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Qinghai Province is a cold, inhospitable region of poverty, barren plateaus and deserts. Located in the far northwest of China, this huge area, around 720,000 square kilometers, is about one hundred times the size of the Municipality of Shanghai, with only one third of its population. The province is notable for the prison and labour camps that hold some of China's most hardened criminals and political prisoners. Qinghai inmates, on some estimates, number as much as 10% of a total population of about 4.5 million. |
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Xining| The city is literally translated Western Peace, a projection of wish fulfillment by imperial order. It has long been on the fringes of the western Chinese empire, probably established around the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), and it remained an important trading post in the area, mainly for goods to and from Tibet and China. It was by the sixteenth century that the city was set up as both a military garrison and a major trading post upon the Southern Silk Route. ...... |
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| Golmud| Golmud (Geermu) is a new industrial city on a plateau in the mid-west of Qinghai province. Close to the borders of the Gobi Desert, the Kunlun Mountains and the Cai Erhan Salt Lake, the city is a dusty and desolate place. With a population of a mere 140,000 and at 3,000 meters above sea level, the city is also, surprisingly, the largest metropolis in the world, encompassing an area of nearly 49,000 square meters. ...... |
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