Kümüx
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|subdivision_name2 = Turpan
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|subdivision_name3 = Toksun
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|demographics2_info1 = Uyghur{{cite web|url=http://www.xzqh.org/html/show/xj/22630.html|script-title=zh:1997年托克逊县行政区划|trans-title=1997 Toksun County Administrative Divisions|date=11 January 2011|accessdate=29 June 2020|website=XZQH.org|quote={{lang|zh-hans|库米什镇 1984年设镇。位于县城以南，距县城100千米。 面积约812平方千米，人口0.05万，其中维吾尔族约占88.1％。辖库米什居委会和柯尔克孜铁米、英博斯坦2村委会。}}}}
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Kümüx{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/CompleteAtlasOfTheWorld3rdEdition2016|title=Complete Atlas Of The World|edition=3|publisher=Penguin Random House|page=[https://archive.org/details/CompleteAtlasOfTheWorld3rdEdition2016/page/n239 238]|quote=Kümüx{...}Kuruktag|via=Internet Archive|date=2016}}{{GEOnet2|32FA8826E5343774E0440003BA962ED3|Kümüx (Approved - N)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Kumishi; {{lang|ug|كۈمۈش بازىرى}}{{GEOnet2|4079295DAF022317E0440003BA962ED3|كۈمۈش (Variant Non-Roman Script - VS)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency / {{lang|zh-hans|{{linktext|库米什|镇}}}}) is a town in Toksun County, Turpan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
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Name
'Kümüx' ({{lang|ug|كۈمۈش}}) means 'silver' in Uyghur. Silver is mined in the area.{{cite book|script-title=zh:地名中的新疆|language=zh-hans|date=2003|ISBN=7-228-08004-1|author=Xie Yuzhong {{lang|zh-hans|解玉忠}}|location=Ürümqi|publisher=Xinjiang People's Press|page=30}}{{cite book|script-title=zh:新疆地名与传说故事|language=zh-hans|editor=Wen Hao {{lang|zh-hans|文昊}}|location=Ürümqi|date=January 2007|ISBN=978-7-80744-012-3|publisher={{lang|zh-hans|新疆美术摄影出版社}}, {{lang|zh-hans|新疆电子音像出版社}}|page=9|series={{lang|zh-hans|走进新疆丛书}}}}
Kümüx has also been written in Chinese characters as Kumushi ({{lang|zh-hant|庫穆什}} / {{lang|zh-hant|库穆什}} and {{lang|zh-hant|庫木什}} / {{lang|zh-hant|库木什}}).
History
In 1984, Kümüx Town was established.
In December 2010, Zeng Lingquan ({{lang|zh-hans|曾令权}}), who ran an adoption agency for the physically and mentally disabled with no operation license in Sichuan, was arrested. Zeng reportedly sent the mentally ill to work in a factory run by Li Xinglin ({{lang|zh-hans|李兴林}}) where they were enslaved and worked year round (instead of seasonally as with other local factories) in unsafe conditions at the Jia'ersi Green Construction Material Chemical Factory ({{lang|zh-hans|佳尔思绿色建材化工厂}}) in Kümüx.{{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-12/14/content_11701899.htm|title=Asylum owner detained for selling mentally ill|date=14 December 2010|accessdate=23 June 2020|website=China Daily}}{{cite web|url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/dfpd/2010-12/14/content_11698840.htm|script-title=zh:智障包身工遭奴役：黑工厂老板逃逸 新疆警方跨省抓捕|language=zh-hans|date=14 December 2010|accessdate=30 June 2020|website=China Daily|quote={{lang|zh-hans|目前，托克逊县库米什佳尔思绿色建材化工厂已被查封，}}}}{{cite web|url=http://en.people.cn/90001/90776/90883/7232523.html|title=Officials punished over abuse of mentally ill workers in northwest China's Xinjiang}}
Geography
The nearby Kuruktag{{GEOnet2|32FA882715B13774E0440003BA962ED3|Kuruktag (Approved - N)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Kuluketage; 库鲁克塔格) mountains (at around {{coord|41|30|N|090|00|E}}) are a source of gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron and other metals as well as asbestos, marble, mengfeitu ({{lang|zh|蒙肥土}}), limestone, table salt, mirabilite, gypsum and quartz.
Administrative divisions
Kümüx includes one residential community and two villages:{{cite web |url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2019/65/04/650422.html |script-title=zh:2019年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：库米什镇 |trans-title=2019 Statistical Area Numbers and Rural-Urban Area Numbers: Kümüx Town |language=zh-hans |publisher=National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China |date=2019 |accessdate=29 June 2020 |quote={{lang|zh-hans|统计用区划代码 城乡分类代码 名称 650422101001 121 库米什社区 650422101200 220 柯尔克孜铁米村委会 650422101201 220 英博斯坦村委会}}}}
Residential community:
- Kümüx (Kumishi; {{lang|zh-hans|库米什社区}})
Villages:
- Qirghiz tam (Ke'erkezitiemi; {{lang|ug|قىرغىز تام كەنتى}}{{cite web|url=http://uy.ts.cn/system/2019/10/18/035932563.shtml|script-title=ug:ئالتۇن رەڭ كەچ كۈز، گۈزەل توغراق|language=ug|date=22 October 2019|accessdate=30 June 2020|website=Tianshannet|author=Mehrigul Nasir {{lang|ug|مىھرىگۈل ناسىر}}|quote={{lang|ug|10- ئاينىڭ 16- كۈنى، توقسۇن ناھىيەسىنىڭ كۈمۈش بازىرى قىرغىز تام كەنتىنىڭ بەش كىلومېتىر جەنۇبىدىكى تاغ ئېتىكىگە جايلاشقان ئالتۇن رەڭ توغراقلىق خۇددى بىر پارچە ماي بوياق رەسىمگە ئوخشايدۇ.}}}} / {{lang|zh-hans|柯尔克孜铁米村}})
- Yëngi bostan (Yingbositan; {{lang|ug|يېڭى بوستان كەنتى}} / {{lang|zh-hans|英博斯坦村}}) {{coord|42|11|08|N|088|22|42|E}}{{GEOnet2|FC1B42BD04045803E04304F7D6A4F5EC|Yingbositan (Approved - N)}}, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Economy
Kümüx is an important stop on the road from Ürümqi to Kashgar. There are restaurants, a transport and shipping station, a regional weather station, hotel, post office, gas station, etc. There is little arable land in the surrounding area and spring water is used in irrigation.
Demographics
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|2010|1389
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{{asof|2003}}, more than 600 persons lived in Kümüx, mostly Uyghur. {{asof|1997}}, 88.1% of the population of Kümüx were Uyghur.
During the Qing Dynasty, Kümüx was described as having twenty or more households.
Transportation
Historical maps
Historical English-language maps including Kümüx:
File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nk-45-3rd-ed.jpg|Map including Kümüx (labeled as Kʻu-mi-shih) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (DMA, 1975)
File:Operational Navigation Chart F-7, 4th edition.jpg|From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Kumüx (DMA, 1982)
File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566_f-7d.jpg|Map including Kümüx (DMA, 1990)
References
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