Shihezi
Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in Northern Xinjiang, China.
Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in Northern Xinjiang, China. It has a population of 380,130 according to the 2010 census. The city is also home to Shihezi University, the second-largest comprehensive university under the Project 211 in Xinjiang.
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Worth seeing in and around Shihezi
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Shihezi University
Shihezi University is a public university in Shihezi, Xinjiang, China. Founded in 1996, it is affiliated with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Corps.
2 km · university in Shihezi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Peoples square at night, mountains behind the city rise to 16,000 feet. Mushroom lake
From Wikivoyage: Shihezi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Visit the university and the medical college, look for English students to talk to.
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Where to eat
The finest watermelon in Xinjiang.
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Getting to Shihezi
- Airports
- Ürümqi Tianshan (URC), 120 km
- Ürümqi → Shihezi137 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · ¥60–80
- Dunhuang → Shihezi847 km · quickest by air, 10h 10m · ¥920–1,400
- Kashgar → Shihezi989 km · quickest by air, 10h 21m · ¥1,020–1,560
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shihezi
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Shihezi. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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