Definition of "Changji"

During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]

, numbers 128-140, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 15

As elsewhere in Xinjiang, the number of Han Chinese throughout the Changji prefecture increased in the late 1950s. Towns and villages all along the main east-west road experienced considerable growth.

1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads‎, M. E. Sharpe, page 165

On its public WeChat account, East Hope Group said that it had “responded to the national Western Development Call and actively participated in the development and construction of Xinjiang,” including constructing a polysilicon project in Changji prefecture in 2016, the Horizon report said.

2021 January 8, Ana Swanson, Christopher Buckley, “Chinese Solar Companies Tied to Use of Forced Labor”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 08 January 2021‎

In Changji, about 40 km west of the regional capital, Urumqi, green and red minarets of the city's Xinqu Mosque lay broken below a Chinese flag flying over the deserted building's courtyard.Reuters analysed satellite imagery of 10 mosques in Changji city and visited six of them.A total of 31 minarets and 12 green or gold domes had been removed within a period of two months after April 2018, according to dated images.At several mosques, Islamic architecture was replaced with Chinese-style roofing. These included Changji's Tianchi road mosque, whose gold dome and minarets were removed in 2018, according to publicly available satellite images.

2021 May 13, Cate Cadell, “Mosques disappear as China strives to 'build a beautiful Xinjiang'”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 13 May 2021, China‎