Distinctive Small Towns
2 min readSmall towns in Xinjiang have their own unique geographical characteristics, national characteristics and cultural characteristics, showing the clear and lively town images, and exuding distinguishing charm and style.
Shihezi, the oasis in the desert Shihezi is a city only one year younger than the Republic of China.
Everyone who first set foot in Shihezi will be surprised by large tracts of green jumping into his sight. It will even cast an instant trance that makes one doubt that he is in the moist and warm regions south of the Yangtze River.
At the beginning of the construction, through three generations of reclamation, people created a wonder of the world of pushing back the desert by labor power under extremely harsh natural conditions, reclaiming the largest oasis in western China. This city of miracle produced the first cube sugar, the first cotton yarn, and the first wool top 30 Street view of Shihezi City Ai Ching, the famous poet, has lived and worked in Shihezi for 16 years. He wrote such a poem for Shihezi “all plants and trees here are bonded by blood and sweat…”
The old generation who carried out the reclamation carefully planted every tree with the faith of “Rather let three mu of fields dry, do not let a tree die of thirst”, and the urban construction was also carried out in accordance with the thinking of “build roads after planting trees, set the roads and planning by trees”. The desolate wasteland was finally scattered with green, first in line, and then in piece. The aspen, diversiform-leaved poplar, ulmus pumila, elaeagnus angustifolia, and other trees formed rows of well-arranged ecological barriers with different functions and the dry desert was finally turned into warm and moist oasis.
