Definition of "Payzawat"

Local government officials confirmed for the first time this month that an organized uprising against Chinese rule took place as late as the early 1980s.Moslem peasants in Payzawat, 100 kilometres east of Kashgar, raided a military armoury and attacked Han Chinese with the stolen weapons. Units of the People's Liberation Army crushed the rebellion, with many deaths, local people from the Moslem Uighur ethnic group said.Kashgar's vice-mayor Mohamed Emin, a Uighur but a non-Moslem Communist Party member, said a group "bent on destroying ethnic unity" had been responsible.Payzawat - called Jiashi County by Peking - is closed to foreigners although overseas tour groups now regularly visit Kashgar. Local sources said the rebellion followed riots in Kashgar in 1981 that exploded when a Chinese shopkeeper shot dead a Uighur peasant who had parked a donkey-cart load of manure outside his premises.

1988 May 24, Andrew Roche, “Racial tensions simmer on China's ancient Silk Road”, in Jerusalem Post‎, volume 56, number 16834, via Internet Archive, page 6

In the early 1980s, the local people rose up in armed rebellion against the Chinese presence in the regional centre of Payzawat. The Chinese army was called in to put down the uprising and the death toll was high.

1994, Pierre-Antoine Donnet, translated by Tica Broch, Tibet: Survival in Question‎, Zed Books Ltd, page 134

According to official Chinese media, Payzawat (Jiashi) has a population of at least 300,000, while Maralbeshi (Bachu) has a population of 260,000. Both counties are 90 percent Uyghur.

2003, “DEATH TOLL RISING FAST IN XINJIANG QUAKE”, in Radio Free Asia‎

Emin travelled from Khotan to Payzawat and agreed to combine his forces with those of Temur to launch an attack on Kashgar.

2014, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century‎, Routledge, page 32

The women's federation in Payzawat County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, along with other government bodies there, has undertaken multiple means to help underprivileged women from ethnic minorities start up their own businesses or find employment in their hometowns in recent years.

2016, Wang Jiangpin, “Multiple Efforts Introduced to Help Ethnic Women in Start-ups and Employment”, in Hewater Liu, editor, All-China Women's Federation‎, archived from the original on 21 March 2020

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Payzawat County of Kashgar Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 00:05 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).

2020 January 18, “5.4-magnitude earthquake hits Xinjiang: CENC”, in yan, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎, archived from the original on 21 March 2020