Tashidian

Tashidian

Tashidian

Town in Xinjiang, China

Tashidian (Chinese: 塔什店; pinyin: Tǎshídiàn; Wade–Giles: T'a3-shih2-tien4, Oirat: ᠲᠠᠱᠠᠳᠢᠶᠠᠨ tašadiyan, Uyghur: تاشدەن) is a town in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. It is located on the Kongque River and national road G218, about 10 km to the north of Korla. The town was founded in an effort to access the natural resources of the area.[1] It is the site of a coal mine (Tashidian Union Mining Company) and thermoelectric power plant.[2] At Tashidian, the Kongque River is spanned by the Tashidian Bridge, a stone arch road bridge with a span of 40m and a total length of 62 meters build in 1962.[3] It is the largest stone arch bridge in Xinjiang [4]

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The frost period in Tashidian lasts on average 187 days per year.[5]

Tashidian was made a part of Korla in 1979 and was given the status of town in March 2001. Around the same time, it had a population of about 20,000.[6]

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References

  1. [1]
    Anwar Rahman, "Sinicization Beyond the Great Wall: China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region", Troubador Publishing Ltd, 2005, page 17
  2. [2]
    "600 Thousand Tons per Year Colliery Expansion and Reconstruction Project"
  3. [3]
    "Tashidian Bridge". brueckenweb.de (in German).
  4. [4]
    Xinjiang Tashidian Bridge (in Chinese)
  5. [5]
    "Xinjiang Regional Road Improvement Project - Final Report" (PDF). Hong Kong: SMEC. November 2006. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
  6. [6]
    "Tashidian becomes a Town" (in Chinese) Archived 2007-06-14 at archive.today

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