Hutubi County

Hutubi County 呼图壁县 قۇتۇبى ناھىيىسى
County
Location of Hutubi County (pink) in Changji Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang (light grey)
Coordinates: 44°8.627′N 86°56.91284′E
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Xinjiang
Autonomous prefecture	Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture
Township-level divisions	6 towns 1 township 1 ethnic township
County seat	Hutubi Town (呼图壁镇)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Hutubi County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	呼图壁县
Traditional Chinese	呼圖壁縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hūtúbì Xiàn Wade–Giles Hu-t’u-pi Hsien other Mandarin Xiao'erjing ﺧُﻮْ ﺗُﻮْ بِ ﺷِﯿًﺎ
Alternative Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	景化县
Traditional Chinese	景化縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jǐnghuà Xiàn
Uyghur name
Uyghur	قاغىلىق ناھىيىسى‎
Transcriptions Latin Yëziqi Qutubi nahiyisi Yengi Yeziⱪ K̡utubi nah̡iyisi SASM/GNC Kutubi Nahiyisi Siril Yëziqi Қутубиқ наһийиси

Hutubi County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Kutubi County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 9,476 km². According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 210,000.

Hutubi is 61.7 km (38.3 mi) by road north-west of Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang.

Transport

Hutubi is served by China National Highway 312, the Northern Xinjiang and the Second Ürümqi–Jinghe Railways.

Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs were recorded in Qutubi County at Kangjiashimenzi (Chinese: 康家石门子; pinyin: Kāngjiāshíménzi) and are interpreted as representing male fertility worship. This is because in the two depictions of copulation, the males have faces on their chests, suggesting that the petroglyph's creators believed that males were the source of children. The alleged superiority of the petroglyph's male subjects was the basis for the researcher's conclusion that they were created after 1500 BCE, when it is believed that matriarchal societies were replaced by patriarchies.