Yining

The city of Yining is a county-level administrative unit located along Ili River. As of 2015, it has an estimated population of 542,507, with a total land area of {{convert|629|km2|abbr=on}}.{{cite web |title = Yining: Bulletin for economical and social development in 2015 |url = http://www.ahmhxc.com/tongjigongbao/3275_4.html |access-date = 20 April 2016}} It is the most populous city in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture.

The land area and population of the City of Yining saw an increase in 2003; the increase resulted from the transfer of two villages with some {{convert|100|km2|abbr=on}} of land from the adjacent Yining County, which is a separate administrative unit from the city.

Yining's population is primarily Uyghur, Han, Hui, and Kazakh, along with smaller numbers of people of Mongolian, Xibe, Uzbek, Russian, or other ethnicity.

From the 13 to 15th century it was under the control of Chagatai Khanate. Another Mongol empire—the Zunghar Khanate—established around Ili area. In the 19th and early 20th century, the word Kulja (from {{langx|ru|Кульджа}}) or Ghulja was often used in Russia and in the West as the name for the entire Chinese part of the Ili River basin as well as for its two main cities. In fact, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica clarifies the distinction between two similarly named cities of its time:{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Kulja | volume= 15 | pages = 943–944 see page 943 }}

• Kulja (i.e. today's Yining) or more specifically Old Kulja (elsewhere, also called Taranchi Kulja), which was the commercial center of the region.
• Suidun (i.e. Suiding, now called Shuiding) or more specifically New Kulja, Manchu Kulja or Ili (elsewhere, also Chinese Kulja), the Chinese fortress and the regional capital.

Until the 1860s, Huiyuan to the south of Suiding was the regional capital.

The fort of Ningyuan ({{lang|zh-hant|寧遠城}}) was built in 1762 to accommodate new settlers from southern Xinjiang. The forts of Huining ({{lang|zh-hant|惠寧城}}) and Xichun ({{lang|zh-hant|熙春城}}) built later in 1765 and 1780 were also located within the modern Yining City.

The Sino-Russian Treaty of Kulja 1851 opened the area for trade.

In 1864–66, the city suffered severely from fighting during the Dungan Revolt. The city and the rest of the Ili River basin were seized by the Russians in 1871 during Yakub Beg's independent rule of Kashgaria. It was restored to the Chinese under the terms of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881). In 1888, the Ningyuan County was established.

The Geographical Magazine in 1875 by Sir Clements Robert Markham stated:

What little industry Kulja possesses is all due to the Chinese, who transplanted the taste for art, assiduity and skilfulness of their pigtailed race, even to these western outskirts of "the celestial flowery dominion of the Middle." Had the Taranjis and Kalmuks been left to themselves, or had they remained in a preponderating majority, Kulja would not be a bit farther advanced than either Yarkand or Aksu. The principal trades are the following:— founders, manufacturing kettles, plates, and other implements of a very primitive form; paper-makers, whose productions do not seem to be superior to the paper manufactured at the present time after Chinese patterns at Khokand and Samarkand. There are, moreover, some confectionaries in which cakes of all shapes are baked of rice and millet, overlaid with sugar; also maccaroni-makers, the Taranjis being notoriously very fond of dried farinaceous food. In Eastern Turkistan there still exist many similar trades, and although their products are not equal to European articles of the same kind—I mean here the fabrics of the formerly western Chinese provinces— they are still said to be profitable. Finally among the tradesmen we may mention millers, vinegar manufacturers and potters. The number of factories amount to-day at Kulja to 38, wherein over 131 hands are occupied. To this of course other tradespeople have to be added, such as 169 boot-makers, 50 blacksmiths, 48 carpenters, 11 brass-founders, 3 silversmiths, 26 stone-cutters, and 2 tailors.{{cite book|author=Sir Clements Robert Markham|title=The Geographical Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lo7pAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA176|year=1875|publisher=Trübner & Company|pages=176–}}

In 1914, the Ningyuan County was renamed Yining County to avoid confusion with other places in China named Ningyuan.

Ghulja was the site of the November 7, 1944 East Turkistan Revolution and served as capital city of the Second East Turkistan Republic from November 12, 1944 until December 22, 1949.

Yining became a separate city from Yining County in 1952. In 1962, major Sino-Soviet clashes{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} took place along the Ili River.

In 1997, in what came to be known as the Ghulja incident, the city was rocked by two days of demonstrations or riots"Xinjiang to intensify crackdown on separatists", China Daily, 10/25/2001 [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2001-10/25/content_90592.htm] followed by a Chinese Communist Party government crackdown resulting in at least 9 deaths following the execution of 30 Uyghur activists.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RUCOrg2Pb0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/4RUCOrg2Pb0 |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Gulja Massacre|via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}

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| 11 | 26 | 30

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| 17 | 32 | 28

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Yining is located on the northern side of the Ili River in the Dzungarian basin, about {{convert|70|km|abbr=on}} east of the border with Kazakhstan and about {{convert|710|km|abbr=on}} west of Ürümqi. The Ili River valley is far wetter than most of Xinjiang and has rich grazing land.

The City of Yining borders on Huocheng County in the west and the Yining County in the east; across the river in the south is Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County.

Yining has a semiarid climate (Köppen BSk), without the strong variation in seasonal precipitation seen across most of China. Dry and sunny weather dominates year-round. Winters are cold, with a January average of {{convert|-7.6|°C|1}}. Yet the influence of the Dzungarian Alatau to the northwest and Borohoro Mountains to the northeast helps keep the city warmer than more easterly locales on a similar latitude. Summers are hot, with a July average of {{convert|23.9|°C|1}}. Diurnal temperature ranges tend to be large from April to October. The annual mean temperature is {{convert|10.0|°C|1}}. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 51% in December to 77% in September, sunshine is abundant and the city receives 2,914.7 hours of bright sunshine annually. Extremes since 1951 have ranged from {{convert|-40.4|°C|1}} on 29 January 1969 to {{convert|39.3|°C|1}} on 30 July 2024.

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| location = Yining, elevation {{convert|663|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1951–present)

| Jan record high C = 12.5

| Feb record high C = 19.6

| Mar record high C = 28.3

| Apr record high C = 34.4

| May record high C = 36.0

| Jun record high C = 36.5

| Jul record high C = 39.3

| Aug record high C = 38.4

| Sep record high C = 37.3

| Oct record high C = 31.1

| Nov record high C = 25.0

| Dec record high C = 15.1

| year record high C =

| Jan record low C = -40.4

| Feb record low C = -34.7

| Mar record low C = -23.8

| Apr record low C = -8.6

| May record low C = -2.3

| Jun record low C = 3.4

| Jul record low C = 6.9

| Aug record low C = 2.8

| Sep record low C = -2.8

| Oct record low C = -11.7

| Nov record low C = -37.2

| Dec record low C = -37.2

| year record low C =

| Jan high C = -1.1

| Feb high C = 2.2

| Mar high C = 12.0

| Apr high C = 21.1

| May high C = 25.7

| Jun high C = 29.6

| Jul high C = 31.6

| Aug high C = 30.8

| Sep high C = 26.2

| Oct high C = 18.6

| Nov high C = 9.0

| Dec high C = 1.0

| Jan mean C = -7.6

| Feb mean C = -3.8

| Mar mean C = 5.4

| Apr mean C = 13.5

| May mean C = 18.2

| Jun mean C = 22.2

| Jul mean C = 23.9

| Aug mean C = 22.6

| Sep mean C = 17.6

| Oct mean C = 10.0

| Nov mean C = 2.4

| Dec mean C = -4.8

| Jan low C = -13.1

| Feb low C = -8.9

| Mar low C = -0.3

| Apr low C = 6.8

| May low C = 11.2

| Jun low C = 15.4

| Jul low C = 17.0

| Aug low C = 15.4

| Sep low C = 10.1

| Oct low C = 3.5

| Nov low C = -2.2

| Dec low C = -9.4

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| Jan precipitation mm = 21.4

| Feb precipitation mm = 21.4

| Mar precipitation mm = 21.1

| Apr precipitation mm = 32.6

| May precipitation mm = 29.8

| Jun precipitation mm = 28.1

| Jul precipitation mm = 28.4

| Aug precipitation mm = 19.2

| Sep precipitation mm = 15.1

| Oct precipitation mm = 24.7

| Nov precipitation mm = 37.1

| Dec precipitation mm = 27.7

| Jan humidity = 77

| Feb humidity = 75

| Mar humidity = 64

| Apr humidity = 53

| May humidity = 52

| Jun humidity = 54

| Jul humidity = 53

| Aug humidity = 54

| Sep humidity = 56

| Oct humidity = 66

| Nov humidity = 74

| Dec humidity = 78

| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

| Jan precipitation days = 8.5

| Feb precipitation days = 7.6

| Mar precipitation days = 6.9

| Apr precipitation days = 7.9

| May precipitation days = 8.0

| Jun precipitation days = 8.5

| Jul precipitation days = 7.9

| Aug precipitation days = 6.1

| Sep precipitation days = 4.8

| Oct precipitation days = 5.6

| Nov precipitation days = 8.0

| Dec precipitation days = 8.9

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| Jan sun = 156.1

| Feb sun = 165.3

| Mar sun = 227.9

| Apr sun = 261.2

| May sun = 313.2

| Jun sun = 317.6

| Jul sun = 338.5

| Aug sun = 324.0

| Sep sun = 282.8

| Oct sun = 235.5

| Nov sun = 153.6

| Dec sun = 139.0

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| Jan percentsun = 53

| Feb percentsun = 55

| Mar percentsun = 61

| Apr percentsun = 64

| May percentsun = 68

| Jun percentsun = 69

| Jul percentsun = 73

| Aug percentsun = 76

| Sep percentsun = 77

| Oct percentsun = 71

| Nov percentsun = 54

| Dec percentsun = 51

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| Jan snow days = 10.7

| Feb snow days = 9.4

| Mar snow days = 4.1

| Apr snow days = 1.0

| May snow days = 0.1

| Jun snow days = 0

| Jul snow days = 0

| Aug snow days = 0

| Sep snow days = 0

| Oct snow days = 0.8

| Nov snow days = 4.9

| Dec snow days = 10.7

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The administrative divisions of Yining include eight subdistricts, 4 towns, and 5 townships:{{Cite web|url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2022/65/40/654002.html|title=2022年统计用区划代码|website=www.stats.gov.cn}}

The city's nominal GDP was approximately 20.9 billion RMB (US$3.1 billion) as of 2015 with an annual increase of 7.6%.The nominal GDP per capita was approximately 38,805 RMB (US$5976).{{cite news |url=http://zsyz.sei.gov.cn/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=263642 |title=Bulletin for the economy and society development in 2015 |access-date=May 6, 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Yining is the chief city and the agricultural and commercial center of the Ili valley. It is an old commercial center trading in tea and cattle and it is still an agricultural area with extensive livestock raising. It has fruit orchards. Iron, coal and uranium are mined nearby.

• Regular bus service is available to other cities in the region and taxis are available locally.
• Ili Yining International Airport is located several kilometers north of the city.
• The Jinghe-Yining-Horgos Railway, an electrified railway from Ürümqi to Yining to Khorgos on the China-Kazakhstan border was finished in the late 2009.[http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6760790.html Xingjiang’s first electrified railway rails laid] 2009-09-17 Daily passenger service – an overnight Ürümqi-Yining train service began on July 1, 2010.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120229121345/http://www.aboutxinjiang.com/Photo_galley/content/2010-06/22/content_5054262.htm Tickets of train from Urumqi to Yining put on sale]}} (2010-06-22)[http://en.chinaxinjiang.cn/01/01/201007/t20100707_36384.htm Xinjiang's first electrified railway passenger train] (2010-07-07)
• China National Highway 218
• China National Highway 312

As of 2014, Yining had a population of 559,700. The city is inhabited by 38 ethnic groups, including 269,700 Uyghur

people, 204,000 Han people, 26,200 Kazakhs and 39,600 Hui people, accounting for 48.19%, 36.45%, 4.68% and 7.08% of gross population respectively.{{cite report|title= World Bank-financed Xinjiang Yining Urban Transport and Environment Project: Ethnic Minority Development Plan |chapter=Overview of Ethnic Minorities in the Project Area|page=6 |author= |publisher=Yining Municipal Government (YMG) |date=May 2017|url=https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/417611494919273782/pdf/SFG3355-IPP-P159253-Box402909B-PUBLIC-Disclosed-5-14-2017.pdf}}

Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture Museum, opened in Yining in 2004, is one of Xinjiang's most important museums, housing artifacts from throughout the prefecture. In fact, at the time it opened it became, in the words of a Western scholar, the "only modern museum" in Xinjiang. (Xinjiang of course also has the provincial museum in Ürümqi; but at that time point, its old building had been demolished while its replacement was still under construction.)[http://www.chinaheritagequarterly.org/features.php?searchterm=003_twomuseums.inc&issue=003 A TALE OF TWO CITIES: NEW MUSEUMS FOR YINING AND URUMQI]. CHINA HERITAGE NEWSLETTER, No. 3, September 2005

Batul Mosque (for Uyghur people), Tatar Mosque (for Tatar people) and Shaanxi Grand Mosque (for Hui people) are considered the three main mosques in Ili.[http://www.mzb.com.cn/html/Home/report/14018161-1.htm 艾尼瓦·海浪巴依，伊宁市拜图拉清真寺，中国民族宗教网，2014-02-03] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402181939/http://www.mzb.com.cn/html/Home/report/14018161-1.htm|date=2015-04-02}}

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