In Xinjiang, the great northwest of the motherland, the best developed area is the Urumqi Metropolitan Area. Urumqi metropolitan area includes Urumqi, Changji Prefecture, Wujiaqu, Turpan, Shihezi and other cities, most friends are more familiar with Urumqi, Turpan, Shihezi.
Urumqi Metropolitan Area
So do you know Changji State? Have you heard of Mulei County, the farthest county in Changji Prefecture? On the map, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture is located at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, on the southeastern edge of the Junggar Basin. Changji Prefecture has a total area of 73,900 square kilometers and a total population of less than 2 million people. Changji Prefecture is bordered by Hami to the east, Shihezi to the west, Turpan and Bazhou to the south, Tacheng and Altay to the north, and Mongolia to the northeast. It surrounds the city of Urumqi from east, west and north.
Map of Changji Prefecture
Urumqi just divides Changji Prefecture into two parts, changji city, Hutubi county, manas county these three places in the west of Urumqi, is also a place I often pass by. Fukang City, Qitai County, Jimsar County, Mulei County, these four places are east of Urumqi, of which Qitai, Jimsar and Mulei are also used to be called Dongsan County.
Location map of Mulei County
Mulei Kazakh Autonomous County is the easternmost county of Changji Prefecture, located east of Qitai County, west of Balikun County of Hami City, across the Tianshan Mountains from Turpan City, facing Shanshan County, and bordering Mongolia in the north, with a total area of 22,100 square kilometers and a population of only about 100,000 people. The county seat of Mulei is more than 260 kilometers away from Urumqi.
Mulei Kazakh Autonomous County
The naming of the rivers in Mulei County is very interesting, Engelberg, Bostan, are the names of local rivers, much like foreign place names, and the Shuimo River, which has the same name as the Shuimo River in Urumqi, and the Mulei River with the same name as Mulei County, these rivers are mountain stream rivers, originating from the northern slope of Bogda in the Tianshan Mountains.
Wooden Barrier Map
I first learned about Mulei because of the chickpeas sold in the Urumqi market and the often seen wooden barbecue in the streets. Chickpeas are a bit like peas, but not peas, native to the arid regions of West Asia and South Asia, also called chicken beans, chicken heart beans, small beans, chickpeas are named because of their tip like a hawk's beak.
chickpea
The area of chickpeas grown in India and Pakistan accounts for more than 80% of the world's total, and the cultivation in China is mainly in the Xinjiang region. Mulei County, Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, is rich in green and high-quality chickpeas. Chickpeas this crop likes to be cool, Mulei County 1200 meters above sea level - 2800 meters in the Tianshan inversion zone is dominated by black calcium soil, is an ideal area for the cultivation of cool crops, the cultivation of chickpeas has a unique geographical advantage.
PingdingShan, Mulei County, Xinjiang
The chickpeas bred in this land of Mulei County have obvious advantages in nutritional composition and medicinal value, and the beans are of excellent quality, the skin is thin and round, and the nutritional value is high. If you have the opportunity to come to Mulei County, Xinjiang, you can taste authentic Mulei barbecue, as well as soup rice and stew made with chickpeas.
Wooden barrier location map
Although Mulei is the farthest place from Urumqi among the three eastern counties, but it is precisely because of this that it is full of unknown, many Xinjiang locals are estimated not to have been to Mulei County, everyone is familiar with the tourist attractions in Changji Prefecture, of which "Xinjiang Tianshan" was successfully declared as a World Natural Heritage, "Beiting Ancient City" was successfully declared as a world cultural heritage, and is the only prefecture in Xinjiang that also has a "double World Heritage". There are also Han Dynasty Shule City, Beiting Ancient City, Cheshi Ancient Road, Shimenzi Rock Paintings, Qitai Silicified Wood Dinosaur Valley National Geopark, Devil's City, Tianshan Tianchi, Jiangbulak and other scenic spots, which are popular attractions.
Poplar forest in Mulei County
In fact, there are many interesting places in Mulei, Mingsha Mountain, Poplar Forest, Forest Park, Dragon King Temple, Tumbling Spring, Huojia Tomb, Holy Water Spring, Sidaogou Primitive Village Ruins, these places are attractive because they are strange. After the road from Mulei County to Shanshan County is completed and opened to traffic, the desert tourism resources of Turpan Shanshan County will complement Mulei County, and this journey through the East Tianshan Mountains will definitely catch fire.
Traffic map around the wooden barrier
For mainland tourists, their first trip to Xinjiang may only go to Tianshan Tianchi and Wucai Bay in Changji Prefecture, because Xinjiang is too big and there are too many tourist attractions to play all at once. If you are visiting Xinjiang for the second or third time, you can choose some in-depth tours of places you don't frequent.
Overlooking the county seat of Mulei
We can go from Urumqi to dongsan county, and along the way we can see not only the scenery, but also the local development and changes. Changji Prefecture is a relatively developed place in Xinjiang's economy, transportation and other aspects, known as the back garden of Urumqi, Wuchang integrated development potential is huge, this land will make us proud of the development of Xinjiang, but also pay attention to Mulei County, this remote border city. Mulei Kazakh Autonomous County, Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, a place rich in chickpeas, welcomes you to Mulei.
Wooden fortress flat top mountain
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