Ejin

The raiders cut the power supply and smashed surveillance equipment before pepper-spraying the workers, putting bags over their heads and threatening to beat them to death if they didn’t comply, according to Chen Tiejun, the deputy magistrate of Ejin Banner, a county bordering Gansu province.

2015 December 6, Laura Zhou, “Masked raiders bulldoze Chinese border outpost and dump stuff in Gobi Desert”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2015, Society

On Monday, disease-hit Erenhot in Inner Mongolia banned travel in and out of the city and ordered residents to stay at home, while an outbreak in Ejin county prompted authorities earlier this week to shutter tourist sites and restrict travel.

2021 October 22, “Beijing launches new mass testing wave after four Covid cases found”, in France 24, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2021

Instead, the Beijing resident has been stuck for more than three weeks, much of it in quarantine, after authorities discovered a cluster of COVID-19 cases in a nearby city. He was among more than 9,000 tourists who became trapped in Ejin Banner, a remote part of China’s Inner Mongolia region that is in the Gobi.

2021 November 10, Huizhong Wu, “As many try living with virus, China keeps up zero tolerance”, in AP News, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2021