Atlas of China
Shihezi 石河子Shíhézǐ
A tree-lined grid city laid out by army farmers in the 1950s
- Type
- County-level Cityadministered directly by Xinjiang
- Region
- Xinjiang
- Listed sites
- 11 national heritage
About Shihezi
Shihezi, named after a stony-bottomed stream, was built from the early 1950s by soldiers of the army's 22nd Corps who stayed on to farm, and it remains the seat of the 8th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (Bingtuan). The planned city of broad, tree-lined avenues won a UN-Habitat award in 2000 for improving its living environment. Its first buildings, among them the corps headquarters that now houses the Bingtuan Military Reclamation Museum, are protected as national heritage.
Listed sites in Shihezi
1 site in Shihezi is on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Shihezi Military Reclamation Sites 石河子军垦旧址 National heritage site · on the map
Three early buildings of Shihezi, the city founded in the early 1950s by the army's 22nd Corps: the Soviet-style corps headquarters of 1952, known as the 'first building of the reclamation army' and now the Xinjiang Bingtuan Military Reclamation Museum; the 1952 assembly hall, later the People's Cinema; and the 1951 single-storey office and residence of the commanders Tao Zhiyue and Zhang Zhonghan.
On the map
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