Population density: 4 persons/km2

Postal Code: 843600 Code: 652929 Area Code: 0997 Pinyin: Keping County

Keping County is located at the northwest edge of Tarim Basin, at the south foot of Kuertege Mountain. It borders Aksu and Awati in the east, Keping Mountain and bachu county in Kashgar in the south and southwest, and Akqi County in Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest and north. Keping Town, the county seat, is 46 kilometers away from Urumqi Highway1/kloc-0. There are four ethnic groups: Uygur, Han, Hui and Kirgiz. The total area is 8977 square kilometers. The total population is 40,000 (2004). The county people's government is located in Keping Town, which is 46 kilometers away from Urumqi Highway1/KLOC-0.

The terrain inclines from northwest to southeast and is divided into three parts: northeast, southwest mountainous area, county basin and Achale plain. Water resources include Keping River and Hongshazhi River. It belongs to temperate continental arid climate, with abundant sunshine, less precipitation and large evaporation. There are many dry and hot winds in spring and summer, with annual average temperature 1 1.4℃ and annual average precipitation of 72 mm.

administrative division

Keping County governs 1 town and 4 townships: Keping Town, Gezilike Township, Yurqi Township, Achale Township and air billow Township. County People's Government in Keping Town.

Keping town

Code: 652929 100 governs 2 communities and 1 village committee: Gulubage Community, Yarbagh Community and Kalakuti Village.

Gaizilike town

Code: 652929200 governs 9 village committees: Pasong Village, Gezilike Village, Kumuluke Village, Karama Village, You Si Tong Kash Airike Village, Tuowankash Airike Village, Baglek Village, Kumuyer Village and Su Bercy Village Village.

Achale town

Code: 652929202 governs 7 village committees: Tula Village, Kumuluke Village, Gezilike Village, Kalama Village, Kule Village, tuanjie village Village and Lan Qi Village.

Air billow town

Code: 652929203 governs 9 village committees: Ustangboyi Village, Noback Village, Bostam Village, Qiman Village, Tomabashi Village, Cocqueteaux Jieraker Village, Bageqi Village, Saibagege Village and Bulake Village.

Yurqi town

Code: 65292920 1 Administers 7 village committees: Yurqi Village, Youkurisi Village, Areyimake Village, Yustunkumu Airike Village, Tuowankumu Airike Village, Tuoma Airike Village and Tiereke Awati Village.

The development of history

According to historical records, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Han people called Ke Ping Ke Leping, and the Uighurs called Ke Ping. It was not until 1903 that it was designated as Keping, which is still in use today. It is said that Keping means "flood" or "underground nest".

It belonged to Qiuci in ancient times and Wensu in Qing Dynasty. In the 28th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1902), it was founded as Fenfang County, which was under the jurisdiction of Wensu House. 1928 There is a county assistant, which is Keping County, Aksu County. Keping County was formally established 1930, which belongs to Aksu Road. After liberation, it has always belonged to Aksu area (region).

In 2000, Keping County administered 1 town and 4 townships: Keping Town, Yurqi Township, Achale Township and Gezilike Township. According to the data of the fifth census, the total population of the county is 38,584, including 602 1 person in Keping Town, 2878/person in Gezilike Township, 2095 10885 in Yurqi Township, 6704/person in Achale Township and 2878/person in air billow Township.

Geography and hydrology

The terrain inclines from northwest to southeast and is divided into three parts: northeast, southwest mountainous area, county basin and Achale plain. Water resources include Keping River and Hongshazhi River. It belongs to temperate continental arid climate, with abundant sunshine, less precipitation and large evaporation. There are many dry and hot winds in spring and summer, and precipitation is mainly concentrated in summer. Light, heat and water coexist, which provides sufficient light and heat conditions for the development of forest and fruit industry in the county. The annual average temperature is 1 1.4℃, and the annual average precipitation is 72 mm.

natural resource

There are many kinds of mineral resources in Keping County. The mineral resources that have been preliminarily proved are sulfur, pyrite, pyrite, magnets, brown iron, petroleum, copper, lead, phosphorus, zinc, uranium, coal, gypsum, timely, crystal, jade, agate, limestone, Iceland spar, basalt, etc. 19, among which sulfur and pyrite have been mined for many years.

Keping County is the only place where the ancient "Silk Road" passed. It has a long history and was inhabited as early as the Neolithic Age. In 60 BC, Keping became an inseparable part of the motherland after the Western Han Dynasty established the Western Regions' Duhu Government. There are as many as 13 ancient sites in Keping County, mostly from Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty. Among them, Kessletag Buddhist Temple, Qiudaytag Castle, Yayi Beacon Tower and Lan Qi Beacon Tower have high protection and appreciation value, and other spectacular mountains and rivers and peculiar landforms also provide good conditions for the development of tourism.

economic development

Keping County, with a total land area of 12047 square kilometers, is a county with agriculture as the mainstay and animal husbandry accounting for a certain proportion. The existing cultivated land area is 10.3 million mu, forest land area is 563,000 mu, and grassland area is 2410.5 million mu. Due to the lack of water resources in the county, there are still 2 million mu of wasteland suitable for agriculture that has not been developed and utilized due to lack of water. In order to fundamentally solve the problem of water shortage, the Laoqilang Pumping Irrigation Project in Keping County was approved for construction on 1996, with a total investment of 54 million yuan, an additional water volume of 3 cubic meters per second and a planned area of 60,000 mu. At present, it has been put into production.

The main crops and agricultural products planted in Keping County over the years include wheat, corn, millet, cotton, rice, melons and vegetables, oilseeds, safflower, apples and apricots. Apricot and camel hair are two famous specialties in Keping County, and a number of processing industries have been developed, which have played a very good role in increasing local fiscal revenue and the income of farmers and herdsmen.

According to the long-term development plan of Keping County, by 20 10, the county's total grain output will reach 30 million kilograms, the total cotton output will reach 2.55 million kilograms, the number of livestock will reach 220,000 at the end of the year, and the effective area of fruit trees will reach 25,000 mu. The total industrial and agricultural output value will reach174.59 million yuan, of which the total agricultural output value will reach168.84 million yuan, the total industrial output value will reach 5.75 million yuan, and the total output value of township enterprises will reach 50 million yuan.

cultural relic

Lan Qi Fengxiang

It is located at Gobi10.5km southwest of Lan Qi Village, Aqia Township, Keping County. It is surrounded by open desert plains. The alluvial plain of Kashi River in the south used to be a paradise for wild animals. It used to be the beacon tower of the Han Dynasty. After the establishment of Weitou County in the Tang Dynasty, it was strengthened and increased, making it a desert, and huge beacon towers could be observed in all directions. The height and perimeter of the existing sites are also the first in Xinjiang. Lan Qi beacon tower is about16m high, with a square bottom and a trapezoidal appearance. The southwest corner at the top of the beacon tower has collapsed and the east, west and north are well preserved. The construction method of beacon tower adopts split secondary construction. First, the rammed soil layer about 3 meters high with yellow mud is used as the foundation of the beacon tower, and a layer of tiled firewood is sandwiched between the rammed layers. The distance between rammed soil layer and firewood layer is 15-20cm. The main body of beacon tower is built with yellow adobe on the upper part of rammed soil layer. The size of the damaged soil is 35×24×28 cm, and the adobe layer is about 60 cm thick. A layer of firewood was laid between each layer of soil to reinforce the beacon tower. After the main body of the beacon tower is completed, yellow mud and a layer of firewood are rammed on the outer wall of the beacon tower to protect the adobe layer of the main body of the beacon tower for a long time. This architectural style of Lan Qi beacon tower is another style of beacon tower architecture in Aksu area in Tang Dynasty. Judging from the current preservation, debugging and state of the beacon tower, this architectural style has played a key role, making the beacon tower stand intact on the Gobi desert after more than 1000 years of wind and rain erosion. It fully demonstrates the outstanding architectural wisdom and art produced by the ancient working people in China to adapt to the harsh natural environment of the Western Region.

Lan Qi ancient city

Located 6 kilometers east of Lan Qi Village, Aqia Township, Keping County, between 79 38 ′ 5 ″ east longitude and 40 32 ′14 ″ north latitude, it is the former site of Qing Dynasty post station. Formerly known as Kuanna Xianer, its northwest is now air billow Township, Keping County, which is the only place where the Silk Road goes north. In the Han Dynasty, from Qiuci country to Shule country, it was a necessary grain and grass supply station for business travel. After the Tang Dynasty, Weitou County was established in Mutu earthquake area, so this place is the east gate of Weitou County. In the late Qing dynasty, the Akuta separatist regime fought fiercely with the left army here. This site covers a large area, and the remaining buildings have complex functions, including civil buildings, military buildings, religious buildings and agricultural reclamation sites. This ancient city consists of two parts. Some are platforms (also known as fortresses), official houses and relatively complete towers and walls in the northwest. The platform is 13m long, 8m wide and 5m high, and is made of rammed earth. The city wall is only 1, which is about 80 meters long and 5 meters high in the north-south direction. Nearly 30 cribs are regularly built on the city wall. There is a 1 gate in the middle of the city wall, which is about 2.5 meters wide. There is a rectangular turret at the northern end of the city wall, about 6 meters high, with a top surface length of 12 meters and a width of 7.5 meters. The protective wall on the turret is more than 7 meters high. The official residence is located about 30 meters west of the tower, with an area of 1.500 square meters. The floor tiles are left on the ground, and the remaining walls are made of blue bricks. The southeast part is residential building, with an area of about 75,000 square meters, most of which are broken walls, and the basic structure is still recognizable. There are 1 southwest streets and criss-crossing alleys in the residential area, and 1 dry pond in the urban area. The items collected at the site include copper coins and pottery fragments.

In 2020, the ranking of influential counties in rural revitalization communication was released, and Keping County ranked 265 th.