Capital of Xinjiang province, Urumqi is a former passage from the silk road. But the time of the oases, camels and other wonders of the desert is far away for this city, the furthest from the world of the sea (2 250 km)… Today, the skyscrapers come to the halls, which are followed by residential buildings themselves. Urumqi was very populous for the province (more than 2 million inhabitants), Urumqi was placed under the spotlight during the inter-racial riots of July 2008 and July 2009 which pitted the Han Chinese (mostly here) to the Uighurs. Since then, the city continues to develop in accordance with the principle that more wealth - more or less mixed evenly - mitigates the differences… In any case, the city is an important step, because it is the gateway to Xinjiang, but under no circumstances is a decisive stage in the discovery of Western China.

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Tianchi, le lac du paradis dans les environs d'Urumqi. Antoine RICHARD
Paysage urbain d'Urumqi. Alamer - Iconotec
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