Yuli

Sunday's quakes damaged the east coast railroad at seven places in the 75-mile stretch between Hualien and Taitung. Hualien, hard hit by quakes that killed about 100 persons Oct. 22 and 23, suffered no casualties Sunday. The rail towns of Yuli and Fuli 50 and 60 miles south, bore the bunt of the Sunday tremors.

Construction will begin in July 1978 from Hsinyi in Nantou county on the west side and in 1979 from Yuli in Hualien county on the east side.

During the 14-year period, the clinic treated 140,000 patients. They extended the clinics to two nearby towns, Yuli and Taitung.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan killed at least one person and collapsed at least one building in the town of Yuli in Hualien County.[…] A worker at a cement factory in the town of Yuli died after equipment collapsed on him during the earthquake, Taiwan’s state-run Central News Agency said. Emergency crews were able to rescue four people who had been trapped in a building that collapsed in Yuli.

For example, during the reign of Han Cho Ti (86-74 B.C.) there were more than 500,000 mows of irrigated farmlands around Luntai (Lun-dai) and Yuli (Werli) cities in the lower reaches of the Tarim River.[...]Thus, the ancient extensive farmlands around Luntai and Yuli have now been all turned into shifting sands, and the famous ancient Loulan Kingdom, located at the western side of Lop Nur, has been utterly devastated into a wild landscape of yardang and barchan dunes.

A 1987 study listed 25,000 speakers of the Lop Nur Uygur language in the eastern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.¹ They live near Lop Nur Lake, in a widespread area which includes Yuli County and Miran Township of Ruogiang County.

In the current wave of relocations, more than 700 families on land reclaimed from the Tarim River are being moved to farmland near Yuli county, about an hour south of Korla, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

During the 24 years from 1959 to 1983, the desert area increased from 66.23% to 81.23%, especially in the lower reach of the Tarim River. Stormy weather increases over time. For example, in the Yuli County (located in the lower reach of the Tarim River) the days of sandstorms were 108 days in the 1970s, which was about two times of that in the 1960s. At present, the number of days of sandstorms are 130 days and the days of dust are 180 days.