Urumchi
Britishnoun
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The city of Urumchi has expanded from the mud-walled single-story Moslem quarters, where forage is stored on the roofs, to rows of new brick apartment buildings on the dry river beds outside the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Urumchi, the capital of the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region, has grown from 80,000 people in 1949 to 800,000 today, of whom 60% are Han, only 40% the traditional nomadic peoples�Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Mongols.
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A 350-mile flight from Urumchi to the Soviet border discloses the Chinese vulnerability to incursions from the north.
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The scholarly O. Edmund Clubb, for example, had served with distinction in numerous China posts from Hankow to Urumchi; in Peking in 1937 he had rushed between armed groups of Americans and Chinese to straighten out what was about to become a bloody misunderstanding.
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The Chinese rail system goes no farther than Urumchi, Sinkiang's capital, 250 miles from the border.
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