Xinjiang People's Press ( zh, 新疆人民出版社), or Xinjiang People's Publishing House, situated at 348 Jiefang South Road,
Tianshan District
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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 ...
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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' ...
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Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC: previously 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 of the country at the crossroads ...
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History
Established on March 5, 1951, Xinjiang People's Press emerged from the expansion and reorganization of the former Compilation Division of the Xinjiang Provincial Committee of Culture and Education, functioning as a comprehensive publishing entity that produces books and periodicals in six scripts:
Uyghur
Uyghur may refer to:
* Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia (West China)
** Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs
*** Old Uyghur language, a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur K ...
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Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China.
**'' Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic ...
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Kazakh,
Mongolian
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* Something of, from, or related to Mongolia, a country in Asia
* Mongolian people, or Mongols
* Bogd Khanate of Mongolia, the government of Mongolia, 1911–1919 and 1921–1924
* Mongolian language
* Mongolian alphabet
* ...
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Kyrgyz, and
Siberian
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In July 2011, the
and the
resolved to utilize the Xinjiang People's Press as a platform through the amalgamation of Xinjiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Kashi Uygur Publishing House, Ili People's Publishing House, Kizilsu and Kirgiz Publishing Houses, Xinjiang People's Health Publishing House, and Xinjiang Audio and Video Publishing House. Currently, the Xinjiang People's Press (Xinjiang Minority Publishing Base) operates as a public welfare organization under the jurisdiction of the Publicity Department of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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