Located in the heart of Eurasia and Xinjiang, on the northeastern edge of the Tarim Basin, the city leans on the Kuruk and Khora mountains, a branch of the Tianshan Mountains, and is bordered by the world's second-largest desert, the Taklamakan Desert, to the south. "Korla" is a Uyghur word meaning "looking out". It is also known as the Pear City, as it is rich in fragrant pears.
Korla has a long history and was a major thoroughfare on the ancient Silk Road. In 630 A.D., the Buddhist monk Xuanzang took the scriptures in the west had passed through Korla. Most of the city once belonged to one of the 36 countries of the ancient western region of the drainage plow country. As far back as the Neolithic Age, there were human activities in the Peacock River Basin. During the reign of Emperor Shenjue of the Western Han Dynasty, the Western Regions were guarded by an army in the present-day Peacock River Delta by building a subdivided city, Enclosure Lou. Later, the embankment and evolved into the East Han Dynasty Jenn Li City, the Northern Wei Dynasty Liu Donkey City and the Yuan Dynasty Kunlu City. 1939 Korla by the Bureau of governance up to the county. After the founding of New China, Korla County has become the seat of the Korla Special Department and the party and government leadership organs of Bayin'guoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture. 1979 June, the State Council approved the establishment of Korla City from Korla County. 1984, the county and the city were merged.
At present, Korla is the capital of the Bayin'guoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the first largest prefecture in China, and is the political, economic, cultural, educational, and information center of the prefecture, as well as one of the two key development cities identified by the Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The city has a total area of 7116.9 square kilometers and a total population of 380,000, with 82 people per 1,000 with college education or above, and 23 nationalities, including Han, Wei, Meng and Hui, with ethnic minorities accounting for 30.1%. Municipal jurisdiction over 9 townships, 2 towns, 5 agricultural and animal husbandry farms, 5 city offices, another 3 state agricultural and animal husbandry farms and agricultural division belongs to 3 agricultural farms. In the city, there are the Second Agricultural Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the Tarim Oilfield Branch, the Tarim Petrochemical Project Construction Command, and the South Xinjiang Railway Pro Management Office and other central and autonomous units.
Korla's unique geographic location has given rise to unique tourism resources. Historically, Korla was the choke point of the middle route of the Silk Road. At present, there are 14 national-level cultural relics protection sites, 40 second-level cultural relics protection sites, and 240 cultural relics and monuments included in the national cultural relics archives around it. It attracts countless Chinese and foreign travelers and scientists. There are also many unique natural landscapes around Korla, such as the vast Lake Bosten, the vast and fascinating Bayinbuluk Grassland, the elegant and magical Swan Lake, the world-famous Lop Nor, the Kung Nai Si with its sea of pines and forests, the scenic Tarim River, the majestic Tien Shan stone forests, the "Yadan" wonders, and the world's longest desert highway with an altitude of 6973 meters above sea level, which is the longest in the world. Desert Highway, 6973 meters above sea level Muzheng Tag Ice Peak, are good places for people to travel and explore. In terms of ethnic customs, there are mainly Mongolian "Naadam", Uyghur "Maxilaev" and other folk culture and art, the mass base is very good, by the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang loved.
Korla, as a Chinese excellent tourist city, develops characteristic tourism industry with the following ideas: to take natural landscape as the basis, to take ethnic customs and folk culture as the main body, to build a new pattern of multi-level, multi-field and multi-faceted tourism development, to take the city resources as the center, to enhance the radiance to the surrounding tourist attractions, and to converge into a dispersed large tourist circle, and to develop into the mode of recreation, adventure, health care, shopping, participation and etc. actively. The city's tourism center will enhance the radiation of neighboring tourist attractions and converge into a large dispersed tourism circle.
The unique soil and water have produced unique agricultural resources. Korla city annual sunshine time is long, the temperature difference between day and night is big, very suitable for pear, melon, cotton, tomato, safflower and other economic crops growth, the formation of a unique agricultural resources advantage. Balsam pear is Korla city unique advantage of agricultural resources. Because of its high sugar content, rich flavor, tender flesh, crisp and juicy, storage resistance and other properties, known as "the king of the fruit", exported to Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions. At present, the city's balsam pear planting area has reached 265,000 acres, of which the results of the area of 54,000 acres, balsam pear total output of 4.0 million tons. Korla city is the traditional cotton production area, in 1995 was listed as the country's top 100 cotton production city. Produced by the cotton because of its color white, long fiber, strength and other excellent quality and favored by the region and foreign merchants. At present, the city's cotton planting area of about 250,000 acres, with a total output of about 500,000 quintals. Korla long-staple cotton, licorice paste products, tomato sauce, wild rooibos is also well-known.
Korla is the capital of Bayin'guoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, and is known as the Pear City because of its abundance of fragrant pears. The city has a total area of 7116.9 square kilometers, with a total population of 438,000 people (excluding the floating population.) In 2005, the city's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 24.24 billion yuan, an increase of 13.2% year-on-year; the local financial revenue reached 600 million yuan, an increase of 20.5%; the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen reached 4,981.92 yuan, an increase of 451.82 yuan; and the disposable income of urban residents reached 8,700 yuan. In 2005 China's top 100 counties (cities) ranked 62, 10 places higher than the previous year; in the fifth China's top 100 economic counties (cities) ranked 41st in the basic competitiveness of the rankings, becoming the only city in the northwest region to be shortlisted.
Korla has a long history and was the possession of Yanqi State and Duli State among the 36 states in the ancient Western Region. in June 1979, the city of Korla was approved by the State Council. This is a modern city full of charm, both the prosperity of the mainland city, but also the tranquility of the border towns; both the Loulan civilization and Milan culture, the historical origins of the culture of the Lop Nur, but also spacious streets, roads, skyscrapers lined with new city style; both the health of the city's unique cityscape cleanliness, elegance, but also a tourist city unique regional characteristics, ethnic flavors; both the clouds into the Tianshan, The majestic Kunlun, but also the Peacock River water through the city, the soft beauty of the gurgling water; both outside the city of snowy peaks, grasslands, deserts, idyllic landscapes, but also within the city of flowers and flowers, green forests and blue water, pavilions and pavilions, the night as a fairyland charm; both the Korla Pear and other specialties of the fruit treasures to promote the beauty of Korla, but also 3,000 years of "life but not death, death but not down, down and not rotten! "The golden poplar breeding Korla humanistic spirit; both the 23 nationalities and live in harmony, *** to build a home story, but also 100,000 troops to challenge the "Sea of Death", the desert highway across the desert feat ......
Korla as the capital of Bayin'guoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the Korla area has the following most for reference:
China's first large river - Bayin'guoleng Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the state area of 482,700 square kilometers, jurisdiction over eight counties and one city, a vast area. The capital city of Korla is known as the "Little Jiangnan Beyond the Seas".
The Taklamakan Desert, the largest desert in China, covers a total area of 337,600 square kilometers.
The Tarim River, China's longest inland river, crosses the desert from west to east.
Boston Lake, the largest inland freshwater lake in China, covers an area of 988 square kilometers.
China's largest alpine grassland, Bayinbuluk Grassland, covers a total area of about 23,000 square kilometers.
The Tarim Basin, the largest basin in China, covers an area of about 530,000 square kilometers.
China's only swan nature reserve, Bayinbuluk Swan Lake Nature Reserve, covers an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers.
China's largest alpine wildlife reserve, Arjinshan Nature Reserve, covers an area of 44,940 square kilometers.
China's only wild camel nature reserve - located in the southeast of Arjinshan District, with an area of 1,700 square kilometers.
China's only desert forest park - located in the desert on the north bank of Tarim River in Luntai County.
China's largest poplar forest reserve - the native poplar forest in the Tarim River Basin, covering a total area of 3880 square kilometers.
China's largest oil and natural gas exploration area - the Tarim Basin's oil and natural gas reserves account for one-seventh and one-quarter of the country's total, with 10.8 billion tons of oil resources and 8.4 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves. The annual production capacity of 4.3 million tons of oil has been formed.
China's largest asbestos-producing areas are the Mangya Asbestos Mine in Ruoqiang County and the Apa Asbestos Mine in Qimo County, with reserves of 25.88 million tons of asbestos, accounting for 30% of the country's total.
China's largest troglodyte-producing area - the troglodyte mine in Yuli County, with reserves of 28.8 million tons.
China's most important reed-producing area, Bosten Lake, produces 300,000 tons of reeds annually, and is one of the four major reed-producing areas in China, as well as China's important raw material base for papermaking.
China's most important licorice production area - the annual harvestable amount of about 5,000-10,000 tons.
China's largest wild rooibos production area - an area of about 8 million mu, with an annual harvest of 100,000 tons of hemp skin and a large number of hemp leaves.
China's largest ephedra-producing area--Ephedra is expensive and is a special medicinal material, and the Heshuo County Ephedrine Factory is the largest ephedrine production base in China.
China's most important long-staple cotton producing area--Korla produces long-staple cotton with high yield and good quality, which is the raw material for high-grade worsted spinning, with an annual output of about 2,000 tons.
China's most important hops production area - in recent years the planting area of about 1,733 hectares, with an annual output of more than 1,000 tons.
The world's longest graded highway built in the flowing desert--Tarim Desert Highway, with a total length of 522 kilometers across the Taklamakan Desert, is a miracle in the history of the world's highways.