Tacheng
Tacheng
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Tacheng | |
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Chinese name | |
Daur | Тарбгьти Tarbgti |
Tacheng
History
In the mid-19th century, Chuguchak was considered the most important commercial center of Western China after Ghulja (Yining), being an important center of trade between China and Russia, in particular in tea. The city, surrounded by an earth wall, was the residence of two Qing ambans and had a garrison of some 1,000 Chinese soldiers and 1,500 Manchu and Mongol soldiers.[3]
Chuguchak suffered harshly in 1865 during the fighting between the
Tacheng is the site of an
Border crossing
The Baktu border crossing (
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Kazakh-Chinese border near Tacheng
Administrative divisions
Tacheng is divided into 3 subdistricts, 2 towns, 3 townships, and 1 ethnic township,
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | UEY )
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Uyghur Latin (ULY) | Kazakh (Arabic script) | Kazakh (Cyrillic script) | Administrative division code | |
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Subdistricts | ||||||||
Heping Subdistrict | 和平街道 | Hépíng Jiēdào | تېنچىلىق كوچا باشقارمىسى | tënchiliq kocha bashqarmisi | بەيبىت كوشە باسقارماسى | 654201001 | ||
Dubik Subdistrict | 杜别克街道 | Dùbiékè Jiēdào | دۇبىك كوچا باشقارمىسى | dubik kocha bashqarmisi | دۋبەك كوشە باسقارماسى | 654201002 | ||
Xincheng Subdistrict | 新城街道 | Xīnchéng Jiēdào | يېڭى شەھەر كوچا باشقارمىسى | yëngi sheher kocha bashqarmisi | جاڭا جامبىل كوشە باسقارماسى | 654201003 | ||
Towns | ||||||||
Ergong Town | 二工镇 | Èrgōng Zhèn | ئەرگۇڭ بازىرى | Ergung baziri | ارگۇڭ قالاشىعى | 654201100 | ||
Chasha Town | 恰夏镇 | Qiàxià Zhèn | چاشا بازىرى | chasha baziri | شاشا قالاشىعى | 654201101 | ||
Bozdakh Town | 博孜达克镇 | Bózīdákè Zhèn | بوزداق بازىرى | bozdaq baziri | بوزداق قالاشىعى | 654201102 | ||
Townships | ||||||||
Kharakhabakh Township | 喀拉哈巴克乡 | Kālāhǎbākè Xiāng | قاراقاباق يېزىسى | qaraqabaq yëzisi | قاراقاباق اۋىلى | 654201200 | ||
Abdira Township | 阿不都拉乡 | Ābùdūlā Xiāng | ئابدىرا يېزىسى | Abdira yëzisi | ابدىرا اۋىلى | 654201203 | ||
Ëmil Township | 也门勒乡 | Yěménlè Xiāng | ئېمىل يېزىسى | Ëmil yëzisi | ەمىل اۋىلى | 654201204 | ||
Ethnic Township | ||||||||
Axili Daur Ethnic Township | 阿西尔达斡尔民族乡 | Āxī'ěr Dáwò'ěr Mínzúxiāng | ئاشىلى داغۇر يېزىسى | Ashili daghur yëzisi | اشىلى داعۇر ۇلتتىق اۋىلى | 654201202 |
Climate
Tacheng has a typical Xinjiang cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) that is almost moist enough to be a hot summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa), as being on the west side of the Altay Mountains the region receives more winter snowfall than most of Xinjiang.
Climate data for Tacheng (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 8.6 (47.5) |
10.5 (50.9) |
24.7 (76.5) |
33.2 (91.8) |
38.2 (100.8) |
37.6 (99.7) |
40.3 (104.5) |
41.6 (106.9) |
37.7 (99.9) |
32.0 (89.6) |
20.8 (69.4) |
11.8 (53.2) |
41.6 (106.9) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −4.0 (24.8) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
7.0 (44.6) |
18.2 (64.8) |
24.2 (75.6) |
29.3 (84.7) |
31.1 (88.0) |
30.2 (86.4) |
24.2 (75.6) |
15.8 (60.4) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−2.1 (28.2) |
14.9 (58.8) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.9 (14.2) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
0.9 (33.6) |
11.1 (52.0) |
16.8 (62.2) |
21.7 (71.1) |
23.4 (74.1) |
22.2 (72.0) |
16.3 (61.3) |
8.5 (47.3) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
8.0 (46.5) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −14.7 (5.5) |
−11.8 (10.8) |
−4.0 (24.8) |
5.2 (41.4) |
10.3 (50.5) |
14.9 (58.8) |
16.8 (62.2) |
15.2 (59.4) |
9.5 (49.1) |
3.0 (37.4) |
−4.5 (23.9) |
−11.6 (11.1) |
2.4 (36.2) |
Record low °C (°F) | −33.5 (−28.3) |
−37.1 (−34.8) |
−30.6 (−23.1) |
−12.3 (9.9) |
−3.7 (25.3) |
2.6 (36.7) |
6.2 (43.2) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−31.5 (−24.7) |
−34.7 (−30.5) |
−37.1 (−34.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 21.6 (0.85) |
17.3 (0.68) |
18.5 (0.73) |
28.8 (1.13) |
29.1 (1.15) |
25.2 (0.99) |
28.0 (1.10) |
20.5 (0.81) |
18.2 (0.72) |
23.1 (0.91) |
38.0 (1.50) |
28.8 (1.13) |
297.1 (11.7) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 9.7 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 7.1 | 5.2 | 6.9 | 10.1 | 11.0 | 99.9 |
Average snowy days | 11.4 | 11.1 | 7.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 9.1 | 13.5 | 55.9 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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70 | 68 | 63 | 51 | 48 | 49 | 51 | 47 | 47 | 57 | 69 | 71 | 58 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 151.7 | 172.4 | 232.1 | 263.4 | 320.2 | 324.7 | 331.7 | 321.3 | 273.3 | 219.1 | 142.7 | 125.5 | 2,878.1 |
Percent possible sunshine | 53 | 58 | 62 | 64 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 52 | 47 | 63 |
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[8][9] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Weather China[10] |
Transportation
The
Tacheng is also served by the Tacheng Qianquan Airport with flights to Ürümqi and other cities in Xinjiang.
Notes
- UTC+6 (Xinjiang Time), 2 hours behind Beijing.
References
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Citations
- ^ Xinjiang: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
- ISBN 7-5031-1718-4.
- ^ , p. 73
- ISSN 0305-7410.
- ^ "Inside Xinjiang's Prison State". The New Yorker. 26 February 2021.
- ^ Buschek, Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, Christo (27 August 2020). "China Secretly Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Muslims". BuzzFeed News.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b 百年口岸——巴克图-塔城市政府门户网 (in Chinese (China)). Tacheng People's Government. 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ 塔城 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- Xinhua. 2019-05-30. Archived from the originalon May 30, 2019.
Sources
- Khālidī, Qurbanʻali, Allen J. Frank, and Mirkasym Abdulakhatovich Usmanov. An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912. Brill's Inner Asian library, v. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
- Light, Nathan. "Qazaqs in the People's Republic of China: The Local Processes of History". Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, Occasional Paper No. 22, June 1994. ISBN 1-881157-24-5.
- Light, Nathan. "Kazakhs of the Tarbaghatai: Ethno-History Through a Novel". The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 17/2 (1993): 91–102.
- Saguchi Toru. "Kazak Pastoralists on the Tarbaghatai Frontier under the Ch'ing." In: Proceedings of the International Conference on China Border Area Studies. Lin En-hsien [Lin Enxian], ed. Taipei: National Chengchi University, 1985, pp. 953–996.
- Wiens, Herold J. "Change in the Ethnography and Land Use of the Ili Valley and Region, Chinese Turkestan". Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 59, No. 4. (Dec., 1969), pp. 753–775.
External links
- Map of the City of Tacheng (in Chinese)
- Webpage on the Bakktu border crossing in Xinjiang's Land Ports and Border Trade website