Кытайдагы этникалык кыргыздар (2/3) - Ethnic Kyrgyz in China (2/3)

Бул видео Кытайдагы Кызыл-Суу Автоном Провинциясыдагы жагашан этникалык кыргыздар жонундо. This video is about ethnic Kyrgyz people living in Kizilisu Kirgiz Autonomous Region.
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The Kirgiz Ethnic Minority is the 31st Ethnic Minority Group in China, being granted Minority Status in the 1950's AD. The members of the Kirgiz Ethnic Minority of China nearly all live in Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region in West China. The majority, some 80% reside near Artux in the 72,500 square kilometer (27,992 square miles) Kizilsu (Kesilesu ; Chinese: 克孜勒苏柯尔克孜族自治州) Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, which located on the Kyrgyzstan Border in the Tian Shan Mountain Range of West Xinjiang-Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Other groups are found in the area West of Kashgar, in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County South of Kashgar, and West of Urumqi near the city of Jinghe' on the Manas Lake. Manas lake was made famous by Kirgiz Folk Songs about its beauties.
The rest live in the neighboring Wushi (Uqturpan), in the area of Aksu City, around Shache (Yarkant), in Yingisarand Pishan (Guma), and in Tekes, Zhaosu (Monggolkure), Emin (Dorbiljin), Bole (Bortala) and Gonliu in northern Xinjiang. Far away from all other Kirgiz Ethnic Communities in China, several 10 thousands of Kirgiz whose forefathers emigrated to Northeast China more than 200 years ago now live in Wujiazi Village in Fuyu County of Heilongjiang Province.
The number of Kirgiz in China was counted at 70 thousand 115 in 1964 AD, 113 thousand 866 in 1982 AD, 141 thousand 549 in 1990, and was last measured at 160 thousand and 800 in the year 2000 AD National Census.
The Kirgiz are mainly engaged in animal husbandry, being pastoral people. Their lifestyle is semi-nomadic, as their animals move to greener pastures with the seasons. In Summer the Kirgiz live on the plains near rivers and in winter they move to mountain slopes with a sunny exposure. A minority fraction of the Kirgiz , currently some 15% of the population engages in agriculture only.
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