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The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.
Farther west was the ancient State of Jingjue, while the ruins of the city of Akispil, discovered in the desert northwest of Lop County, was one of the cities of the ancient State of Yutian.
2000, J.P. Mallory, Victor H. Mair, The Tarim Mummies Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155:
East of Khotan itself, we find a local culture typified by a cemetery at Sampul (Shanpula). It is located near the administrative centre of Lop County (Luopu).
2004, “THE INTERNET IN CHINA: ATOOL FOR FREEDOM OR SUPPRESSION?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Committee on International Relations, page 187:
The Lop county official confirmed reports from overseas groups that the Chinese authorities were continuing a program of heavy religious control and censorship in Xinjiang.
2017 November 5, “Across China: Elderly Uygur tailor finds new hope in factory work”, in Mengjie, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 17 December 2019:
The workshop in Lop County at the edge of Taklimakan Desert is in the most impoverished part of Hotan prefecture.
2019 April 26, Paul Eckert, Shohret Hoshur, “Uyghur Inmates in Iconic Xinjiang Detention Camp Photo Identified”, in Alim Seytoff, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 28 April 2019:
An acquaintance of Eli Ahun Qarim described the 50-something native of Lop county’s Igerchi village as a religious student with “a profound understanding of religion” who had earlier been detained for one year for teaching religion.
2019 December 29, Stephen Chen, “China’s scientists aren’t shy about promoting their work any more”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 29 December 2019, Science:
Miriding Mutailipu is a crystal scientist from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Raised in Lop county, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Hotan prefecture, he grew up in a part of China known for thousands of years as a source of precious stones.
2020 September 15, David Lawder, Humeyra Pamuk, Dominique Patton, Cate Cadell, “U.S. readies bans on cotton, tomato imports from China's Xinjiang”, in Michael Perry, Clarence Fernandez, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 September 2020, APAC:
They would also block imports of items from the Lop County Industrial Park and the Lop County No. 4 Vocational Skills Education and Training Center, following the July 1 detention of products from Lop County Meixin Hair Product Co..
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2015 May 13, Roseanne Gerin, Shohret Hoshur, “Six Dead, Four Injured in Two Successive Suicide Attacks in China’s Xinjiang”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 18 May 2015:
The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and three police officers and wounding four other policemen, said Osman Toxtixelil, the police chief of the Konabazar (Old Town) police station in Lop town. No bystanders were killed or injured in the attacks, he told RFA’s Uyghur Service.
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