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North West China was historically a border region with the beginning of the ancient Silk Road, much desert terrain, and mainly Muslim inhabitants including some nomads and rather fierce tribal groups.
The Northwest China region is one of the cradles of Chinese civilisation. To the east of the region, Shaanxi is home to the fossil remains of Lantian Man (primitive man from 5-6 million years ago), and more notably the 8000 Terracotta Warriors of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Xi’an, buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife. Discovered in 1974, the Terracotta Warriors are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
North West China has always had strong Chinese influences, though at times there were also independent kingdoms in the area. Over the past hundred years there has been considerable migration by Han Chinese; they are now the largest ethnic group in most areas. Today it is a rapidly growing region, though still less developed than coastal areas.
The Northwest China region includes the trail of the Silk Road, a historically important international trade route between China and the Mediterranean. As China comprised a large proportion of the silk trade along this ancient road, it was named the ‘Silk Road’ in 1877.
These network of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers during various periods of time.
The western side of the region includes Gansu, sered as one of the earliest channels for cultural exchanges and trade between the East and West during the Han and Tang Dynasties.
The region continues to develop as a newly emerging industrial site, with Qinghai Province the political, cultural and economic centre of the area.
The gigantic provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang spread across the whole of the Chinese northwest, an almost dizzying agglomeration of desert, grassland, raging rivers and colossal mountains. Despite the region’s impressive size, which alone would form the eighth largest country in the world, it contains only four percent of China’s population
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