shayaxianIntroduction：Introduction to Shaya: Shaya County, Xinjiang, in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, southeast of Aksu Prefecture. It is located in the northern part of the Tarim Basin, at the southern end of the Oasis Plain of the Weigan River, north of the Tianshan Mountains, and south of the desert. The county is 486 kilometers away from the provincial capital of Urumqi, with a highway mileage of 832 kilometers and a highway mileage of 252 kilometers from Aksu City. It is an important passage of the ancient Silk Road and an important part of the ancient Kucha country. Shaya is the transliteration of the Uyghur language "Shayar". Sha, the name of the "tribal chief"; Yal, "sportsman", that is, "the lord caress for his subordinates"; the other says "Shaya" is interpreted as "the royal back garden." Shaya County is bounded by Tianshan in the north and has desert in the south. The administrative department belongs to the Aksu area of ​​Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Shaya County, with a population of 32,000 square kilometers and a population of 260,000 (2012), has 22 ethnic groups including Uygur, Han, Hui, Dongxiang, Zhuang, Mongolian, Russian, and Kazakh, of which Uighurs reach 86%. It is a multi-ethnic county with Uighurs as the main body. Shaya County governs 4 towns and 6 townships, 3 farms and ranches, 1 management committee and 1 autonomous region governing office (ie Shaya prison), 161 village committees, 540 village groups, 54 farmers. Pastoral point. Shaya County is one of the world's four major civilizations. The Central Plains Han culture, Indian Buddhist culture, Persian Arab culture, Greek and Roman culture are here to blend. In 2013, Shaya County completed a gross domestic product (GDP) of 4.44 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.4%.