Can You Provide Me A Short Note About The City Of Urumchi?

Urumchi or Wu-lu-mu-Ch'I is the capital of Xinjiang. It is an autonomous region of northeastern China. The city is located along the northern side of the Tien Shan.

In the 7th-8th centuries the territory first came under Chinese power. It was an important point for caravan's route to Turkistan. The Uighurs had taken the control of the region from the time of 750. They controlled the city of Urumchi until the 18th century. In the 18th century the Chinese rule had reoccupied the city.

The city of Urumchi was under Muslims control from the year of 1864 to the year of 1876. The Xinjiang province was founded in the year of 1884 and the capital was established in the Urumchi.

Now-a-days Urumchi is the center of trade in aspect of Central Asia. This is also the greatest city of Central Asia.

Urumchi is a coal-mining and petroleum producing area. Iron, steel, agricultural machineries and chemicals are the main manufactures of the city.

According to the cencus report of the year of 1999, the population was estimated around 1,258,457.