Kazakhstan oil pours into China through crossborder pipeline Oct 3, 2008
China has completed laying a 252-km oil pipeline between Alataw Pass to Dushanzi in Karamay where the country's largest oil refinery plant will become operational in 2008 to produce 5. 5 million tons of refined oil a year. (Xinhuanet, China -- Business)
Air passengers face extra security checks for Olympics Jul 8, 2008
Xinjiang has 11 airports, Urumqi, Hami, Korla, Kuqa, Hetan, Kashi (Kashgar), Aksu, Yining, Karamay, Fuyun, and Altay. Tibet has at least two civilian airports, with one about 75 km away from the regional capital of Lhasa. (Xinhuanet, China)
Dispatches From China's Wild West Mar 8, 2008
On the 12-hour bus trip from Urumqi through flat, desolate scrub, we saw almost no human settlement other than the new oil town of Karamay, with its gleaming glass-pyramid airport. It felt like the end of the earthand a suitable home for China's most mysterious creature, the Kanas Lake Monster. (Slate)
New 'Great Game' for Central Asia riches Dec 16, 2007
The pipeline, designed to supply up to 15 per cent of China's oil needs, will serve the major new Chinese refinery in Karamay, to open in 2008. By some estimates, one-sixth of Kazakhstan's oil production will someday be pumped to China. (Anchorage Daily News)
Economic Change Puts Social Pressure on Uighurs in Chinas Xinjiang Province Jul 26, 2007
According to government statistics from 2000, average incomes in the region s richest city Karamay, a northern oil town were more than 25 times higher than those in its poorest district of Hotan. Given Go West s questionable benefit for the populations most in need, some observers contend that China s support for development via immigration is actually an attempt to dilute the Uighur population and curb nationalist sentiment. (EurasiaNet.org)
Officials took preference over children in fire disaster: journalist May 9, 2007
A total of 323 people were killed in the fire in the oil town of Karamay in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang on Dec. 8, 1994 ... Chen Yaowen, a reporter for the state-run China Central Television, published "Belated Report: Unveiling the mystery surrounding the 12-8 Karamay fire" on his blog this month, sparking outrage on the Internet ... "The Karamay inferno 12 years ago that shook the heavens has always been agony at the bottom of my heart," Mr. Chen wrote on his blog... (Globe and Mail -- International)
Xinjiang becomes top gas producer in China Feb 6, 2007
The Tarim, Karamay and Tuha oilfields, the three major fields in the region, produced 11 billion, 2. 88 billion and 1. (Xinhuanet, China)
