Bachu County is located in the northwest border of China, the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, the northwest edge of the Tarim Basin, belonging to the Kashgar region, in ancient times as a military fortress, for the soldiers must fight for the place, known as the eastern gate of Kashgar. Bachu County has a long history and a long history, the Western Han Dynasty belonged to the jurisdiction of the Weitou State, the Three Kingdoms and the Northern Wei Dynasty belonged to the Jurisdiction of the Guizi State, the Sui Dynasty belonged to the Jurisdiction of the Shule State, the Tang Dynasty belonged to the Weitou Prefecture of the Anxi Capital, the Song Dynasty returned to Shule, and the Yuan Ming belonged to the jurisdiction of the Bei lost Bali.
Bachu County has a unique geographical advantage, bordering 11 counties and cities in the four prefectures of southern Xinjiang. Bachu County is an important transportation artery in southern Xinjiang, with the Southern Xinjiang Railway, National Highway 314, Provincial Highway 215 and Batu Highway running through the county, and connecting with five border ports in Kashgar and Kezhou by land, including Hongqirafu, Turgat, Irkeshtan, Xinyifa Class II Port and Karasu Port. The county is the longest 218 kilometers from east to west, the widest from north to south is 134 kilometers, the average altitude is llO0-1180 meters, from southwest to northeast is a narrow terrain, the total area of the county is 2174l square kilometers, of which the oasis area is 7400 square kilometers. It is a large agricultural county, autonomous region and cotton-producing county in Kashgar region, with a total population of 320,000 people, jurisdiction over 8 townships, 4 towns, 5 fields, 186 administrative villages and 16 community neighborhood committees, and there are 8 agricultural and animal husbandry regiment farms in the territory of the Third Agricultural Division. The climate is a temperate continental arid climate, with sufficient sunlight, abundant light, heat, water and soil resources, a forest area of 65421.58 hectares, and 3.06 million mu of poplar forest in the county, which is a rare large-scale poplar forest growth area in the world. There are 35 species of rare wild animals, including 3 species of white cranes, black storks and widowed gulls under national first-level protection, and 9 species of swallow falcons, kites, goshawks, gray cranes, rabbits, Tarim rabbits, red deer and golden eagles that belong to national second-level protection. Mineral resources mainly include oil, natural gas, iron, copper, lead, phosphorus, vanadium titanium magnet, granite, salt rock and so on. Wild plant resources include licorice, robin, cistanche, ephedra, bachu mushroom and so on.
Every year from October 20 to 23 is the Bachu County Poplar Wenhu Art Festival, in this festival everyone goes to Quxuergay Golden Poplar Island to visit and play, but also held the Balchuk Food Street, where the food, only you can not think, there is nothing you can not find.
Welcome to the beautiful Balchuk of Huyang Island on the Silk Road.