today's topic xin jiang

my dear vivi, today, i am gonna introduce you Xin Jiang, located in the extreme west of china. breathtaking landscape and totally different minorities different from han people. the size of uygur is about the same as tibet. huge i have to say. wulumuqi is the capital of xin jiang. literally, xin jiang means new territory in chinese. it was under control of chinese from 16th century i think in qing dynastry. don't you think we are invading another country. qing is not han people. they used to be more ambitious at their prime time in the history. prior to 16th century, it was once the route of silk road, there was an abandoned old city called lou lan which was so prosperous and was a concrete envidence of silkroad from which civilization went back and forth between west and east. now i am gonna link an url to show you around this beautiful land
http://www.tintcn.com/destination/show/index_pic.asp?PID=40