K'o-shih

The Kucha group includes the three hsien of Yen-ch’i, Kucha, and Aqsu. The people of these places are peaceful, and besides engaging in agriculture, have handicraft trades. The Kashgar group includes all the counties of K’o-shih Ch’ü. This is the principal center of the Ch’an Hui, who are Mohammedan merchants and farmers. The people of this group and of that at Khotan are very patient and so are excellent at handicraft work.

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K'o-shih Special Administrative District of Sinkiang had 1,630,000 mou of winter wheat under cultivation.

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Kashgar is the largest city of the Tarim basin, situated also near the Soviet border. Its Chinese official name is K'o-shih, an abbreviated form of K'o-shih-k'a-erh, the phonetic rendering of Kashgar. Prior to 1950, Kashgar was known as Shufu. The city has a population of about 75,000, predominantly Uigur in ethnic composition. It is a center for trade in cotton, silk and sheepskins.

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A fourth route, of no practical logistical import, is the Sinkiang-Tibet highway route. This route extends from Kashgar (K'o-shih) in Sinkiang to Gartok in extreme western Tibet. This portion of the road is considered to be fair weather with the exact width unknown. From Gartok two routes of limited motorability extend to Zhikatse and Nagchhu Dzong (Hei-ho). The route from Gartok to Nagchhu Dzong, a point on the Lan-chou to Lhasa route, is thought to be little more than a course marked across the plateau and of no logistical value. Although motor vehicles have been operated between Gartok and Zhikatse, this route is of questionable motorability and of no logistical value.

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