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Kunyu 昆玉Kūnyù
Bingtuan farms between the Kunlun and the Taklamakan
- Type
- County-level Cityadministered directly by Xinjiang
- Region
- Xinjiang
- Listed sites
- 21 rated 4A · 1 national heritage
About Kunyu
Kunyu, the city of the 14th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (Bingtuan), is made up of farms scattered through Hotan Prefecture between the Kunlun Mountains and the Taklamakan. Laobing ('veterans') Town of the 47th Regiment was settled by soldiers who crossed the desert to Hotan in December 1949 and stayed to farm, and a memorial hall there tells their story. On the Pishan farm stands the Tuerdi Aji Manor, a house of 1915 listed as national heritage.
Listed sites in Kunyu
2 sites in Kunyu are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Desert Veterans Red Tourism Area (47th Regiment) 沙海老兵红色旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A red-tourism area in the 47th Regiment's town, Laobing ('veterans') Town, on the southern edge of the Taklamakan, built around the Memorial Hall of the PLA's March into Hotan. - Tuerdi Aji Manor 吐尔迪·阿吉庄园 National heritage site · on the map
A manor house dating to 1915, known as the manor of Tuerdi Aji, on what is now the Pishan Farm of the Bingtuan's 14th Division.
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