Niya

There are 616 party members in the Niya county; 532 are Uighur. The Youth League here has 1,175 members; 1,035 are Uighur. I am the secretary of the party committee; four of the seven members are Uighur.

1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Hening, The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 160

There's also a bus from Khotan which stays overnight at Niya and starts at about 7.30am, but not every day. On a good day Charchan is 307km, 7½ hours, and ¥20 away. On a bad one it's ¥33 ($4) and 12 hours, depending on who's selling the ticket and the state of the bus.

1997, Peter Neville-Hadley, China the Silk Routes (Cadogan Guides), Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306

The beer festival happened in a village in Niya County in the deep south of Xinjiang, which is overwhelmingly populated by the Muslim Uighur people who call Xinjiang home. Muslims are not meant to consume alcohol, according to the Koran.

2015 June 22, Ben Blanchard, “Exiles angered as China holds beer festival in Muslim county”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2019, Emerging Markets

A Uyghur woman named Turakhan who lives in a suburban village of Niya (in Chinese, Minfeng) county in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture told RFA’s Uyghur Service on Wednesday that the village chief and police had informed all residents about “the list of forbidden Muslim names.”

2015, Roseanne Gerin, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Chinese Authorities Ban Muslim Names Among Uyghurs in Hotan”, in Eset Sulaiman, editor, Radio Free Asia

Jiapaer Sadik Mazar The mazar built on the pretext of the Shia Imam of the sixth generation Jiapaer Sadik, which is also called “Minfeng Grand Mazar”, is located in Niya Town of Minfeng County with an unknown building time.

Yu Shangping

2014, 于尚平 [Yu Shangping], editor, The Diversity of Xinjiang, Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173