Background information on Hami Station

Located in the eastern part of Xinjiang, Hami is the gateway from Xinjiang to the mainland of the motherland. Its geographic coordinates are 91°06′33″-96°23′00″ east longitude and 40°52′47″-45°05′33″ north latitude, with an average elevation of 2692.1 meters. Hami has a typical continental climate, characterized by "hot in the south and cool in the north". The total area is 153,000 square kilometers, accounting for 9% of the total area of Xinjiang. The total population is 510,000 people. Regional jurisdiction over the city of Hami, Barkun Kazakh Autonomous County and Yigu County, with 38 townships (towns). The region is stationed in the Tuha Oil Exploration and Development Command, Xinjiang Hami Coal Group Company, Corps Agricultural 13 Division, Hami Railway Bureau, the new steel group YaManSu iron ore mine and other 21 central, autonomous regions, its population accounted for 39% of the total population of the region.

Hami was known as "Iwu Lu" in ancient times, and its history can be traced back to the 11th century B.C. to the Western Zhou Dynasty in 771 B.C., which is more than 3,000 years ago. In 60 BC, Hami belonged to the central dynasty (Western Han Dynasty), under the jurisdiction of the Western Province, formally incorporated into the territory of the motherland. During the Tang Dynasty, Western Yizhou (later changed to Yizhou) was set up, the Ming Dynasty set up the Hami Guard, and the Qing Dynasty enthroned the King of Hami. Hami is a place of multi-ethnicity, now inhabited by 28 ethnic groups such as Han, Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolia, etc., of which 160,000, or 32%, are Uyghur-dominated ethnic minorities. People of all ethnic groups in the process of long-term historical development, suffering and ****, in the same boat ****, formed to safeguard the unity of the motherland and the unity of the nation, against foreign aggression and ethnic division of the glorious tradition, for the development, construction and defense of the Hami has made due contribution .