Urumqi

Are you from Urumqi?

There are forty thousand cameras in Urumqi.

Urumqi is even colder than Kashgar.

It's just me who lives with my kids in Urumqi.

"Where'd you come from?" "Straight from Urumqi."

"Why does Urumqi have such cold weather?" "Naturally, because it's north of the Tian Shan."

There's the plane from Urumqi.

He went to Urumqi on Monday and came back here the next day.

Look, it's the plane from Urumqi.

Urumqi, the seat of government of Xinjiang, stands at about the same latitude as Marseilles, which has an average temperature of six or seven degrees centigrade in January when the grass and leaves of trees remain green and water flows freely. January in Urumqi, however, has an average temperature of fifteen degrees below zero centigrade, and the ground is covered with ice and snow.

Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by “terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities”, the People’s Daily said on its website.

When I returned to Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, during the Spring Festival one year, police cars were lined up outside the train station. I discovered that ethnic minority people from outside Urumqi needed a letter of guarantee from their local relatives or employer just to leave the train station.

Tesla, the world's most valuable automaker, announced on Dec. 31 that it was opening a showroom in Xinjiang's regional capital, Urumqi. "On the last day of 2021 we meet in Xinjiang," Tesla said in a post on its official Weibo account. Other U.S. and European automakers or their Chinese partners have showrooms in Urumqi, a city of some 3 million people. German automaker Volkswagen AG has a car factory near Urumqi.