Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- On Feb. 23, Xinhua Daily Telegraph published a report entitled "Silk Road Tuncheng Goes Over the Past and Present."
In the vast desert and Gobi in the southwest of Xinjiang and the northwest edge of the Tarim Basin, a city with a road network extending in all directions, buildings rising from the ground and green trees has emerged. And about ten kilometers north of the city center, is a history can be traced back to the Han Dynasty or even earlier ancient city ruins, the city wall is majestic by the mountain, the beacon tower stands on the top of the mountain, the Buddha shrine is carved on the cliff ......
Both the new city and the ancient city are part of the city of Tumshuk, the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. The thousand-year-old context of Tumshuk is hidden in the historical clues of the Silk Road Tuncheng, and runs through the pace of modernization of the Oasis New Town.
Tumshuk was one of the first areas in Xinjiang to start reclamation. In the area, not only ancient river channels, aqueducts and other relics have been discovered, but also ancient wheat, fruit pits and other remains have been excavated. Since ancient times, the Central Plains and Xinjiang have been very closely intertwined with agricultural products, production tools, and agricultural technology.
Tumshuk was the choke point on the ancient Silk Road. It is bordered by Qiuzi in the east, Shule in the west, Khotan in the south, and Shache in the southwest, and is located in the center of Kashgar, Hotan and Aksu in southern Xinjiang. Relics such as the five-baht coin of the Han Dynasty, the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty, the Qiuzi big coin, and the Sogdian documents seem to tell the prosperous commercial and trade past of the ancient Silk Road.
Tumshuk is also a place where cultural exchanges between the East and the West collide and merge. Some of the statues unearthed here have rounded and full faces, similar to the aesthetics of the Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty, and in terms of hair bun modeling and sculpture techniques, they are influenced by Gandhara Buddhist art with both Indian and Greek styles......
The Silk Road has been going on for more than a thousand years, and the story of Tumshuk is still continuing. From the old army reclamation who forged swords into plowshares when the People's Republic of China was founded, to the Corps people who are now rooted in the northwest edge of the Taklamakan Desert, they have sown the seeds of hope, so that the wasteland alkali beach has emerged as an oasis of cultivated land, so that the road network can connect the surrounding towns of the Taklamakan Desert, and inject impetus into the development of the industry with resources and cultural endowments.
Millennial Tuncheng. If the reclamation is prosperous, the frontier will be prosperous, and if the reclamation is abandoned, the frontier will be chaotic.
In 60 B.C., the Western Han Dynasty set up the Western Regions Protectorate as a military and political institution to manage the Western Regions, and Tuntian Jigu to deal with border affairs. "Hanshu Western Regions Biography" recorded: "So he migrated to Tuntian, and the field was in Beixu. ”
Li Kai, who was the deputy director of the Kashgar Prefecture Cultural Relics Protection Administration, has been engaged in cultural and cultural relics protection work in Xinjiang for nearly 50 years. In the desert area, the group of reclamation sites extends from southwest to northeast along the ancient river channel, and there are traces of ancient fields, irrigation systems, and small settlements among the sand dunes. Pottery shards, pottery and even pottery kilns have been found in many sites. Combined with satellite images, the ruins in the reclamation area are clearer.
Li Kai believes that this ancient reclamation area is the Beixu Reclamation Area in the western part of the Western Han Dynasty.
Tumshuk means "the place where the eagle's face protrudes", and the ruins of the ancient city north of the urban area are large-scale, with a scope of more than 700,000 square meters initially surveyed and mapped by archaeological experts, including a small city, an inner city, an outer city, and a large outer city. The ancient city is built on the rugged and steep Tumshuk Mountain, whose peaks resemble an eagle's beak. There are beacons on the top of the mountain, there are city walls on the hillside, there are earthen beams at the bottom of the mountain, and there are relics such as ancient river channels and ridges around the mountain.
This is the site of Tokuzisalai, which means "Nine Palaces". The site is also known as the site of the Tang Dynasty, and the "Xinjiang Atlas and Historical Monuments" records: "Tumshuk Nine Taipei Mountain, the herdsman dug up the Kaiyuan money in the soil, because of the Tang Dynasty City." ”
The photo shows the ruins of Tang Wangcheng taken on September 20, 2020. (Photo by Wang Junlong) In 2021, Duan Qing, a historical linguist from the Western Regions, determined that the site was the "According to Shide City" recorded in the "New Tang Dynasty Book" by studying two documents unearthed in the area of the Tang Dynasty Wangcheng site.
According to Shide, it is also known as Grip Seid, Yutou Prefecture. According to the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty general Gao Xianzhi once set out from Qiuzi (now Kuqa, Xinjiang), the capital of Anxi, and crossed the Pamir Plateau to quell the rebellion through "Shused".
Xie Jiagui, director of the Tang Wangcheng Institute of History and Culture, said: "The fact that the name 'Grip Sede' has been preserved in the history books is enough to prove its important position in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty. ”
Historians Qing Zhaorong and Rong Xinjiang have conducted research on documents unearthed in the area of the Tokuzi Salai site, and according to one of their articles, local farmers provided support for the Tang Dynasty's governance of the Western Regions by paying taxes and grains.
In the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was gradually abandoned and faded out of the historical stage. Li Zongqian, director of the Xinjiang Tunken History Museum, said: "Tang Wangcheng is located in the lower reaches of the Yarkand River, and the natural conditions have deteriorated, the river has been cut off, or it is no longer suitable for people to cultivate and live. ”
In the Qing Dynasty, Lin Zexu once surveyed land in southern Xinjiang. According to his "Otomi Diary", in 1845, when Lin Zexu came to Tumshuk and its surroundings, he encountered strong winds, "the yellow dust was blurred, and there were almost no people". Walking along the banks of the Yarkand River, he was faced with the situation of "withered reeds are still higher than people, and wild animals are infested along the way", "flying mosquitoes and fleas are abnormal".
Although the glory of Tang Wangcheng had been lost in the wind and sand of history at that time, Lin Zexu still suggested about the tuntian in this area: "If the canal is diverted, the government is greatly revitalized, and the people who cultivate it are the border guards, then the defense troops can be reduced, and the province will be supported and the border defense will be consolidated." He hoped that "thousands of ridges would be embroidered".
After Xinjiang was established as a province in 1884, Liu Jintang served as the first governor of Xinjiang in Gansu, and sent people to recruit farmers, settle retired soldiers, and distribute seeds and cattle to restore the tuntian fields in southern Xinjiang.
In 1949, Xinjiang was peacefully liberated, and the soldiers took off their uniforms to start a new round of reclamation and garrisoning.
Xinjiang Tunken History Museum is located in Tumshuke City, an exhibition ** records the early morning in the spring of 1950, the soldiers ploughed for the first time in today's Tumshuk Caohu Town: the person in front of the shoulder with a rope, bowed his head and waist, pulled an ancient wooden plough to open up the wasteland, and the person who supported the plough in the back took off his cotton clothes and pulled up his cotton pants, and there were even two holes in the back of the cotton pants.
In the spring of 1950, the soldiers ploughed for the first time in the town of Caohu in the present-day city of Tumshuk. In order to speed up the development of the border areas, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps was established in 1954. With their youth and sweat, the military reclamation workers leveled the land, opened canals to divert water, built houses, built roads, and planted trees, so that the agricultural reclamation regiments sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in the uninhabited wasteland of Tumshuk and its surroundings.
This is a big desert called 'you can't get in and out', and you can only hear the wind at night, and only the clouds can be seen during the day. In 1963, the poet Guo Xiaochuan described the harsh natural conditions of the Taklamakan Desert when he was collecting wind in present-day Tumshuk Yongxing Town and other places.
I followed my father to this faraway place, which was full of desert and scarce supplies. Chen Ming, a resident of Tumshuk, described the scene as follows. However, a group of people rely on a few rudimentary tools to cultivate, and they do it for a lifetime. ”
The XPCC personnel engaged in construction under difficult conditions, sleeping on the ground, drinking salt-alkali water, cutting down on food and clothing, and starting from scratch. The poet Wu Kai wrote: "With a few shiny beads of sweat, I poured a lot of cotton and grain from the Gobi!" ”
Silk Road city. The envoys looked at each other, and the business trips were endless.
Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty set out from Chang'an to "hollow out" the Western Regions and opened up the world-famous Silk Road. What role does Tumshuk play in the Silk Road exchange?
Lin Meicun, a professor at the School of Archaeology and Museums of Peking University, gave his opinion: The site of Tokuzi Salai is Panyu City.
Compared with Panqi City, the idiom "throwing pen from Rong" and the Western Regions are more well-known. Ban Chao has been in the Western Regions for more than 30 years, of which 17 years are based in Panqi City.
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Biography of Banliang Lie" recorded: "Qiuzi and Gumo sent troops to attack Shule. Super guard the city, and loyalty is the head and tail. ”
It is speculated from the "head and tail" that the Panlu City defended by Banchao was between Gumo (present-day Aksu, Xinjiang) on the east side and Shule (present-day Kashgar, Xinjiang) administered by Zhong on the west side, and the geographical location of Tumshuk coincides with the historical records of Panlu City. Lin Mei Village, who is familiar with the Western Regions script, also demonstrated its inference by studying the documents and cultural relics unearthed in Tumshuk and combining them with historical materials.
Lin Meicun once said: "Panyu City should be a fortress that can be defended. The terrain around Tang Wangcheng is dangerous, the land is fertile, the water and grass are abundant, and the city has a unique advantage here. ”
After Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne in 76 AD, Ban Chao, who was stationed in Panqi City, received a recall order, but the princes and people in Shule, Khotan (now Hotan, Xinjiang) and other places struggled to stay. So Ban Chao decided to stay, stabilize the Silk Road, and contact the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty.
Different scholars have different views on the historical origins of the Tokuzisalai site. However, the Han five-baht coins, the molds for casting five-baht coins, and the Chinese wooden tablets unearthed in this area are undoubtedly the traces left by the ancients who shuttled through the Silk Road to Tumshuk, which confirms the "Later Han Book: The Legend of the Western Regions" depicts "galloping to the post, endless in time and month; Merchants and merchants, the Japanese money is plugged down".
The Silk Road stretches for thousands of miles, and the exchanges between Gyeonggi and the Western Regions are not a day's work.
From the "Records of the Pavilion and Post Envoys" written by the writer Liu Zongyuan, we can get a glimpse of the post house and the post system in the Tang Dynasty. After the Chinese and foreigners who come and go "confer the museum", that is, after checking into the museum, the staff will "read the number" and "book the object", that is, count the number of people and take inventory.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were also "hotels" in the Tumshuk area.
In the 80s of the 20th century, the state and Xinjiang relevant cultural relics institutions formed an archaeological team and found beacons and castles in the north of the Tokuzi Salai site. The archaeological team combined historical materials such as "Another Sixty Miles to the City of Shide", as well as cultural relics such as ancient coins, ornaments, and pottery shards unearthed locally, and confirmed that this place, which is now known as the site of poor swallowing wood, is the "Confessional Pavilion" in the New Tang Dynasty.
Xie Jiagui believes that the official post house in the Tumshuk area is related to the expansion of the influence and economic development of the Tang Dynasty, and is also affected by the prosperity of the handicraft industry and the development of agriculture here. He said: "Having a post house will allow the envoys and merchants to eliminate the physical and mental fatigue during the journey, and can also provide them with a guarantee for smooth logistics." ”
The Sogdians were an active ethnic group along the Silk Road.
According to the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, after giving birth to a child, the Sogdian would smear honey on the boy's mouth and glue on the palm of his hand, hoping that the child would be able to "speak freely" and "hold money like glue", and the Sogdian man would also go out to do business after the age of 20. According to historians, the Sogdians transported lions, glassware, gold and silver and other treasures to the Central Plains. Silk, spices, and other items produced in China were sold by the Sogdians to the Persians and Indians, and were sold all over the world.
Rong Xinjiang studied the legal documents of the Tang Dynasty unearthed in and around Tumshuk, and compared the documents about the Sogdians unearthed in other parts of Xinjiang, and found that there was consistency in the content of tax payment and guarantee. He speculated that there might have been a Sogdian settlement in the Tumshuk area.
The Silk Road business travel makes "bursts of camel bells" flutter in Tumshuk, which is not only a thousand-year-old past, but also a rising cause at present.
Tangwangcheng Airport is the first civilian airport in southern Xinjiang of the XPCC. Since its opening in December 2018, Tangwangcheng Airport has opened routes to Urumqi, Yining, Aksu and other cities in Xinjiang, and has been connected to Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou, Lanzhou, Chengdu, Guangzhou and other cities outside Xinjiang by direct flights or transfers, and the aviation network has been continuously enriched. In 2023, the passenger throughput of Tangwangcheng Airport will exceed 300,000 passengers.
On December 1, 2023, the Tukun Highway, the fourth highway through the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, was officially opened to traffic, connecting Tumshuk on the northwest edge of the desert and Kunyu City in the south.
There are hundreds of large and small sandbags and sand pits along the highway, among which the highest sand bag is nearly 20 meters high, and the lowest sand pit is 16 meters deep, which is difficult to build. Liang Wenbin, commander of the third division of the Tumshuk key highway engineering project construction headquarters, introduced that highway construction and environmental protection measures go hand in hand, through the laying of wind and sand control grass grids, and the erection of a bridge about 3 kilometers long above a primitive poplar forest, reducing the damage to the surrounding ecological environment.
After the opening of the road, the distance between the two places has been shortened from more than 500 kilometers to about 300 kilometers, and the travel time has been shortened from nearly 6 hours to about 3 hours. Yang Ke, Director of the Construction Management Division of the Tumshuk Transportation Bureau of the Third Division, said: "The completion of the project provides a more convenient, safe and comfortable transportation environment for the people along the route, promotes economic exchanges between the two places, makes the transportation channel of agricultural products smoother, and can promote the development of tourism and other related industries along the route." ”
It is easy for people to reach the world, and the flow of goods is wide.
In November 2023, the Kashgar Area of the China (Xinjiang) Pilot Zone was inaugurated, including the Corps Division of the Kashgar Economic Development Zone within the Third Division. At the unveiling ceremony, the XPCC sub-district signed contracts with 5 enterprises, with a total contract amount of 125.3 billion yuan.
The Third Division of Tumshuk City is the only division city of the Corps that intersects with the Aksu Prefecture, Kashgar Prefecture, Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture and Hotan Prefecture in southern Xinjiang, and is close to five ports approved by the People's Republic of China, including Hongjerab, Irkeshtan, and Kashgar Laining International Airport.
A famous cultural city. The general of Huamen is good at Hu Ge, and the king of Yehe can speak Chinese. ”
The poems of the Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen depict the simultaneous use of Chinese and Chinese languages and the prosperity of culture in Xinjiang at that time.
As a place of diverse cultures, Tumshuk has a rich historical heritage.
From the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the ruins of Tang Wangcheng and its surroundings attracted investigation teams from Britain, France, Germany and other countries. The investigation team excavated and plundered a number of Tumshuk cultural relics, and published the results of their investigation in the form of reports, catalogues, and travelogues.
In 1906, the French explorer Paul Birch led a survey team to excavate in Tumshuk for more than a month, and found fragments of Buddha statues in the Greek sculpture style, and then excavated the ruins of the Tokuzi Salai Buddhist Temple under the cliff on the west side of the ancient city of Tokuzi Salai.
In his notes, Birchhe wrote: "I am now certain that Buddhism existed here, because many fragments of statues can be found everywhere. ”
The artworks and artifacts excavated in Tumshuk include reliefs, statues, murals, pottery, and coins from the Han, Tang and Northern Song dynasties. Today, his discoveries are in the collections of the Musée Guimet in France, among other institutions. After Birch's death, French scholars organized the collation of his research materials and published two Tumshuk studies.
Norihara Shinohara, a Japanese scholar who worked at the School of Ethnology and Sociology of ** Minzu University, conducted research on the floor plan of the Tokuzi Salai Buddhist Temple in the report.
He argues that in the early days when Buddhism was introduced to Xinjiang from the west of the Lingling Mountains (present-day Pamirs), "monks built monasteries according to the traditional pattern of the Gandhara region (parts of present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan)"; Next, Buddhism flourished in Qiuci and other places in the Western Regions, and the monasteries at the site of the Tokuzi Salai Buddhist Temple were influenced by these places, and the murals and monks' rooms were similar; Later, with the development of Buddhism in the Central Plains, the structure of the temple built on the site of the Buddhist temple, the unearthed brick style, the armor image of the statue, etc., showed the Central Plains style.
The Chinese civilization is broad and profound, with a long history, and is formed by the convergence of the excellent cultures of various ethnic groups.
Chinese civilization is the root of the cultures of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang. The activities of the explorers have drawn the world's attention to the ancient culture of Xinjiang and the Silk Road civilization, at a time when the Chinese academic community is awakening. From 1927 to 1930, Huang Wenbi went to Xinjiang with the Sino-Swiss Northwest Scientific Expedition to carry out archaeological work, and his investigation and excavation work laid the foundation for the faltering archaeology of Xinjiang.
During the investigation of Tumshuk, Huang Wenbi excavated cultural relics, documents and recorded written materials, which provided material support for later generations to study Tumshuk.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Yuchun and other experts excavated the ancient city of Tokuzisalai, and many scholars carried out research on Tumshuk. In 2001, the site of Tokuzi Salai was listed as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In the past two years, the Archaeological Research Center of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and Xinjiang professional institutions have carried out two phases of archaeological investigation, exploration and excavation on the site of Tang Wangcheng.
Glass beads with perforated aperture of less than 1 mm, bronze mirrors, pottery Buddha faces, terracotta monkey-shaped Buddha statues, Qianyuan heavy treasures, Qarakhanid coins and ......In May 2023, more than 40 cultural relics were unearthed from the first phase of archaeological excavations at the Tokuzi Salai site, which were exhibited for the first time at the Xinjiang Tunken History Museum. The first phase of archaeological excavation unearthed more than 500 pieces of various cultural relics such as bronze, jade, Buddha statues, pottery, animal bones, etc., and basically clarified the composition of the city site, Buddhist temple site, ancient river and other relics.
Tang Wangcheng is a rare comprehensive site, which provides important information for our social life, religious beliefs and cultural exchanges between the East and the West in the region. Yang Rui, the archaeological leader of the Tokuzi Salai site, said.
The Silk Road is affectionate, and the years are knowing. The literary rhyme of Tang Wangcheng has been precipitated over the years, and it has also imperceptibly nourished ordinary people.
Yan Panning, who grew up in Tumshuk, has been familiar with Tang Wangcheng and other ruins since he was a child. She studied Chinese language and literature at university, and after graduating last year, she chose to work as a docent at the Xinjiang Tunken History Museum, which she credits with deepening her understanding of Tumshuk's rich history.
To understand a place, you must start with the museum, where the Buddha head of the donor, the brightly colored murals and other cultural relics on display are Tumshuk's business card. Yan Panning said, "I hope to tell the story of Tang Wangcheng to more people." ”
The Tang Dynasty clay Buddha head exhibited at the Xinjiang Tunken History Museum. Photo by Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporter Zhao Chenjie The past is used for the present, and the old brings forth the new. Tumshuk not only researches and protects cultural relics, but also excavates the value of the times contained in cultural treasures, and promotes the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture.
Tumshuk and its surroundings are rich in red clay resources, which provide raw materials for making pottery bricks, as evidenced by the pottery relics and pottery kiln ruins unearthed in this area. In 2008, the Uygur molded clay pottery firing technique declared by the XPCC and protected by Tumshuk was listed as the second batch of representative items of national intangible cultural heritage.
In ancient times, clay pots were used to store and purify water, which was a necessity of life, and now it is rejuvenated in the form of intangible cultural heritage. In 2021, the Tumshuk Clay Pottery Museum was opened to the public. In the clay hall experience area, visitors can make teapots, flower pots, vases and other clay pottery products by completing the processes of blanking, shaping, drying, glazing, and firing.
We learned from a master in Yixing, Jiangsu Province to make purple clay pots, and incorporated local elements such as Tang Wangcheng and Populus euphratica into our products. "Post-90s" potter Zhang Guoli said. He graduated from the School of Art and Design of Harbin Institute of Technology, and came to work in the Clay Pottery Museum in 2022, responsible for product development, production, and training for social personnel.
According to reports, in the first 11 months of 2023, the clay pottery museum received nearly 5 tourists50,000 person-times, more than 200 training and research students, and 1 pottery product was madeMore than 30,000 pieces, more than 60% have been sold.
Handicraft may seem simple, but it is actually a skill that has been passed down for thousands of years and requires full attention. Zhang Guoli said. Commenting on his understanding of the job, he said: "We 'knead' ourselves into the soil and 'burn' into the pottery. ”
Oasis New Town. Full of vitality and transformation, the workers are skillful and strive for the new.
Tumshuk is an ancient, thousand-year-old cultural context, and it is still playing the endless Silk Road reclamation song, and continues to write a splendid article on the unity, development, integration and prosperity of all ethnic groups. Tumshuk, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the city, is also young, shining with rapid progress and striding forward on the road to modernization.
In Tumshuk's Splendid Park, small bridges and flowing waters, sparkling lakes, and crisp birdsong in the woods make many citizens stroll, dance, and exercise here. Decades ago, however, there was a lot of wind and sand.
Fairview Park. (Photo by Wang Junlong) Citizen Maihemuti Tusun recalled that in the past, sandstorms hit like a howling wind, covering the sky and the sun, his face was hurt by the sand, and his eyes were blown by the wind and sand.
Because of this, we are willing to plant a variety of trees, which can fight against yellow sand. Together with many cadres and workers of the Third Division, Maihemuti Tuxun opened up wasteland and repaired canals, planted trees, and built roads and bridges, witnessing the "butterfly change" from the Gobi Desert to today's green new city.
On the road of modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, Tumshuk adheres to the concept of "beautiful garden city", realizes the transformation from "sand entering and people retreating" to "green entering and sand retreating", and the green coverage rate of urban built-up areas is about 50%, making it the first national ecological civilization construction demonstration area and national garden city of the XPCC.
The spillover effects of ecological improvement continue to emerge. Yongan Lake is part of the Xiaohaizi Reservoir in the city of Tumshuk of the 3rd Division. At the end of September last year, the 2023 Tumshuk Marathon kicked off in the Yongan Lake Ecotourism Zone, with more than 1,600 runners chasing after me, the reeds on both sides of the track rippling in the wind, and birds soaring in the sky.
The 2023 Tumshuk Marathon began, and the runners rushed out of the starting line. (Photo courtesy of the Rong ** Center of the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) "I have been to many places across the country and participated in more than 70 competitions, and 'Tuma' is unforgettable. It's a beautiful place with lakes, poplar forests, cotton fields, deserts, and running through different scenery all the way, which is really amazing! Zhou Tao, a marathon participant from Nanyang City, Henan Province, said.
Ask for land from the desert, ask for industry from the desert, and ask for benefits from the desert. Autumn 2023 in Tumshuk Hung Yen Town, 160,000 acres of golden oil sha beans welcome a bumper harvest. In 2017, the town introduced this drought-tolerant, salinity-tolerant, soil-improving crop and planted it on leveled sand. Li Yinqiong, director of the Agricultural Development Service Center of Xing'an Town, said that last year, the planting of oil sha beans drove the employment of 900 local workers and brought nearly 2,000 yuan per mu of net income to growers.
In the first three quarters of 2023, the GDP of Tumshuk City of the Third Division increased by 9% year-on-year1%。
In recent years, with the east wind of undertaking labor-intensive industries in the eastern and central regions, the people of Tumshuk have also obtained more adequate employment opportunities.
Eight years ago, Aida (pseudonym), a citizen of Tangyi Town, Tumshuk, accidentally fell from the roof when he was building a house at home, leaving him disabled for life and depressed for a while. Today, she sits in a wheelchair and skillfully uses the socks sewing machine and socks setting machine at home, relying on her hands, with a monthly income of about 3,000 yuan. Aida's employment opportunities at her doorstep are related to this private enterprise called Xinjiang Tangjin Textile.
Zhang Wenmao, the person in charge of Tang Jin, invested in the construction of the Hosiery Industrial Park in Tumshuk City, the Third Division, in 2020, and now employs more than 1,200 permanent employees, and has developed more than 800 "family workshops" through the model of "headquarters + family workshops + farmers", so that some people can get rich and increase their income without leaving home.
In the Xinjiang Tangjin Textile Factory, rows of hosiery looms are running fast. (Photo courtesy of the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) There are more than 7,600 enterprises in Tumshuk City of the Third Division, including more than 6,600 private enterprises. In the first 10 months of 2023, there will be 350 investment projects in Shishi, with a total investment of about 65.7 billion yuan and a physical volume of more than 11.7 billion yuan.
In the process of promoting modernization, Tumshuk emphasized both material and spiritual civilization.
Xinjiang University of Political Science and Law is the first undergraduate university in Tumshuk City, the Third Division. Founded in 2021, the school is exploring the establishment of cooperation with units in Xinjiang, so that students' employment needs and Xinjiang's talent needs for development can "go both ways". Ren Hao, a student from Siping City, Jilin Province, who majored in Chinese language and literature at the university, said: "Xinjiang has broad employment prospects, and I hope to take root here in the future and become a people's teacher." ”
The student's thoughts were similar to those of Xie Jiagui when he was younger. When Xie Jiagui came to Xinjiang from his hometown in Yuanling, Hunan, he was less than 30 years old, and he had farmed in the Third Agricultural Division (the predecessor of the Third Division in Tumshuk City), worked as a reporter, and later served as the chairman of the Third Division's Tumshuk City Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Although he is now over the age of sixteen, he is still engaged in the historical and cultural research and literary and artistic creation of Tang Wangcheng.
Xie Jiagui witnessed and accompanied Tumshuk to "be born" and "grow up", and wrote and recorded the development and changes of the city with pen and ink.
To trace the history of Tumshuk is to understand the ins and outs of the people who lived and lived in this land, and to explore the connection between the development of modern society and the past, and to learn from the past and the present. Xie Jiagui said.