Kuytun

This article is about a city in China. For the inhabited localities in Russia, see Kuytun, Russia.

Kuytun كۈيتۇن Kuitun
—  County-level city  —
奎屯市
Location of Kuytun City (red) within Ili Prefecture (yellow), Xinjiang, and the PRC
Kuytun Location in Xinjiang
Coordinates: 42°50′N 90°30′E
Country	People's Republic of China
Region	Xinjiang
Prefecture	Ili (Kazakh)
Area
• Total	1,171 km2 (452 sq mi)
Population (2003)
• Total	300,000
• Density	260/km2 (660/sq mi)

Kuytun or Kuitun (Chinese: 奎屯; pinyin: Kuítún) is a county-level city with about 285,000 residents (2000 census) in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. Kuitun is located between Wusu and Shihezi on the railway from Urumqi to Kazakhstan, close to a desert.

The city was historically associated with the Seventh Agricultural Division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which had run it until 1975, and still continues to administer the county-level city's Tianbei New District.

Local industries include food processing and textile industries, as well as Kuitun Power Plant.

Transport

Kuytun is served by China National Highway 312. It is a railway junction for the Northern Xinjiang, Second Ürümqi-Jinghe and Kuytun-Beitun Railways.

External links

• Kuitun City Government (Chinese)
• Kuitun City info (Chinese)
• Kuitun Map (Chinese)