Definition of "Bortala"
Bortala
proper noun
A Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang, China.
Quotations
Overall, trade via the new ports of entry on the Xinjiang-Kazakstani border expanded tremendously in the first five years. Six of the new ports are by road: They include[...]The most important route, however, is the railway link that crosses the Chinese-Kazakstani border at Alataw (Ala Shankou), in the Bortala-Mongol Autonomous Prefecture.
1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, page 201
The ruling Communist Party’s graft-fighting Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that Guo Xiangyi, who was a senior official in Xinjiang’s Bortala region, abused his power, took bribes and expropriated land.Guo, likely a Han Chinese judging by his name, also “faked and changed the ethnicity of his wife and child”, the statement said, without giving details.While the Uighurs, a Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, are the main minority in Xinjiang, Bortala is home to a large number of ethnic Mongols.
2015 December 24, Ben Blanchard, “Minority report: Chinese official 'faked family's ethnicity'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 19 June 2022, World News
Wenquan is part of the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the base of the Chahar in Xinjiang. (Their ancestral home is in present-day Inner Mongolia, where the majority of Chahar in China live.) The prefecture is one of several scattered enclaves that arose from Qing-era garrisons.
2017 June 18, Edward Wong, “Mongolian Warriors and Communist Soldiers: A Frontier Town in China”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2017-06-19, Asia Pacific