The Largest Cashmere Manufacturer Of Mongolia Comes To The USA

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — July 30, 2019 — During the Mongolian president’s visit to the United States of America, the largest cashmere manufacturer of Mongolia “Gobi Corporation” is preparing to announce its plans to enter the U.S market by September 2019. The subsidiary Gobi Cashmere USA will be located in Los Angeles, USA and is launching an e-commerce website specially dedicated to the U.S customers.

Gobi Corporation currently supplies high-quality raw cashmere products onto the international market however, its presence on the US market has been niche due to the fierce competition from China. As of now, Gobi Corporation has its franchise stores in Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. If the trade bill is passed, this would allow cashmere companies from the young democratic nation to compete with its competitors.

The increased trade between the United States of America and Mongolia will benefit many stakeholders in the supply chain of cashmere including the consumers, nomads, employees and the economical trade between both countries.

The nomads of Mongolia rely on the sale of their raw cashmere to manufacturers for half of the annual income, which is highly needed for the education of their children and other costs that are incurred during the year. As goats are one of the herds that are valued and herded by the nomads, the raw cashmere that is being provided onto the market will be supplied regardless of the demand by the nomads. Besides, Mongolian traditional nomadic way of coexisting with livestock gives the special feature of differentiation to cashmere sourced from Mongolian land, in terms of traditional heritage, care for the goats and humane way of treatment.

Additionally, Gobi corporation has more than 2800 employees and 80% of them are females. As a part of the company social responsibility, the national giant company Gobi Corporation thrives to be the number one organization that leads others by example by taking good care for the employees well beings, especially for those in need. This is another driver of the company’s expansion to the international market, as the production increase will directly affect the employees’ standard of living.

Mongolia, a landlocked country sandwiched between Russia and China is utilizing its third neighbor policy to its highest potential by expanding its diplomatic relations with countries around the world.

Diplomatic relations between Mongolia and United States of America formally established on the 27th of January 1987 and it has expanded both in economic and political platforms. On the 26th of July 2018, Representative Ted Yoho and nine other members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a trade bill to the U.S. Congress. The trade bill would seek to promote trade between the United States of America and Mongolia by allowing duty-free treatment for certain imports from Mongolia such as cashmere products and textile materials.

In relation to the trade bill, the president of Mongolia Mr. Battulga Khaltmaa is visiting the United States of America on the 31st of July 2019. By the visit, Mongolian president is expressing his full support for the trade bill and appreciation to the sponsors.

The trade act would be helpful to Mongolian economy for various reasons. One of the major examples is the fact that its ability to open more trade opportunities to export cashmere products onto the U.S. Market. Mongolia supplies around 48% of the total raw cashmere to the world market which makes the country the second-largest raw cashmere supplier of the world, yet they utilize only 15% of it to make ready-to-wear finished cashmere garments locally. Remaining 85% of the raw cashmere is sold as a semi-processed material to other markets with less added value, which is becoming the focus area of the Mongolian government and domestic cashmere manufacturers. The United States of America is considered as the second largest cashmere consumer country. This duty-free treatment would open a tremendous opportunity for Mongolia to diversify its economy.

The world heard about Mongolians’ invasion hundreds of years ago from their rich history, but now, they have prepared to invade the world cashmere market with their silky soft pure cashmere products. And now they are coming to your doorsteps America.

Posted July 30, 2019

Source: GOBI Corporation

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Mongolia's Long Road To Mining Wealth

Gulnara Dariiga has been stuck in traffic for two days in the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia. The 38-year-old mother of four eats and sleeps in a heavy-duty North Benz truck, assigned to her by her Chinese employer — a coal buyer across the border.

"I think today we will cross," she says with a grin. She shifts from park to drive, clenching her teeth to fight the stiff steering wheel. Her truck is laden with 90 tons of coal briquettes from Mongolia's Tavan Tolgoi mine, ready for delivery.

This trade road and the immense gridlock of hissing trucks lined up like dominoes, waiting to cross the Mongolia-China border, are an indication of Mongolia's future: The nation is shifting away from an economy based on agriculture and herding to one based on mining. With economic transformation comes opportunity, but also environmental damage and growing pains for local residents, as the landscape is carved up by mining machinery and trucks.

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Kremlin not ruling out Putin’s visit to Mongolia for Khalkhyn Gol victory events

The Mongolian president invited Putin to attend the celebrations on occasion of the 80th anniversary of joint victory in the Battles of Khalkhyn Gol

MOSCOW, July 31. /TASS/. The Kremlin is not ruling out that Russian President Vladimir Putin could pay a visit to Mongolia to attend the events marking the 80th anniversary of victory in the Battles of Khalkhyn Gol.

"This visit is being worked out, the details will be announced later," the Russian president’s press service told TASS.

In May, Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga invited Putin to pay a visit to the country to take part in the celebrations on occasion of the 80th anniversary of joint victory in the Battles of Khalkhyn Gol.

The conflict near the Khalkhyn Gol River on Mongolia’s soil between the Soviet Union and Japan began in 1939. The battle lasted from May until September, resulting in the defeat of the Japanese Sixth Army, which had sought to reach Chita and Baikal and show China that "the Soviet military assistance was unreliable." Later, Moscow and Tokyo signed a ceasefire agreement. Following the Battles of Khalkhyn Gol, Japan refrained from attacking the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

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Mongolia concerned about smoke from Siberian wildfires

The smoke from the wildfires reached the country’s capital of Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday night, according to a senior officer

BEIJING, July 31. /TASS/. Smoke from wildfires in Russia’s Siberia has reached Mongolia, causing concern to the country’s authorities, said Purevjav Soronzonbold, a senior officer at the Mongolian National Emergency Management Agency’s Firefighting Department.

"We have been seriously watching the situation of the severe forest fires in Siberia," he said, as cited by the Xinhua news agency. According to Soronzonbold, smoke from the wildfires came to northern Mongolia on Monday and reached the country’s capital of Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday night.

At the same time, the official pointed out that the fires had not yet spread to Mongolia.

A state of emergency is in effect in Russia’s Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk regions, as well as in two districts of the Buryatia region and one district in Yakutia. On Tuesday, Deputy Emergencies Minister Alexander Chupriyan arrived in the Krasnoyarsk region to control firefighting activities. According to him, a total of three mln hectares of forests are burning in Siberia and the Far East and fires continue to expand. Chupriyan pointed out that active forest fires posed no threat to residential areas and economic facilities though people were suffering from smoke. In this regard, the number of firefighters and emergency workers combating the blazes has been increased.

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A horse for Barron Trump: Mongolian president seeks name for gift steed

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mongolian President Battulga Khaltmaa will visit the White House on Wednesday, seeking help from President Donald Trump on trade and military deals - and possibly a name for the horse his government has symbolically gifted to Trump’s 13-year-old son, Barron.

The vast northern nation locked between Russia and China is known for its ancient breed of tough, tiny horses ridden by Genghis Khan and other warlords - and often gives horses to visiting dignitaries.

The horse is unlikely to make the long trip to the United States, a senior U.S. administration official told reporters, though Mongolian officials are eager that it be given a name. Other U.S. dignitaries to receive a symbolic horse in the past include former Vice President Joe Biden, and former defense secretaries Chuck Hagel and Donald Rumsfeld.

Trump administration officials were eager to highlight the visit of Battulga, a champion wrestler and businessman who leads the democratic nation of only 3 million people, strategically located between two U.S. rivals. It is the first White House visit of a Mongolian president since 2011.

“We sometimes say that Mongolia has only got two physical neighbors - that it’s like a pearl between two oyster shells,” a second U.S. official told reporters.

Mongolia is concerned about its dependence on China, through which most of its goods move, and does not want to be subsumed by Chinese investments in infrastructure, telecommunications and banking, the first U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The nation would like to find more investment from the United States and other countries it considers “third neighbors” for its cashmere, produced by nomadic goat-herders.

Mongolia would also like more trade in weapons and help with its cybersecurity, the U.S. official said.

The country is home to rich deposits of coal, uranium, and rare earth minerals used in weapons, consumer electronics and other goods, but suffers from a lack of transportation options.

A rail link north to the Trans Siberian Railway could be one option, the U.S. official said.

Mongolia, a former Communist country, has also volunteered to play a part in Trump’s diplomatic overtures to Pyongyang, offering to host Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a summit. The country is accessible by rail from North Korea.

Source:Reuters

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For a Visit With Trump, Mongolia’s President Is Really Ponying Up

Mongolia pledged to give Barron Trump a pony as a gift

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Vivian Salama

WASHINGTON—When President Trump meets with Mongolia’s president at the White House on Wednesday, it is the president’s youngest son who could walk—or trot—away a winner.

Mongolia pledged to give the president’s 13-year old son Barron Trump a pony as a gift, a courtesy marking President Khaltmaagiin Battulga’s first meeting with Mr. Trump, according to a senior administration official.

It isn’t clear if Barron Trump will actually receive the pony—Secret Service protocol and ethics rules make gift giving to the first family a tricky business. But he’ll likely get to name it when Mr. Battulga comes to visit, the official said.

The two leaders are scheduled to meet Wednesday as part of the administration’s effort to apply pressure on China and Russia through economic and military assistance to various countries in the region.

Mongolia is landlocked by China and Russia and relies heavily on China for trade. Senior administration officials said 90% of Mongolia’s trade flows through China. The U.S. is hoping to discuss trade alternatives with Mongolia to make it more self-sufficient.

During his visit, Mr. Battulga hopes to discuss possible legislation that would allow Mongolia to ship cashmere to the U.S., duty-free, so it is less reliant on China.

The discussions come as the Trump administration is working to restart its trade talks with China. Mongolia is watching those talks closely given its own relationship with China.

Mr. Battulga is a populist business tycoon and ex-judo champion whose meeting with Mr. Trump follows a recent visit to Mongolia by the American president’s national security adviser, John Bolton. The last time a Mongolian president visited the White House was in June 2011.

Barron Trump’s gifted horse isn’t a first. By tradition, Mongolia presents special dignitaries with a horse. At least two former U.S. defense secretaries, Donald Rumsfeld and Chuck Hagel, were presented with horses as gifts.

Source:Wall Street Journal

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Mongolia exports 749,000 tons of copper concentrates in H1

ULAN BATOR, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia exported a total of 749,100 tons of copper concentrates in the first half of this year, which is an increase of 15,400 tons from the same period last year, the Mongolian Customs General Administration (MCGA) said Tuesday.

As a result, the resource-rich Asian country received 1.06 billion U.S. dollars into the state budget, an increase of 48.4 million dollars year on year, the MCGA said in a statement.

Mining is the most important sector of Mongolia's economy. The country is rich in natural resources such as gold, silver, iron, coal, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, phosphates, tin, nickel, zinc, and fluorspar.

The mining industry accounted for 84 percent of total exports in the January-June period, according to the MCGA.

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Trump Courts Mongolia During Disputes With Neighbors China, Russia

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday plans to meet with Battulga Khaltmaa, the president of Mongolia, a land-locked country the U.S. views as strategically important as tensions rise with the nations sandwiching it, China and Russia.

Trump will discuss a free-trade pact with Mongolia, as well as U.S. investment in mineral deposits including rare earths, according to a senior Trump administration official. The elements are important to the American technology industry and now mostly sourced in China.

The official briefed reporters at the White House on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.

Mongolia is seeking trade routes that don’t involve China and wants help developing cashmere wool, one of its main exports, into finished products so that it doesn’t have to be shipped to China for processing, the official said. About 90 percent of Mongolia’s trade currently passes through China, according to a second official.

Trump seeks out more allies in the region as the U.S. trade dispute with China intensifies. Earlier on Tuesday, the U.S. president lashed out at Beijing for slashing its purchases of American agricultural products. The country continues to “rip off” the U.S., he said, just as negotiators resumed talks in Shanghai following a three-month impasse.

Mongolia may also be important to the U.S. as it confronts Russia. Relations between Washington and Moscow deteriorated after U.S. officials concluded the country interfered in the 2016 presidential elections and haven’t improved despite Trump’s overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump has a warm relationship with Mongolia’s government already; the administration official said that at some point in the past, the country gave the president’s son Barron a horse, which is still in Mongolia. It’s unclear if Barron would be allowed to accept it, the official said.

Mongolia has asked for Barron or someone in the administration to name the pony, the official said, and hinted that the president may do so at his meeting with Battulga.

Source:Bloomberg News

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Mongolia, Turkey eye closer cooperation, ties

ULAN BATOR, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Mongolian parliament speaker Gombojav Zandanshatar and his visiting Turkish counterpart Mustafa Sentop met here on Monday, pledging to strengthen cooperation and boost relations in a wide range of areas.

"We agreed to enhance bilateral ties and cooperation in various sectors such as economy, society, tourism, civil aviation and agriculture," Zandanshatar told reporters after he held talks with Sentop.

He expressed hope that Sentop's visit will contribute greatly to the further development of Mongolia-Turkey relations and cooperation.

For his part, Sentop, who landed in Mongolia Monday morning for a three-day official visit, said that Turkey has a strong desire to strengthen its relations and cooperation with Mongolia in all sectors.

He urged the two countries to fully seize existing opportunities to develop economic relations and boost ties.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Mongolia-Turkey diplomatic ties. The trade volume between the two countries amounted to 29 million U.S. dollars in 2017, according to Mongolia's National Statistical Office.

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Mongolia to hold yak festival to boost tourism

ULAN BATOR, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia will hold its fifth annual Yak Festival in its midwest Arkhangai Province on Aug. 17-18 to attract domestic and foreign tourists, a local official said Monday.

"Under the auspices of the Mongolian Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism, our province is preparing to organize the annual yak festival 'Mongol Yak' for the fifth year," Gansukh Battsetseg, a tourism official of Arkhangai, told Xinhua.

The festival aims to attract more domestic and foreign tourists by promoting the yak culture, said Battsetseg.

The two-day event will include a session about the sustainable development of yak farming, and entertainment like a yak parade, yak racing and a fashion show featuring yak wool clothes.

Arkhangai, about 465 km from the capital city of Ulan Bator, has more than 200,000 yaks.

The yak has a great value for nomadic breeders, as the animal has many uses and plays a necessary role in the development of a farm, and the festival highlights this kind of domesticated animal.

Mongolia is striving to develop its tourism sector in a bid to diversify its mining-dependent economy, and has set itself an annual goal of receiving 1 million visits by foreign tourists and earning 1 billion U.S. dollars from tourism by 2020.

The number of foreign visitors to Mongolia exceeded 529,000 in 2018, up some 11 percent from the previous year, according to the tourism ministry.

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Trade turnover between Mongolia and Italy reaches over $70 million

2020 will mark the 50th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and Italy, Montsame reports.

The Embassy of Italy was opened in Ulaanbaatar on July 29, 2017. As of today, 54 Italian invested companies are operating in Mongolia, making investment of $36.8 million. Italy invested mainly in the areas of trade, food industry, processing of animal origin raw materials and textile.

Trade turnover between the two countries reached over $70 million, of which USD 43.4 million are export and $33.3 million are import.

Since 1990, the government of Italy has rendered non-refundable aid worth $7.2 million to Mongolia. Italian Minister of Economic Development C.Calenda and Member of Parliament A.Undraa are working as chairpersons of Mongolia-Italy Intergovernmental Commission and Mongolia-Italy inter-parliamentary group.

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The Deadly Winters That Have Transformed Life For Herders In Mongolia

US National Public Radio (NPR) correspondent Emily Kwong done wonderful story on Mongolian climate change with detailed illustration, graphic and colorful pictures. Here is excepts of it. 

On a frigid morning in January 2000, Oyutan Gonchig rose at first light to check on his animals. A blanket of snow — over a foot deep — had fallen in the night. He shoveled himself out of his ger, a felt-covered tent traditionally used by semi-nomadic herders. The temperature was minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit, the kind of cold that freezes your eyelashes and stiffens your joints.

Stepping over the threshold and into this blindingly white world, he noticed it was eerily quiet outside.

"Everything was covered by snow. There was no way to distinguish the sheep trails," he remembers. "There were corpses."

A dozen dead animals — his animals, sheep and goats he had raised from birth — had collapsed in the snow. Those still alive were struggling to find grass beneath the snowdrifts, piled high by the biting wind. He felt horrified, and helpless.

"Some of the surviving animals were trying to find something to eat but couldn't," he recalls. "It was very difficult to see this."

A stunningly cold, snowy winter changed Oyutan's life forever. Several animals died every few days from starvation, illness and exposure to the elements. By May, he had lost 100 head of livestock — and his entire livelihood.

The cause was a phenomenon that Mongolians recognize with a specific word. They call it a dzud — the deterioration of winter weather conditions leading to a mass death of livestock from lack of food and/or water. Dzud winters vary, characterized by harsh cold, too much snow or not enough, ice and other factors.

There are five types of dzuds, and Oyutan's animals were claimed by the deadliest — a tsagaan dzud, meaning "white death." That's when snow covers the pastureland, blocking animals' access to food.

Like tens of thousands of other Mongolian herders, Oyutan was never able to recoup his losses. He was forced to forge a different life for himself.

Mongolia weathered consecutive dzuds around the turn of the century (three between 1999 and 2002) and again during the 2009-2010 winter, all against the backdrop of a devastating drought linked to climate change. The 2009-2010 dzud alone killed 22% of the nation's livestock.

For more go to :NPR story

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Life in Xinjiang Uygur

To familiarize with the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, two journalists from MONTSAME news agency were involved in ‘Discover Xinjiang’ international journalists’ program that was organized by China Daily newspaper group.

Delegation of media organizations from countries such as Mongolia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Vietnam and Thailand participated in the program between June 20 and 27, experiencing way of life, history, culture and prosperity of Urumqi, Turpan, Changjiang, Karamay and Kashgar cities.

The region leads the country with its oil, natural gas and coal reserves

Largest mountain ranges Altai Range, Tenger Mountain and Kunlun Range as well as Dzungaria Gobi Desert, Tarim Basin, Taklamakan desert occupy much of Xinjiang’s territory. Xinjiang, (literally means New Frontier or New Borderland) has a population of 26 million and is home to 55 ethnic groups including the Uyghur, Han, Kazakhs and Mongols, of whom 13 ethnic groups have been living in this territory over generations.

The region is popular with its Turpan grape, Hami watermelons and Kashgar pomegranates, it also leads China with its cotton production and in the second place with its mutton and meat products. 

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is a stronghold of China entering into Eurasian market and is an economic, trading, road and transport, logistics, oil and natural gas transportation hub for Eurasian countries. The most well-known route of Silk Road, which connected the East and West, used to run through the Xinjiang’s territory and it has become fundamental infrastructure of the regional development, not losing its significance until today.

XUAR is one of the leaders in China with its oil, natural gas and coal reserves and it supplies energy to other regions in the country. In particular, Xinjiang’s oilfield reserve is estimated at 20.9 billion tons, and it makes up 30 percent of oil reserve of China. Moreover, it has 11 trillion cubic meter natural gas (34 percent of China’s natural gas) and 2.19 trillion tons of coal (40 percent of coal reserves).

XUAR has been intensively developing over last 10 years and the capital city Urumqi has 5 million residents while Kashgar city with a history of 2000 years, where Uyghur people mostly live has a population of 4.6 million, Turpan city 650 thousand, Changjiang city 600 thousand, Karamay city, which has been developed from the town of oil workers into modern city, has 170 thousand residents. 

The reporters’ group participated in ‘Discover Xinjiang’ program visited Uyghur Muqami Arts Palace in Urumqi, which was inscribed on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2005 alongside getting acquainted with International Grand Bazaar which was established in 2018, Xinjiang International Exhibition Center and Islamic University.

Though the Xinjiang Uyghur Muqami that includes songs, dances, folk and classical music, was in danger of extinction for some period, the Government started maintaining an integrated policy on it in recent years. The Muqami Art Palace in Urumqi was built with financing of CNY 100 million from the Government. Not only the art of muqami is being taught in arts universities in Xinjiang today, but also the Government is paying attention to inheritors.

Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar plays pivotal role in Xinjiang’s economic growth and more than 130 shops and over 50 food houses operate along 730 m long street. A total of 12 million people visited the bazaar in 2018 and it serves to 150 thousand customers a day in summer and 30 thousand customers per day in winter.

Established in 1987, Islamic University in Urumqi, which started its operation to educate pastors to work in Islamic mosques, now have more than 1100 students. A new building built with investment of CNY 290 million was commissioned in 2017.

There are such ten universities in Xinjiang and the students study free of charge with Government funding.

No terrorist attacks organized in Xinjiang over last 30 months

While watching crime videos of Islamic extremists and weapons seized from them, the reporters were introduced with information about terrorist attacks provoked by Islamic extremists, which were organized numerous times since 1990, taking lives of thousands. However, no terrorist attacks have been organized over the last 2 years in Xinjiang thanks to staged measures taken by the Government of China and its preventative actions.  

About it, Head of Public Relations Department of the XUAR, Ms. Tian Wen said that we have been attaching special attention on preventing from attacks that can be organized by extremists and strengthening defense. As a result of these actions, no terrorist attacks have been organized in Xinjiang over the last 30 months. Policemen are prepared to prevent from crime coming to the site within one minute. Vocational education and training centers for people addicted to religion were set up in large numbers and risk groups are being involved. After completing the training, people are coming down to their normal mode of life. Western people are considering it as human rights are being violated in Xinjiang and people are being detained under the name of educating them. In fact, religious groups impinge on people’s rights to live, whereas, we are protecting people’s rights through taking above-mentioned measures. The number of criminal cases has been reduced in Xinjiang in recent years. Now our region is considered one of the safest places in China.  

About training centers for risk groups

In Kashgar, we visited one of the training centers, meeting with a citizen, who is now living peacefully with her family after studying at the center. 

Vocational training center in Kashgar conducts training on Chinese language, law and giving vocational trainings for at least 6 months or more to target groups (not only Uyghurs, anyone who considered as a risky man will be trained) who are addicted to religion or at risk to be addicted or a person who can be committed to crime. They are involved in the training upon their own request or proposals made by their families and the council of the town.

More than 1000 citizens are studying at the vocational training center where we visited and most of them are youths. Of whom 80 percent is men, 20 percent is women and they acquire occupations such as electrician, tailor and online trading specialist. The Government covers all the expenses including training, housing and food. Learners are allowed to go to their homes at weekends. It is only prohibited to run any religious activities at the center.

Counterterrorism law has been adopted in Xinjiang. According to the law, these vocational training centers were founded. Presently, no cases that the learner got involved again in risk group after graduation have been recorded.

“I used to meet different people when I was working as a seller in our family shop. Some of them convinced me by saying that Uyghur people always have to pray coming to the Mosque, that we should strictly enforce our religious disciplines and as you communicate with many people, you have to influence these people and persuade them. So I started tempting people and my behavior has been changed into negative side, selling products at higher price to the people who have different religious faith. Due to it, I got used to regularly argue with my husband and lived with my parents for a while. Therefore, my husband and parents notified about me to the council of the town and I decided to study at this center upon my own request. There I learnt Chinese at certain level. In addition, I acquired legal knowledge and artistic occupation. Now I dance at performances. I am living peacefully with my family without any conflicts,” said Ms. A, who studied at the center for 10 months.

She lives with her husband, two children aged 8-10 and grandparents. Her husband runs canteen and they plant fruit trees in their fence besides raising chicken and sheep. 

150 million domestic and foreign tourists visited in 2018

Turpan is an ancient city, symbol of Xinjiang and one of the tourist attraction spots. It is well known for its grapes and almost every household grow grapes. As it is the lowest land in China, temperature reaches +49 Celsius degrees here. Turpan received 16 million domestic and foreign tourists in 2018. Our guide said that 8000 people visit remains of ancient city Jiaohe a day.

Manufacturing and tourism are the main economic leverage of Changjiang city. The food street of Changjiang city is the place where all ethnic groups live in the city, make and sell their foods and tourists bustle. 

Xinjiang Medical University in Changjiang combines traditional Chinese medical practice with European treatment and scholars and professors from countries such as the United States, France conduct trainings and make check-ups. Especially, traditional Chinese medical practice including acupuncture and cauterization and acuclosure are popular and infertility is being successfully cured here. All citizens in Xinjiang get medical examination gratuitously once a year. Over 90 percent of Chinese population have health insurance and treatment expense is paid up to 80-90 percent from the insurance fund.

In Karamay city, we familiarized with activities of Citizens Center, Senior Recreation Center, Information Technology and Industrial Park co-founded by Huawei and China mobile companies and Branch of China University of Petroleum-Beijing alongside visiting at Uyghur family and sailing through the Karamay River.

China University of Petroleum in Karamay has over 2000 students and it enrolls 400 students in bachelor’s degree programs in 4 professions and 50 students respectively in master’s and doctoral programs. Students of the university do internships at 17 companies and industries including oil refinery in Karamay and employed after their graduation. 

Additionally, 8 million students graduate from universities a year in China and 13 million people are employed.

One of the six largest cloud computing centers of China has been operating in Karamay. Officially founded in 2013, based on Huawei company’s database, data products developed by the center are being widely used in administration, health, small sized enterprises, scientific and defense organizations, tourism, agriculture, bio technology and material production. 

In Karamay, we visited Mr.Halida Ahmed’s home, experiencing their livelihood. He is a Uyghur man, who has been living in the city since he was born here. He lives with his wife, son and daughter and he works at apartment owners’ association while his wife works at city administration.

Though he was hesitating to tell about his family’s monthly income, then he answered CNY 10000. He notified that he has willingness to enlarge their living space in the future.

Office space is CNY 2400-3000 per square meter in Karamay, while it reaches CNY 4000-5000 per sq.m if it has the Government approval.  However, within the Government policies of reducing poverty and 
housing its people in recent years, housing price has been decreasing, said Mr. Halid Ahmed and served us with Uyghur cuisine made together with his wife.

The name of the city Karamay means ‘Black oil’ in Uyghur language.  If you observe Karamay’s sand well, it looks deep brown with black stripes.

By Sh.Batbold

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Statement from the Press Secretary of the White House on the Visit of His Excellency Khaltmaagiin Battulga, President of Mongolia

President Donald J. Trump will welcome President Khaltmaagiin Battulga of Mongolia to the White House on July 31, 2019. The visit will focus on deepening cooperation between the United States and Mongolia to strengthen security and promote prosperity for both our countries. President Trump and President Battulga will discuss a range of issues, including defense and security, trade and investment, and sovereignty and rule of law, with the goal of sustaining a free and open Indo-Pacific region and the enduring partnership between our two countries.

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Mongolia's central bank purchases 7.8 tons of gold so far this year

ULAN BATOR, July 25 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia's central bank announced on Thursday that it has bought a total of 7.8 tons of gold from legal entities and individuals since the beginning of this year, down by 14.5 percent year-on-year.

The decline was mainly related to the expiration of the effective period of low royalty taxes on gold with the 2014 amendments to the Minerals Law, the bank's spokesperson Dugerjav Orgil told a press conference.

The 2.5 percent of discounted royalty on gold mining ended on Jan. 1. From then on, 5 to 10 percent royalty taxes on gold mining have been imposed on miners, resulting in the decrease of the central bank's gold purchase by 71.6 percent year-on-year in the January-March period.

To revive the central bank's gold purchases, the country's parliament has set the gold royalty at a 5-percent rate.

Gold purchase by the Bank of Mongolia has been continuously increasing since the discounted royalty on gold mining entered into force on April 8.

Purchasing gold is said to be one of the key instruments for the mineral-rich country's central bank to increase its official foreign exchange reserves.

The Bank of Mongolia purchased only 12.7 tons of gold in 2014. Thanks to the low royalty taxes on gold with the 2014 amendments, its annual gold purchase almost doubled in 2018, reaching 22 tons. Enditem

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