Changji

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 昌吉 (Chāngjí).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃæŋˈd͡ʒiː/, /t͡ʃɑːŋˈd͡ʒiː/

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Changji

  1. A Hui autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China.
    • [1978 July 11 [1978 July 8], Wang Feng, “Leading Cadres Must Accept Criticism and Supervision From the Masses”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China[1], volume I, number 133, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page E 15:
      During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]
    • 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads[2], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:
      As elsewhere in Xinjiang, the number of Han Chinese throughout the Changji prefecture increased in the late 1950s. Towns and villages all along the main east-west road experienced considerable growth.
    • 2021 January 8, Ana Swanson, Christopher Buckley, “Chinese Solar Companies Tied to Use of Forced Labor”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 January 2021[4]:
      On its public WeChat account, East Hope Group said that it had “responded to the national Western Development Call and actively participated in the development and construction of Xinjiang,” including constructing a polysilicon project in Changji prefecture in 2016, the Horizon report said.
    • 2021 May 13, Cate Cadell, “Mosques disappear as China strives to 'build a beautiful Xinjiang'”, in Reuters[5], archived from the original on 13 May 2021, China‎[6]:
      In Changji, about 40 km west of the regional capital, Urumqi, green and red minarets of the city's Xinqu Mosque lay broken below a Chinese flag flying over the deserted building's courtyard.
      Reuters analysed satellite imagery of 10 mosques in Changji city and visited six of them.
      A total of 31 minarets and 12 green or gold domes had been removed within a period of two months after April 2018, according to dated images.
      At several mosques, Islamic architecture was replaced with Chinese-style roofing. These included Changji's Tianchi road mosque, whose gold dome and minarets were removed in 2018, according to publicly available satellite images.
  2. A county-level city in Changji, in northern Xinjiang, China.

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