The more famous folk songs in Xinjiang are as follows:
1 Song of the Lark
2 Mayella
3 The Lover
4 Spring in the Pamir
5 Gaolitei
6 In that Faraway Place
7 Dutar and Maria
8 Beautiful Girl
9 My Flowers
Xinjiang, short for "New". The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with the capital city of Urumqi, is located in the northwestern frontier of China. It is one of the five ethnic minority autonomous regions of China, and is also the largest provincial-level administrative region in China in terms of land area, with an area of 1,660,000 square kilometers, which accounts for one-sixth of China's total land area.
Xinjiang is located in the hinterland of the Asian and European continents, with a land border of more than 5,600 kilometers, bordering Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, India, and Afghanstan, which is historically an important passage of the ancient Silk Road, and is now the second Asia-Europe Continental Bridge. Now it is the second "Asia-Europe Continental Bridge", the strategic location is very important. Xinjiang has 47 ethnic components, mainly inhabited by Han, Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Kyrgyz, Siberian, Tajik, Uzbek, Manchu, Daur, Tatar, Russian and other nationalities, is one of the five ethnic minority autonomous regions in China. In the results of the sixth national census, Xinjiang ranked fifth in terms of the proportion of people with higher education in 24 provinces and municipalities. Xinjiang will fully implement the 14-year free education policy in the southern border areas, promote 14-year free education in other areas, and gradually realize 15-year free education in the region, i.e., three years of preschool, six years of elementary school, three years of junior high school and three years of senior high school.?
In 60 B.C.E., the central regime of the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Regions Capital Office, and Xinjiang officially became part of Chinese territory. In 1884, the Qing government set up a province in Xinjiang. 1949 saw the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang, and on October 1, 1955, the Xinjiang Autonomous Region was established. Xinjiang now has 14 prefectures, states and cities, and 89 counties (cities), of which 33 are border counties (cities).