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About Yecheng: Yecheng County is located in the southwestern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, more than 1,500 kilometers from the capital of Urumqi and 260 kilometers from Kashi City. It is bordered by the Karakoram Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains in the south, and the open plain in the north. It is close to the Taklimakan Desert and the upper reaches of the Yarkant River. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north. Yecheng County has a land area of ​​31,000 square kilometers and cultivated land of 1.13 million mu. Yecheng County governs 20 townships, 5 agricultural and forestry pastures, and 1 administrative area, with more than 500,000 people. It is home to 13 ethnic groups including Uygur, Han, Kazakh, Hui, Kirgiz, Mongolia, Tajik, Russia, Uzbek, etc., of which Uyghur The ethnic group accounted for 93%, the Han nationality accounted for 6%, and other ethnic minorities accounted for 1%. Yecheng County is connected to Pakistan and India-controlled Kashmir, with a border line of more than 80 kilometers. It is an agricultural county with agriculture as the mainstay and a combination of agriculture and animal husbandry. It is also a military town in the western border of China and a key county and border county for poverty alleviation and development. Yecheng County is known as the “Hometown of Chinese Walnut, Hometown of Pomegranate, Hometown of Jade, Hometown of Song and Dance”.
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