruins is known as the "Jiangjun Gobi" in reference to the ruin. The site is located only from one of the 45×90 points, four sites on Earth located exactly between a geographical pole (the North Pole) and the Equator, as well as the Prime Meridian and 180th meridian. Jiangjunmiao is the closest named location to the 45x90 point where the 45th parallel north and 90th meridian east c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qitai County
Qitai County ( zh, s=奇台县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Guqung County or Gucheng County (; zh, s=古城县), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of and had a population of 230,000. Qitai County's county seat is in Qitai Town. Gucheng Township is nearby. History Located on one of the main routes of the Silk Road, the old Gucheng (often referred in the European writing of the past as "Ku Ch'eng-tze", Kucheng, Kuchengtze, etc., using Wade-Giles or Postal Romanization systems), was the western terminal for one of the caravan routes across the Gobi Desert. Owen Lattimore in ''The Desert Road to Turkestan'' leaves an account of his travel along this route in 1926-27. "Under the special circumstances of the caravan trade, camel traffic usually overshoots Hami the most easterly point on the arterial cart roads of Chinese Turkestan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altay–Fuyun–Zhundong Railway
The Altay–Fuyun–Zhundong railway is a single-track passenger and freight railway in China. At Zhundong, the line meets the Ürümqi–Dzungaria railway The Ürümqi-Dzungaria railway or Wuzhun railway () is a single-track railway line in Xinjiang, China, between Ürümqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and the coal fields of the eastern Junggar Basin (Dzungaria). The railway is in length an .... At Altay, it meets the Kuytun–Beitun railway. History Construction of the railway began in August 2016. The section from Fuyun to Zhundong North opened on 30 December 2019. The remaining section from Altay to Fuyun opened on 6 December 2020. References Railway lines in China Railway lines opened in 2019 {{PRChina-rail-transport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ürümqi Railway Station
Ürümqi railway station (; ) is a railway station and a major transport hub for high-speed and conventional rail in Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The station was a small halt called Ergong before renovation. It should not be confused with Ürümqi South railway station, which was known by the same name from 1962 until 2014, when the new train station was completed. The newer station, being much larger and grander than Ürümqi South, will assume the role of Ürümqi's primary railway station. However, trains will continue to service both, with some express services skipping through the older station. Built primarily as the western terminus of the Lanzhou–Xinjiang high-speed railway, for the first time high speed trains now connect the far western province to Eastern Chinese cities, allowing for express trains to reach Beijing in around 18 hours; much less than the 31 hours it previously took. Conventional rail services continue to use the Lanxin railway eastwards and the Northern X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Railways In China
The following is a list of conventional lines of rail transport in China. For the high-speed network, see List of high-speed railway lines in China. North–south direction Beijing–Harbin Corridor * Jingqin railway; Beijing– Qinhuangdao 京秦线 * Jingshan railway; Beijing– Shanhaiguan 京山线 * Shenshan railway; Shenyang– Shanhaiguan 沈山线 * Qinshen Passenger railway; Qinhuangdao–Shenyang 秦沈客运专线 *Changda railway; Changchun–Dalian 长大线 *Changbin railway; Changchun–Harbin 长滨线 * Binzhou railway; Harbin– Manzhouli 滨洲线 In passenger rail service, Jingshan railway, Shenshan railway, Changda railway, Changchun–Shenyang portion and Changbin railway are collectively called Jingha railway (Beijing–Harbin). East Coast *Changda railway; Changchun–Dalian 长大线, Shenyang–Dalian Portion (沈大段) *Yanda railway Ferry 烟大铁路轮渡 * Lanyan railway; Lancun–Yantai 蓝烟线 * Jiaoxin railway; Jiaozhou– Xinyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
