Qiemo County

Qiemo County (Chinese: 且末县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Qarqan County[4][5] (Uyghur: چەرچەن ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 恰尔羌县), is a county under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south. Its area is 138,645 square kilometers (53,531 sq mi) and, according to the 2002 census, it has a population of 60,000. The county seat is at Qiemo Town.

"Qiemo" redirects here. For other uses, see Qiemo (disambiguation).
Qiemo County

چەرچەن ناھىيىسى
且末县

Qarqan, Charchan, Chiehmo, Chü-mo, Jumo
County
Main entrance of a bazaar in the county seat of Qiemo
Location of Qiemo County (pink) in Bayingolin Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang
Qiemo
Location of the county seat in Xinjiang
Coordinates (Qiemo County government): 38°08′46″N 85°31′48″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionXinjiang
Autonomous prefectureBayingolin
Area
 • Total138,680 km2 (53,540 sq mi)
Population
 (2010)[1]
 • Total65,572
 • Density0.47/km2 (1.2/sq mi)
Ethnic groups
 • Major ethnic groupsUyghur, Han Chinese[2]
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
841900
Websitewww.xjqmx.gov.cn (in Chinese)
Qiemo County
Uyghur name
Uyghurقاغىلىق ناھىيىسى
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese且末县
Traditional Chinese且末縣
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese恰尔羌县
Traditional Chinese恰爾羌縣

Name

"Qiemo (W-G: Ch'ieh-mo) 且末 = modern Cherchen or Charchan (Uyghur: Qarqan). There has been uncertainty about this name as Chavannes (1907), p. 156, and then Stein (1921a), Vol. I, 296 ff., gave an incorrect romanization for the first character. Chavannes, using the French EFEO romanization system, gave tsiu, and Stein used the Wade-Giles equivalent, chü. In fact, the character is correctly rendered k’ie in EFEO, ch’ieh in Wade-Giles and qie in pinyin. Nevertheless, there has never been any serious dispute about its identification with modern Cherchen."[6]

It has been suggested that the name "Cherchen" may have been derived from Shanshan, the kingdom that once ruled the area.[7] A number of different names have been used for the town, Lionel Giles has recorded the following names for Ruoqiang Town (with his Wade-Giles forms of the Chinese names converted to pinyin):

Jumo Han
Zuomo (左末) Song Yun
Jumo Jun [Sui]
Zhemotuona (折摩馱那) Xuanzang
Boxian Zhen (播仙鎭) [Tang, after A.D. 674]
Jurjān [Mīrzā Haidar, sixteenth century]
Charchan [modern name][8]

It was called Calmadana in Kharoshthi documents found in the region.

History
The Tarim Basin in the 3rd century CE, showing the Indo-European oasis kingdoms of Kašgar (Kashgar) [violet], Kotan/Hutan [green], Krążania (Krořän/Loulan/Shanshan) [pink], Kuša (Kucha/Ququa) [orange], Ārśi (Agni/Yanqui/Karaxahr) [olive] and Yarkoto/Guśi (Jushi/Turfan) [blue]. Ziemo (Quiemo) lies in the western part of Krořän/Loulan bordering Zhangzhung (Tibet) to the south, and which was since the 1st century CE known under its Chinese name Shanshan.

Several mummies were found in Cherchen including the Cherchen Man.

The modern county is based on the ancient kingdom of Qiemo (且末) mentioned in the Hanshu and the Hou Hanshu. According to the Hanshu, Qiemo/Cherchen had "230 households, 1,610 individuals and 320 persons able to bear arms."[9]

The ancient Qiemo may have been located on the east of the Cherchen (Charchan) river, across from the modern Cherchen.[10] Qiemo became part of Loulan Kingdom after it was under Chinese control during the Han dynasty and renamed Shanshan.[11] Later in 442 CE, after an attack by Juqu Anzhou, King Bilong of Shanshan fled to Qiemo together with half of his countrymen so Shanshan came to be ruled by Qiemo.[12]

The Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang passed through this region in 644 on his return from India to China, visited a town called Nafubo (納縛波, thought to be Charklik) of Krořän (Loulan), and wrote of Ziemo (Qiemo), "A fortress exists, but not a trace of man".[13]

Marco Polo who passed through Cherchen mentioned it as a province with a town of the same name as its chief city. Its inhabitants were described as Muslims.[14]

Geography
A view from the space of an alluvial fan in the foothills of the Altyn-Tagh in the western part of the county (37°26′55″N 84°16′53″E)

From the south to the north, the lands of the county run from the main range of the Kunlun Mountains (which forms the border with the Tibet Autonomous Region) to the middle of the Taklamakan Desert. The southernmost area of the county includes the northern side of part of the Ulugh Muztagh range (the main range of the Kunlun), and a section of the Altyn-Tagh range which runs roughly parallel to the main range of the Kunlun. Most of the county population lives in the northern foothills of the mountains, in the oases watered by snow-fed rivers.

The Qiemo River (Qarqan River) near the town of Ziemo (Qiemo) is frozen for two to three months in the winter. From the foot of the mountains to the oasis of Ziemo (Qiemo), it has a faIl of nearly 4000 feet.

Climate
Climate data for Qiemo (1971−2000)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) −0.5
(31.1)		 5.3
(41.5)		 14.0
(57.2)		 23.0
(73.4)		 28.0
(82.4)		 31.1
(88.0)		 32.8
(91.0)		 32.2
(90.0)		 27.4
(81.3)		 19.6
(67.3)		 9.8
(49.6)		 1.3
(34.3)		 18.7
(65.6)
Average low °C (°F) −13.8
(7.2)		 −9.3
(15.3)		 −1.7
(28.9)		 6.3
(43.3)		 11.7
(53.1)		 15.4
(59.7)		 17.4
(63.3)		 15.5
(59.9)		 9.6
(49.3)		 1.5
(34.7)		 −5.2
(22.6)		 −11.6
(11.1)		 3.0
(37.4)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 0.5
(0.02)		 0.4
(0.02)		 0.7
(0.03)		 1.1
(0.04)		 1.7
(0.07)		 7.1
(0.28)		 7.3
(0.29)		 4.2
(0.17)		 0.7
(0.03)		 0.1
(0.00)		 0.0
(0.0)		 0.4
(0.02)		 24.2
(0.97)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 1.1 0.7 0.3 0.5 1.0 2.9 3.5 1.8 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.8 13.4
Source: Weather China

Administrative divisions
Map of Qiemo (labeled as Ch'ieh-mo) and surrounding area (1975)
Map including Qiemo (labeled as QIEMO (CH'IEH-MO)) and surrounding region (DMA, 1980)[lower-alpha 1]

Qiemo County includes five towns, eight townships and other areas:[15][16][1]

Towns (镇)

Townships (乡)

County Autonomous Regions (县辖区)

  • Aqiang District (阿羌区)

Others

  • 农二师且末工程支队

Economy

The economy of the county is primarily based on agriculture and animal husbandry. Agricultural products of the county include wheat, corn, cotton and rapeseed. Lynx and fox hunting in the county produces valuable animal skins. Mining in the county includes coal, jade and asbestos. Industries in the county include mining, leather making, and grain and oil processing.[3]

Demographics

As of 2015, 50,754 of the 69,464 residents of the county were Uyghur, 18,365 were Han Chinese and 345 were from other ethnic groups.[19]

As of 1999, 77.5% of the population of Qarqan (Qiemo) County was Uyghur and 22.31% of the population was Han Chinese.[20]

Transportation

Notable persons

Notes
  1. From map: "The representation of international boundaries is not necessarily authoritative."

References
  1. 且末县历史沿革 [Ruoqiang County Historical Development] (in Chinese). XZQH.org. 30 January 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2019. 2003年，且末县总面积138680平方千米，{...}2010年第六次人口普查，且末县常住总人口65572人，其中：且末镇18893人，阿热勒乡2304人，琼库勒乡5455人，托格拉克勒克乡8011人，巴格艾日克乡4235人，英吾斯塘乡6233人，阿克提坎墩乡4081人，阔什萨特玛乡2982人，塔提让乡4226人，阿羌乡2064人，库拉木勒克乡2008人，奥依亚依拉克乡1853人，兵团农二师且末工程支队1715人，兵团三十八团1512人。 2013年1月9日，自治区政府（新政函[2013]8号）批复同意撤销奥依亚依拉克乡，设立奥依亚依拉克镇。2014年10月20日，自治区政府（新政函[2014]178号）批复同意撤销塔提让乡，设立塔提让镇，并将县直辖的26848平方公里划归塔提让镇管辖。调整后，全县辖3个镇、9个乡：且末镇、奥依亚依拉克镇、塔提让镇、阿热勒乡、琼库勒乡、托格拉克勒克乡、巴格艾日克乡、英吾斯塘乡、阿克提坎墩乡、阔什萨特玛乡、阿羌乡、库拉木勒克乡。
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  12. Weishu Original text: 真君三年，鄯善王比龍避沮渠安周之難，率國人之半奔且末，後役屬鄯善。 Translation: In the third year of Zhenjun, the Loulan king Bilong, so as to avoid troubles from Juqu Anzhou, led half his countrymen and fled to Qiemo, which later controlled Shanshan.
  13. Da Tang Xiyu Ji Original text: 从此东行六百余里至折摩驮那故国。即涅末地也。城郭岿然人烟断绝。复此东北行千余里至纳缚波故国。即楼兰地也。
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