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The representative took the hint, and decided after consulting the masses to approach the Aksu Prefecture Administrative Office. When they arrived for negotiations, the office made an emergency call to the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Party Committee in Urumqi, which telegraphed back that the problem should be dealt with on the spot.
1946, Chandra Chakraberty, The Cultural History of the Hindus, Calcutta: Vijaya Krishna Brothers, page 267:
The Hans strove to capture the important trade route with the west through Hami, Aksu, Kashgar, Turfan and Khotan.
1981 April 26, “Youths resist Communist pressure”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 16, Taipei, page 1:
A report from the China mainland indicated that scores of demonstrating youths were killed last November in Aksu in the western province of Sinkiang, after 70,000 of them rusticated from Shanghai staged a demonstration. They took over the office building of the "agriculture bureau" and demanded that the Peiping regime allow them to return to Shanghai. Communist "vice premier" Wang Chen was forced to hurry to Aksu from Peiping and instructed troops to suppress the youths by any means, even if it meant bloodshed.
From here the Silk Road bifurcates. In times of unrest, the caravans would move south through the sparse towns along the foot of the Kunlum Mountains, protected from robbers by the Taklimakan desert. But more often they would brave the great northern route with its line of rich oases - Turfan, Korla, Kuqa, Aksu - and hope to evade marauders from the grasslands just to the north.
^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Aksu or Aqsu”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 29, column 1
