China's Reclaiming of Homeland Leads to Territorial Disputes? The Pamir Plateau, with its myriad of minerals, has made Britain and Russia more than a little jealous

The Pamir Plateau, a small piece of territory recovered by China in 2011.

It is well known that China's territory is sacrosanct, so how did the Pamir Plateau leave the embrace of the motherland, and how was it recovered, and what impact did it have on China?

In this issue, we will reveal them all.

In ancient Chinese history, there was a time when the country was much larger than it is now, and when China was a prosperous, beautiful, and rich country. It wasn't until the late Qing Dynasty that the decline and fall of the Qing government left the country at the mercy of others.

The Pamir Plateau was an important territory that was carved out, and to this day it has not been fully recovered.

The Pamir Plateau is in the southwestern part of China's Xinjiang province, known as the Onion Ridge in ancient times, and is known as the Roof of the World.

It is also known as the Buzhou Mountain, in this region there is also a legend, **** worker anger touched the Buzhou Mountain.

The Pamir Plateau was also part of China's ancient Silk Road, and countless caravans, armies, monks, and emissaries have traveled into this plateau region over the centuries. The Silk Road was a great help to the development of the countries along the route and boosted the local economy.

At that time, various caravans would pass by Buzhou Mountain, and because of its lush and green characteristics, people gave it another name, called Onion Ridge.

It can be said that this place also witnessed the development of China, and is a witness to the history of China.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army fought off foreign enemies in pursuit of the Great and Small Hutchins, came to the Pamir Plateau and erected a stone monument.

After the Qing Dynasty recovered the southern border, it strengthened its control over the Pamir region by establishing eight Karens and sending heavy troops to defend the area.

When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the Qing Dynasty's coffers were empty, its military strength was depleted, and it was unable to defend itself against foreign enemies because of the civil wars within the country. The Tsarist Russian Empire took advantage of the situation, and successively occupied important territories such as the Tala Tala River and the Ili River, and other important territories in the borderlands.

At that time, the Pamir Plateau belongs to China, there is no objection, and then later, the Qing Dynasty and the Tsarist Russian Empire signed the "Sino-Russian survey and division of the Northwest Boundary Treaty", but also mentioned the Onion Ridge as the boundary, the Pamir Plateau is still in the territory of China.

In 1881, and the Qing Dynasty signed the Sino-Russian Treaty of Ili, the treaty wrote the Qing Dynasty and the Tsarist Russia on the Pamir Plateau boundary line are recognized, there is no dispute.

But the Tsarist Russian empire was eyeing this region and was not satisfied with the status quo, ignoring this treaty.

Later on, some unequal treaties were signed with China and the starting point of the demarcation line between the two countries in the Pamir region was re-routed and shifted from the Arai Ridge in the north of the Pamir to the Uzbeyli Pass in the northeast.

It was also stated therein that starting from Uzbeyli Pass to the south, the demarcation line of the Tsarist Russian Empire was shifted to the south-west, while the Chinese demarcation line went all the way to the south, separating the triangular area in the middle of the boundary line between the two countries, which was the area to be negotiated.

In this way, the Tsarist Russian Empire successfully occupied a large part of the Pamir in China, but also the land under our control separated out a piece of land into the area to be determined, so that its belonging to a big problem.

However, Tsarist Russia's wolfishness was so great that it didn't take long for it to tear up the treaty and send out troops to attack the Pamirs and usurp the pending area.

In order to further expand its territory, it invaded the Qing control area and occupied the eastern part of the area within our boundaries, totaling more than 20,000 square kilometers.

The Tsarist Russian Empire also gave Britain a share in the attack on the Pamirs, with two successive divisions.

The first time was behind the back of the Qing government, the Tsarist Russian Empire in collaboration with the British to the southwest Pamir region equally, the second time and the southeast Pamir region out of hand, divided into two.

At the end of the day, China's actual area of control, in addition to the Taktunbashi and Langkuli Pamir, a small portion of the other into the pockets of Tsarist Russia and Britain.

But China has never forgotten the Pamirs, and after the founding of New China, it wanted to get them back, but the time gap was too long, and the historical problems were too many to coordinate in a fair and peaceful way.

With the fall of Tsarist Russia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Pamir region is also changing, and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a part of the Pamir region was given to Tajikistan.

In 1999, China and Tajikistan negotiated and signed an agreement on the Sino-Tajik border. In the early days of Tajikistan's statehood, China assisted it in many ways, whether it was economic development or nation building, and helped where it could.

Afterwards, the two countries had close contacts, and Tajikistan wanted to return the Pamir region in its territory to China in order to thank China for its assistance.

It was not until April 27, 2010, more than a hundred years later, that China and Tajikistan negotiated and signed a protocol on the China-Tajikistan state line.

Tajikistan returned to China an area of 1,158 square kilometers westward from Sayanquat Ridge in the area under its actual jurisdiction, defining the demarcation line between China and Tajikistan.

The next year after the signing of the agreement, China and Tajikistan conducted a handover ceremony of the area at the Pamir borderline.

Why the return of the Pamir region to China is of great benefit to China.

Because the Pamir region is very rich in mineral resources, containing a very large number of gold mines, with an estimated production of up to hundreds of thousands of tons. Gold is the passport to the global financial markets, and the detection of such a huge amount of gold ore will certainly benefit China's development in many ways.

The Pamir region also has a large amount of uranium ore, compared to everyone knows the usefulness of this thing, this mineral is an important raw material for the nuclear industry, no matter whether it is a large nuclear weapon atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, or nuclear power plants, they all need this natural raw material.

Uranium ore is still banned from trading in any country, so the discovery of this mineral source has a great benefit for the development of our nuclear industry.

Uranium in uranium ore has great uses in various fields such as medicine, agricultural production, industry, etc. For example, it can be used in medicine to eliminate bacteria and kill poison, treat cancer, clinical diagnosis, etc., it can be used as a medicine to prevent insect pests in agriculture, and it can be used in industry to be a tool for geological surveys.

Uranium ore is a non-renewable energy source, and with a little bit of it, a little bit less, in today's increasingly serious energy consumption, the protection and development of clean energy has become an important task for every country.

The Pamir region also contains a large number of metallic minerals, and the reserves of iron ore, lead ore, and zinc ore are ranked first in Central Asia.

China's development has a high demand for iron ore, which needs to be imported from Australia and Brazil every year. If the mineral resources of the Pamir region are rationally developed, China's development and economic strength will take a qualitative leap.

Of course, in addition to mineral resources, the Pamir region also contains many natural resources, the Pamir region has a large number of rare animals and plants, the scenery is also exceptionally beautiful.

This place is sparsely populated, and most of the locals are agricultural and animal husbandry personnel, pollution is not serious, go to the tourists a lot of people, tourism plays a big role in the development of the region.

There are two roads in the Pamir region that are important for the synergistic development of China and its neighboring countries: the Wakhan Corridor and the China-Pakistan Friendship Highway.

These are the main roads that China has used to trade with the Pakistan region from ancient times, and they have also led to another big project in the northwestern part of China: the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor opens up trade routes between the Xinjiang region and the Pakistan region.

China has helped Pakistan accelerate urban development with advanced science and technology, and in turn Pakistan has provided China with energy, minerals, and more, spurring the development of China's northwestern region.

The Pamir Plateau is also the heart of Central Asia, where China can use it to enhance its influence in Asia by moving towards West Asia and the Middle East in a friendly way.

The Pamir region is strategically important from a topographical point of view.

China's northwestern border of Xinjiang has a number of mountain ranges converging on it.

For example, the Himalayas, the Kunlun Mountains, the Tianshan Mountains, etc., roughly from east to west, coincidentally, the Pamir Plateau in the western part of the convergence of their region, as if a few ropes bundled together in the formation of small bumps, and therefore known as the mountain knot.

The southern region of the Pamir Plateau is connected to the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan, which is also an important watershed between the Amu Darya and the Indus River.

The Kunlun Mountains are where China meets Pakistan, and between the Kunlun Mountains and the Himalayas is Kashmir.

Specifically, the Pamir region is at the confluence of the Kashgar region of Xinjiang, the Tajikistan region and the Afghanistan region.

As can be seen, the Pamir leads to the Central Asian region in the north, the South Asian subcontinent in the south, the Afghan region in the west, and the Xinjiang region of China in the east.

The Pamir region connects West Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia and many other regions, is a very important transportation hub, its strategic value is very large. Both can defend against foreign enemies, but also can cause strategic suppression of the surrounding.

Many people believe that the Pamir Plateau is a deserted place, but it is for China, this is an inseparable treasure, which has a thousand years of Chinese cultural deposits, but also an indispensable part of China's unity.

We will guard this hard-won treasure, I believe that in the future China will build this region perfect, the high-speed rail construction and new energy and other aspects of investment in this area, so that the people in this area better life.

Although only part of the territory is now returned to the motherland, but in China's rapid development today, there is a great strength to make the rest of the territory return.