According to a list obtained and partially verified by the Associated Press, Shufu county has the highest imprisonment rate of any location in the world.[8]
Name
The names of "Shufu County" and nearby "Shule County", transliterations of local language names from the Han dynasty corresponds to its Uyghur names, "Kona Xahar" (meaning 'old city'[1]) and "Yengi Xahar" (New City) respectively. The names for the two counties in both languages may share their origins in languages of the Saka people, residents of Kashgar area before its linguistic Turkification in as late as the 11th century.[9]
In 2013, Awat Township (Awati; ئاۋات يېزىسى / 阿瓦提乡) and Yëngi'östeng Township (Yingwusitan; يېڭىئۆستەڭ يېزىسى / 英吾斯坦乡) were transferred to Kashgar city.[2]
On December 15, 2013, 16 people were killed in an attack on a police station. A group, armed with knives and bombs, attacked the police station and killed two police officers.[10] In the aftermath 14 of the 16 attackers were killed by police special units.[11]
On October 21, 2014, Aqqash Township (Akekashi) was transferred from Konaxahar (Shufu) County to Kashgar city.[2]
In 2017, Erkin Ayup, brother of Abduweli Ayup, who had recently been promoted as head of oversight for the Organization Department of the Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in his hometown of Tokkuzak (Tuokezhake), went missing. In an interview conducted by Radio Free Asia, a staffer at his former office said he had been sent to an internment camp near Kashgar Airport.[13]
In interviews with Radio Free Asia in 2020, residents and officials of the county stated that it was no longer possible to perform traditional Uyghur nikah marriage rites in the county.[14]
Demographics
The proportion of nationalities in Shufu County, 2018
The county is an important area for wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton, and rice production in southern Xinjiang, as well as producing apricots, grapes, pomegranates, muskmelon, pistachio and other fruits. Industries include cotton spinning, food, cotton ginning and others.[1]
^1997年疏附县行政区划. XZQH.org (in Simplified Chinese). 19 November 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2020. 1997年，面积4146平方千米，人口37万，有维吾尔、汉、柯尔克孜、哈萨克等13个民族，其中维吾尔族占98.63％，
^Shohret Hoshur; Rachel Vandenbrink (11 June 2014). "Six Killed, Two Injured in Fresh Xinjiang Clashes". Radio Free Asia. Translated by Mamatjan Juma. Retrieved 5 April 2020. Four of the men were shot in Kashgar prefecture's Konasheher (in Chinese, Shufu) county in a confrontation triggered when local officials lifted a woman's veil during a house check in her village a week ago, police there said.
^Qiao Long (19 September 2019). Luisetta Mudie (ed.). "'There Was a Cemetery Outside The Detention Center in Kashgar:' Asylum Seeker". Radio Free Asia. Translated by Luisetta Mudie. Retrieved 5 April 2020. Last year, his team was sent to work in a women's prison in Kashgar (Kashi) prefecture's Kona Sheher (Shufu) county, near the city of Kashgar, where around 500 "terrorists" were incarcerated, the vast majority of them ethnic minority Muslim Uyghurs.
^ abShohret Hoshur; Joshua Lipes (5 December 2019). "Brother of Uyghur Linguist Confirmed Held in Xinjiang Internment Camp For Years". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 7 April 2020. Erkin Ayup, a graduate of Xinjiang University in the XUAR capital Urumqi, was detained shortly after being promoted as head of oversight for the Organization Department of the Committee of the Communist Party of China for his hometown of Toquzaq in Kashgar's Kona Sheher (Shufu) county in 2017, but his whereabouts had since been unknown.
^"President Xi Jinping makes inspection tour in Xinjiang". Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China (from Xinhua News Agency). 4 May 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2020. Chinese President Xi Jinping (4th L) talks with local people while visiting a villager's home in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 28, 2014. Xi made an inspection tour in Xinjiang from April 27 to 30. Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) poses for a group photo with pupils and teachers of the central primary school in Tokkuzak Township, Shufu County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 28, 2014. Xi made an inspection tour in Xinjiang from April 27 to 30.
^3-7 各地、州、市、县(市)分民族人口数 [3-7 Population by Nationality by Prefecture, State, City and County (City)]. tjj.xinjiang.gov.cn (in Chinese). Statistical Bureau of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 2020-06-10. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
^2019年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：疏附县 (in Simplified Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2020. 统计用区划代码 名称 653121100000 托克扎克镇 653121101000 兰干镇 653121102000 吾库萨克镇 653121103000 乌帕尔镇 653121201000 塔什米里克乡 653121202000 铁日木乡 653121203000 布拉克苏乡 653121204000 萨依巴格乡 653121205000 站敏乡 653121211000 木什乡 653121400000 县种畜场 653121401000 县园艺场 653121402000 县林场 653121403000 县良种场 653121406000 疏附广州工业城
^3-7 各地、州、市、县(市)分民族人口数 (in Chinese (China)). Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics. Archived from the original on 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2017-09-03.
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