Urumqi in a sentence

In November, an apartment fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region in western China, and prompted protests across China, where many blamed the deaths on pandemic restrictions that impeded residents and firefighters.

Peaceful protesters commemorated victims of the Urumqi fire and called for the easing of lockdown measures.

In his memoir, the Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil the way his panicked neighbors dumped religious articles into the sewer in their Urumqi apartment complex in the middle of the night.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are seen near Nanshan scenic spot in Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Saturday, May 11, 2024.

On November 24, 2022, a devastating apartment fire in Urumqi, located in northwest China, claimed the lives of at least 10 individuals.

File photo of a worker in a protective suit measuring the body temperature of a woman at the entrance to a residential compound in Urumqi, Xinjiang region, China.

Kuseni, a Uighur who used to run a tutoring center in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi, began to feel unsafe in China not long after clashes in 2009 between Uighurs and Han Chinese left scores dead and hundreds injured.

Measures ordered in Urumqi, the Xinjiang capital, included isolation of all who had direct contact with those infected and electronic surveillance to uncover anyone else who might have contracted the virus.

Not everyone turns their nose up at plane food - this Urumqi flight attendant was suspended after a video of her eating leftovers went viral.

On Sunday authorities in Urumqi launched a second round of mass testing in an attempt to detect residents who might previously have recorded false negative results, according to the state-run Global Times.

The average temperature in Urumqi on August 8 was said to be around 29 degrees Celsius (84.2 degrees Fahrenheit).

The far west province of Xinjiang, which last week suspended buses and subways in its capital city Urumqi, reported 41 local coronavirus cases.

The restrictions in Xinjiang began in mid-July as dozens of people in Urumqi fell ill with the coronavirus.

Authorities have cracked down especially hard since 2009, when nearly 200 people died in riots in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, which has seen an influx of Han Chinese.

The Khorgos store is an outlet of the couple’s first store in Urumqi, Xinjiang, nine hours’ drive away from Khorgos.

This led to sporadic violence, in 2009 culminating in a riot that killed 200 people, mostly Han Chinese, in the region’s capital Urumqi.

Xia was detained for endangering passenger safety for 10 days in Wuhan, while his wife continued to Urumqi with their daughter.

As an illustration of this, following the 2009 Urumqi riots, there was widespread Han discontent that Wang Lequan, then the Xinjiang Party secretary, had failed to prevent the outbreak of riots.

At the same time, Beijing is equipping the far-western province with state-of-the-art surveillance technology, with cameras illuminating every street all over the region, from the capital Urumqi to the most remote mountain village.

Photo taken on Oct. 9, 2018 shows a night view of Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.