Meaning of Khorgas | Babel Free

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1. A county-level city of Ili, Xinjiang autonomous region, China on the border with Kazakhstan.
2. A town in Kazakhstan on the border with Xinjiang, China.

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“On the Chinese side of the Khorgas border⟳ point⟳, a rash of buildings testified to the sudden spike in China-Kazakhstan exchanges over the border⟳ in the 1980s and early 1990s.”

“This traditionally Kazakh stronghold is lush with farmland, pasture and flanking forest-blanketed mountains — a big change⟳ from the usual preconceptions of Xinjiang — and from here you can exit China at Khorgas and travel⟳ onward to Almaty. Although a train⟳ spur line is being built to Yining and Khorgas, the current method of travel⟳ for this excursion is by bus or private jeep.”

“At Fuyun I meet⟳ an employee of Boshihao Electronic, a firm registered in the southern city of Shenzhen, which is planning to open⟳ its robot production workshop in Khorgas and expects to start⟳ exporting service robots to Europe in 2017.[...]This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East. When you cross the border⟳ to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name⟳ of the town is the same, but there is a difference in pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border⟳ post⟳.”

“This is the new Wild West - quite literally, for the many young people flocking to Khorgas from the big Chinese mega-cities to the East. When you cross the border⟳ to the Kazakh side, things are more subdued. The Kazakh Khorgos (the name⟳ of the town is the same, but there is a difference in pronunciation) is still more or less what it has always been: a couple of dozen old houses congregated around a pretty mosque and a road running down to the border⟳ post⟳.”

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