Location
located to the southwest of Xinjiang
Uyghur
Autonomous Region, south Tianshan mountain, the
northwest rim of Tarim Basin, it borders
Awat, Karakash to the
east, Kelin, Akhqi
to the north, Mekit, Guma to
the south, Peyziwat, Yopurga, and Atush city
to the west.
Origin
In West Han Dynasty it was under the
jurisdiction of the "Weitou" State one of the 36
states in the Western Regions.
In the North Wei period it was under the
jurisdiction of "Qiuci" state, and "Shule" in Sui
Dynasty; in Tang Dynasty, it was "Weitou" under the
jurisdiction of the Anxi Superintendent's office;
and in Song, it was under the charge of "Shule"
state again. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasty, it was annexed
territory of Chagatai
Kingdom, Yerqiang Kingdom and Zhungar
Kingdom. In the 24th year of Qianlong reign in the Qing
Dynasty, it was under the charge of Kashgar
official, in the ninth year of
Guangxu reign Malarbashi county was
established under the charge of Kashgar, in 1902, it
was given to Shache, in 1913 Maralbishi
county was
established under the charge of kashgar prefecture.After liberation, it was under the jurisdiction of
South Xinjiang Prefecture and in June,1956 it was
under the charge of Kashgar
prefecture.
Administrative Division
It has jurisdiction over 8 village, 8 townships, 5
farms, 186 administrative villages,13 city
residents' committee and 8 farms of the third Regime
of the XJPCC
Population and Territory
In its total area of 21,700 square kilometers, the
total population is 265000 (exclude 110,000 people
in the XJPCC), among them
the non-agriculture population is 49,000, taking
18.58% of the total population.
Natural Characteristics
The County tilts to one side towards northeast
from the southwest, the
topography is characterized by four major types,
i.e., plain, aggraded flood plain,
desert, and mountainous area.
Its climate belongs to dry continental temperate
zone, the annual mean temperature of the air is 11.7
℃s .
Natural Resources
Mineral resources is abundant, the major ones
are petroleum, iron, copper, titanium, amethyst
, lead, agate, diamond, limestone, gypsum, rock
salt. Wild plants are
diversifolious poplar, mushroom, licorice, dogbane,
Ruta graveolens, herba ephedrae.
People's Living Standards
The total output value was 1,060,000,000 Yuan
RMB, total agriculture and industrial production
value was 1,150,000,000 Yuan
RMB in 2003, among them the industry total production value was
90,000,000 Yuan RMB, agriculture total production
value was 1,060,000,000 Yuan
RMB. The average urban resident's income is 13,624 Yuan
RMB, the net income of farmers is 1,580 Yuan RMB.
Industry
There are 29 enterprises now.
Agriculture
There are arable land of 697,000 mou,
2.6 mou per capita, the
grain yield amounts to 144,400 tons,
cotton yield totaled 1,100,000 dan.
Tax Income
In 2003, the county completed the public finance
income 33,900,000 Yuan RMB, local tax revenue
6,560,000 Yuan RMB , and
national tax revenue 3,830,000 Yuan RMB.
Financing institutions
are ready and complete to
deal with come-and-go business from home and abroad.The extra deposit of the urban and rural residents
amounted to more than 850,000,000 Yuan RMB.
Business and Investment
There are 2,914 business networks with a staff
of 4,125 and completed the total volume of retail
sales of social consumer goods 16,834
Yuan RMB and the total volume of 30,654 Yuan RMB of
the tertiary industry .The overall investment drew
in was 150,000,000 Yuan RMB.
Non-stateowned enterprises keeps a strong momentum
for further development.
There were 5,446 registered non-stateowned
enterprises with
registered capital of 85,040,000 Yuan RMB and
created a tax revenue of 20,510,000 Yuan RMB.
Transportation and
Communication
Traffic is easy and quick, national highway 314 and
regional highway 215, and south Xinjiang Railway
running through the county, every hundred square
kilometers has 6.5 kilometers public road .
In 1999, the whole section of the south Xinjiang
railway was put into use. The rail station is only 5
kilometers from the county and it has
become the hub of Kashgar, Khotan, Ali area in Tibet
and passenger and goods collecting and distributing
center.
There are 30,000 SPC telephone customers, all of
which can enjoy optical fibre communication;
the mobile telephone customer attained 33,000, every
hundred persons has 7.29 telephones.
Culture, education, science and technology
There are cultural organizations, such as library
and house of culture.
Every village has radio and cabled TV.
There is one television station, one broadcasting
station with 32 channels. Nine villages have set up TV transpose stations, 12
villages can receive cabled TV program, 9 villages
built up the frequency
modulation broadcasting station, the coverage rate
of the radio and TV are 94% and 92% respectively.
There are 141 schools with 69,694 students in
school, among which one secondary technical school
for adult. The rate of school age children's entry into primary
school amounted to 99.99%, the consolidation rate is
97.5%; The rough enrollment rate of high school student is
107%, the net rate is 73.2%, the consolidation rate
is 88%. 270 students entered college in 2003, the admission
rate amounted to 88%. A great number of students have got prizes in
national and provincial level competitions for many
times.
Athletics and Hygiene
Here has one amateur's athletic sports school
and is home town of Doran dance. Horse-racing,
wrestling and ball games are very popular
in both rural and urban area.
In April 1987 it was granted "Advanced County of
National Athletics" by the State Council.
There are 20 medical treatment organizations with 28
medical workers,
every 10 thousand people have 32 hospital beds.
Featured Industry
Industry is dominated by grain, edible oil,
cotton, and crude salt.
Natural Landscape and Human Landscape
Historic relics are the ruins of "Weitou" City,
bacon towers of Tang Dynasty "Kuoshitim", "Youmlatim",
"Qiaerbag Mazaar" of the late
Qing Period, etc..
The tenth five-year-plan
Guided by Deng xiaoping Theory and the Three
Represents, follow the spirit of economic meetings
of the central government, Xinjiang
province and local
government, undertake the foremost task of further
development, center on
readjusting industrial structure, motivated by
prospering Maralbishi County through science,
technology and
intelligence, deepen reform, strengthen opening up,
seize opportunity, work hard, make overall plans and
take all factors into consideration,
so as to realize the goal of the healthy,
coordinate, quick and ongoing social development in
an all-around way.
Major Train of Thoughts
focus on one key issue——enrich people and strengthen
the county develop 2 key
area——2 economic circle certered on
rely on three
roads——national highway 314, county freeway 215 and
the south Xinjiang railway
set up four bases——national quality cotton base,
animal husbandry base, forestry and fruits base, and
licorice planting base
foster five economy growth points- cotton industry,
animal husbandry, forestry, processing, market
development and circulation.
form six industry- cotton industry, fruit, foresty
and vegetables industry, livestock and farming
industry, licorice industry,
industries, the tour industries.
Through unremittingly efforts, complete the tenth
five-year-plan, by 2010 reach the target of double
the CDP and increase the
speed of economic growth by 15% compared with of
that in 2000.
By 2005, GDP totals 1,374,000,000 Yuan RMB, up by
15%.
Among them the industry added value of the primary
industry is 674,000,000 Yuan RMB, increase by 6.4%,
the secondary industry is
183,000,000 Yuan RMB, increase by 18.1% year on
year, the tertiary industry is 517,000,000
Yuan RMB, increase by 27.1%;
The public finance income attains 48,000,000 Yuan
RMB, increase by 23%.
Readjust the proportion of the primary, secondary
and tertiary industry to 60:16:24, the net income of
farmer exceed 2,000 dollars.
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