Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure Series. 2026: Xinjiang Province Red Tour. Photos and commentary. The REAL Chinese people you do not know!
Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure Series. 2025: Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Shaanxi Provinces’ Red Tour. Short videos with transcripts, captioned photos, articles and commentary. The REAL Chinese people you don’t know!
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Short intro to Xinjiang by Jeff
Xinjiang is huge, 17% of the country’s landmass, 1.66 million square kilometers (China’s total land area = 9.6 million), which is three times the size of France, or bigger than Alaska in North America. It is mostly desert, mountains, basins and high plateaus, with beautiful lakes. Weather is harsh here. When we arrived on 5 August, the temperature was 41 degrees. In the winter, it can drop to minus twenty.
For our one-month Red Tour adventure in Xinjiang, we will get a far west as Aksu and as far south as Korla. It is already starting out as an amazing lunar cycle.
The Uyghur people in China are members of the Turkic language group, of which there are many derivatives, starting in Turkey, of course, and there’s a swath going from there to the east through South Central Asia. They are, at varying degrees, mutually understood, from 0 to maybe 75%, depending on the dialect. For example, Turkish and Uyghur are 30% mutually comprehensible.
So Uyghurs are, in fact, Turkic people.
Xinjiang’s population is 26 million, 58% Muslim. The capital is Urumuqi. It has four million residents. Hami has 670,000 citizens. Shihezi, Karamay, Korla, Yining and Aksu are other cities we are visiting each have about 500,000 souls.
West to east, Xinjiang has common international borders with Pakistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia. Internally, it borders the provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet, north to south. It is now a hugely important nexus in Asia’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), connecting the rest of China with the rest of Mackinder’s Heartland. On that note,
Jeff J. Brown comments on Sputnik News- Putin: China’s Belt and Road Initiative ‘in Sync With Russia’s Ideas on Large Eurasian Space’. China Rising Radio Sinoland 231027
Not only industry and commerce, Xinjiang is a massive producer of high value crops, including a huge variety of fruits, vegetables and cotton. We see lush, green fields and orchards stretching kilometer after kilometer, thanks to one of the biggest water canal and irrigation systems in the world, starting in the Altai Mountains, over 400km away. The BRI has made it possible to ship large quantities of this produce all over Asia.
Jeff’s comments and Amir’s photos at the end
Here is our last official Red Tour visit, before touring the length of world-celebrated, 560km Duku Highway, that runs through the two Tianshan Mountain Ranges. How dangerous can it be? One hundred ninety-eight Chinese soldiers died to build it and their memorial halfway through was our last unofficial Red visit.
This helps you understand why the Chinese Nation reveres the soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
All I can say for now is that Duku Highway MORE than lives up to its reputation!
The Duku Highway chapter will be included in our 2025-2026 Red Tour photo/video travelogue book, coming out next year. It’s going to be the most unique, informative and fun China book every published. Amir and I know you will LOVE it!
There are 19 photos below of the Yining Museum. There is an ancient history section, as well as sections on China’s Communist Revolution and the area’s modern development.
A really cool children’s activity, as you walk in, is several long tables with many art projects for them to participate in: paintings, sculpture, making hats, dolls, sculptures, calligraphy, etc. This being Communist-Socialist-Confucist-Daoist-Buddhist China, kiddos can create all they want and not be charged one RMB!
Humanity outside communist-socialist countries cannot admit China’s revolutionary history and its unstoppable success as a Communist-Socialist-Confucist-Daoist-Buddhist juggernaut – the world’s richest and most technologically advanced country. Yet, everywhere Amir and I turn, we are surrounded by communist hammers and sickles, red stars, Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Xi Jinping – all committed communist comrades-in-arms against the Satanic, Judeo-capitalist, imperial, piratical, rogue-state West.
If you can’t accept China’s communism-socialism, you will fail miserably to understand 21st century’s ongoing evolution and progress!
Thank God Amir, Evelyne and I live in peaceful, safe, clean, organized – yes, Mao said it: SERVE-THE-PEOPLE China!
Enjoy an informal tour for now. All our articles will be completely redone into chapters and all of the photos and videos fully explained and texts translated. Just a taste until then…
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