Makit County

Name

The name of the county is also transliterated from Uyghur as Markit, Mekit and Merket, and from Mandarin Chinese as Maigaiti (Mai-kai-t'i, Maikaiti).

History

In 1928, Makit County was created as part of Kashgar Circuit (喀什噶爾道).

In 2002, 240 Tajik (China) households displaced from Taxkorgan reclaimed a desert village in the county.

In early 2011, a Uyghur butcher in Makit County and six friends were arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a Han Chinese prostitute.

As part of the policies of Chen Quanguo, 61 convenience police stations were being built in the county in 2016.

In August 2018, a 10-year-old boy whose parents were detained in the Xinjiang internment camps drowned in the Zerepshan River.

According to an anonymous Uyghur local government employee quoted in a Radio Free Asia article, during Ramadan 2020 (April 23 to May 23), residents of the county were told they could face punishment for fasting including being sent to an internment camp.

Climate

The number of days of dusty/sandy weather per annum in Makit County has dropped from 106 in 2010 to 40 in 2018. Over the same period, annual rainfall increased from 53.6 mm to 109.6 mm per year.

|Jan record high C = 19.0 |Jan record low C = -25.5 |Feb record high C = 18.7 |Feb record low C = -27.0 |Mar record high C = 30.9 |Mar record low C = -6.2 |Apr record high C = 35.4 |Apr record low C = -1.0 |May record high C = 36.7 |May record low C = 3.6 |Jun record high C = 39.6 |Jun record low C = 7.4 |Jul record high C = 39.3 |Jul record low C = 11.0 |Aug record high C = 40.4 |Aug record low C = 9.3 |Sep record high C = 35.4 |Sep record low C = 3.0 |Oct record high C = 30.3 |Oct record low C = -4.6 |Nov record high C = 25.9 |Nov record low C = -11.9 |Dec record high C = 19.3 |Dec record low C = -21.1

Administrative divisions

The county includes 2 towns and 8 townships.

Economy

The county has a highly developed irrigation system. Agricultural products of the county include cotton, corn, wheat, flax, melons, and sugar beet. The livestock industry is strong. Local specialities include dried apricot and raisins. Industries include coal mining, tractor manufacture, construction, textiles, etc.

Demographics

|2000|201810 |2010|258978 |}}

As of 2015, 225,608 of the 272,010 residents of the county were Uyghur, 45,241 were Han Chinese and 1,161 were from other ethnic groups.

As of 1999, 78.36% of the population of Makit (Markit, Maigaiti) County was Uyghur and 21.43% of the population was Han Chinese.

Transportation

• Sanchakou–Yarkant Expressway

Historical maps

Historical English-language maps including Makit: File:Txu-oclc-6654394-nj-43-5th-ed.jpg|Map including Makit (labeled as MAI-KAI-T'I (MERKET)) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (AMS, 1966) File:NJ-43-8 Shache, China.jpg|Map including Makit (labeled as MARKIT (MAI-KAI-T'I)) (DMA, 1980) File:Operational Navigation Chart G-7, 6th edition.jpg|From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Makit (labeled as Markit (Mai-kai-t'i))(DMA, 1980) File:Txu-pclmaps-oclc-22834566 g-7a.jpg|Map including Makit (labeled as Markit (Mai-kai-t'i)) (DMA, 1984)

Notes

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