DOCSLIB.ORG

30 Day Chinese Muslim Prayer Guide

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
30 Day Chinese Muslim Prayer Guide Pray for Chinese Muslims 30-Day Guide 穆 斯 林 eastasianpeoples.imb.org his prayer guide is a joint effort by individuals and T churches passionate about reaching Chinese Muslims with the Gospel. We’re excited that you are joining us for this month of prayer, and we encourage you to spread the word and recruit others to pray for Chinese Muslims. You are welcome to forward this guide to others, or print it and distribute it inside your church. If you would like for someone to share with your church more specifically about how God is working among Chinese Muslims, please email [email protected]. Pray4Hui.com is also a great resource for stories and prayer requests. Check Twitter @pray4hui for regular prayer requests. than 2,000 follow Jesus and only a few small house churches exist. The Chinese church has experienced great Why growth, currently numbering about 100 million Christians. Many Chinese believers are dedicated the Hui, Salar, to taking the Gospel throughout Central Asia and the Middle East back to Jerusalem. Dongxiang Chinese believers are zealous to reach the rest of the world with the Gospel, but many have and Bao’an? overlooked the Muslims inside their own country. Perhaps the racial barriers between the Han and Chinese Muslims are too great. But one thing is certain: God cares deeply for these unique people groups and longs for them to know about His love for them. He has not forgotten them. oday in China, 10 people groups share a Tcommon characteristic distinct from the We believe that passionate prayer is vitally rest of China: they are Muslim. Six of these 10 important for the salvation of the Hui, Salar, people groups are found predominantly in western Dongxiang and Bao’an. As we pray, God will call China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region. However, missionaries to plant their lives among Chinese four groups — Hui, Salar, Dongxiang and Bao’an Muslims. As we pray, God will come to Chinese — settled in north central China. Today they are Muslims in dreams and visions. As we pray, God more assimilated into Chinese culture than their will build His church among the Hui, Salar, Muslim brothers and sisters in the west. Dongxiang and Bao’an. Most Salar, Dongxiang and Bao’an reside within Thank you for joining us in praying for Chinese a four-hour drive of each other, and they live Muslims. During the next 30 days, you will among and are surrounded by thousands of read stories about Chinese Muslims, Muslim- Hui. These four people groups share a common background believers and Han Chinese believers bond in seeking to remain Muslim in a society who have a heart to proclaim the Gospel to that is very atheistic and discourages everyone, Chinese Muslims. We pray that these stories will especially children, from believing any religion. guide your prayers and open your eyes to the great Because of their shared Muslim heritage, they need to proclaim the Gospel among the Hui, Salar, gladly do business together and eat in each Dongxiang and Bao’an. other’s restaurants. However, they prefer not to intermarry, and their specific beliefs can vary. These peoples share another trait: they have all but been forgotten by the rest of society. They are not radical Muslims, and they are rarely in the news, even inside China. They may seem small in view of 1.3 billion Chinese, yet the vast majority of these 15 million people have never heard the Gospel. The Salar, Dongxiang and Bao’an do not yet have Bibles in their respective languages. Out of the four groups combined, fewer or you, choosing to follow the Way seems Fsimple. Just believe and confess that Jesus is Lord, right? But for others like me, it’s not that Day 1 easy. Do you know me? My name is Wang Li* and I am 23 years old. I recently graduated from a university Do you not far from my hometown. It was at this university know me? that I first heard about the Way. You see, my situation is a little different. I didn’t choose what I would believe as I grew up. Instead I was born into a culture and community that had already chosen for me. I was Hui, and therefore I was Muslim. There was no reason to question it, because there were no Prayer Requests questions — this was my family. • As the consequences of following Jesus During my fourth year of studies, I kept hearing in Hui communities are understood by whispers about the Way. I was intrigued by what people like Wang Li, pray that they will I heard and one day I was invited to the home of realize that following Him is the only someone who could tell me more. She gave me a choice that brings true life and hope. book and said that the answers to all the questions I had could be found between its covers. For • Pray that those who have been disowned weeks I searched through the pages of this book. by their families and removed from their The stories were more exciting to me than any communities will find a new family and I had ever heard. Yet I knew there was a much new community inside the church. deeper meaning than what I could grasp and I had Pray that communities of Hui, Salar, to figure out what it was. Dongxiang and Bao’an believers will Several times I returned to the house of the friend form all over East Asia.回 who had given me the book. Each time she answered more of my questions and told me how I too could follow the Leader of the Way. I knew that I was hearing the truth — everything within me knew it and longed to follow, but I agonized Did You Know? over the consequences that were sure to come. Islam is at the core of who Chinese Muslims are — it has been engrained in them from If I gave up my traditions and decided to follow childhood, even if they族 don’t fully understand the Way, I might never be able to be married. Finding a job would be nearly impossible. I quite it. Far more than a set of religious beliefs, possibly would even be arrested. But worst of all, Islam is a total way of life. For many Hui, if I chose to follow, my family would no longer Salar, Dongxiang and Bao’an, rejecting Islam call me their own. How could I bring such shame is as radical as rejecting their families and to my family? their ethnic identities. *name changed Pray for Chinese Muslims | 5 y name is Aaron* and I want share my life Mwith you. I was born in northwest China Day 2 in a Muslim city to a Muslim family. But I didn’t know much about the Islamic culture until I left home. When I started college, I had two Muslim roommates in my dormitory. They asked me to Once I was be a real Muslim guy, so we went to the mosque lost, but now on Fridays. After college, I went back to my hometown. I am found! Sometimes when I felt down and sad, I went to the mosque to do the ritual prayers, but it didn’t help. I still felt sad because it was just a rite, a ceremony. I had a very good friend who suggested that I read the Bible. She said, “If you read it, you will know more about the Lord. You will know His words, Prayer Requests which may help you.” But I thought it was the • Pray that Aaron will grow daily in his Christians’ book, so as a Muslim, I must not read walk with Jesus and that he will boldly it. However, she told me, “You can make your proclaim the Gospel to the Muslims own choice. If it is the truth, it is not afraid to be around him. put under the light. If it is not the truth, you can choose to give it up. Give yourself a chance to know God.” And then I started to read it. • Pray that God will form a Muslim-back- ground church around Aaron so that he I felt like God was very kind to me, just as it is and other Muslim-background believers written in a song Amazing Grace, “Once I was lost, like him will be able to worship together. but now I am found, was blind, but now I see.” I felt so inspired, and then I came to Him. Now I want to spend all my life serving Him. *name changed Did You Know? Although there are more than 15 million Hui scattered throughout China, very few (including Chinese Christians) are intention- 回ally planting their lives among the Hui to tell them about Christ. It is estimated that every five minutes one Hui person dies. Currently, more Hui people are dying daily than are hearing the Gospel. The Hui are in desperate need of more laborers to boldly proclaim the Gospel and reap the harvest 族God has prepared. 6 | Pray for Chinese Muslims he family sat on the heated kang, Ta brick or concrete sleeping platform, in a simple village home, Day 3 sipping hot tea and nibbling bread as they talked to their two visitors. They talked about the weather, their work raising livestock, Fear of and the problems of educating their children evil spirits in the village without a school. The conversation turned when the Quranic verses, written in exquisite Arabic calligraphy on the walls, caught the visitors’ attention.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Download 375.48 KB
    ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TAR:PRC 31175 TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (Financed by the Cooperation Fund in Support of the Formulation and Implementation of National Poverty Reduction Strategies) TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FOR PARTICIPATORY POVERTY REDUCTION PLANNING FOR SMALL MINORITIES August 2003 CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 31 July 2003) Currency Unit – yuan (CNY) Y1.00 = $0.1208 $1.00 = Y8.2773 ABBREVIATIONS ADB – Asian Development Bank FCPMC – Foreign Capital Project Management Center LGOP – State Council Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development NGO – nongovernment organization PRC – People's Republic of China RETA – regional technical assistance SEAC – State Ethnic Affairs Commission TA – technical assistance UNDP – United Nations Development Programme NOTES (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government ends on 31 December (ii) In this report, "$" refers to US dollars. This report was prepared by D. S. Sobel, senior country programs specialist, PRC Resident Mission. I. INTRODUCTION 1. During the 2002 Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Programming Mission to the People's Republic of China (PRC), the Government reconfirmed its request for technical assistance (TA) for Participatory Poverty Reduction Planning for Small Minorities as a follow-up to TA 3610- PRC: Preparing a Methodology for Development Planning in Poverty Blocks under the New Poverty Strategy. After successful preparation of the methodology and its adoption by the State Council Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP) to identify poor villages within the “key working counties” (which are eligible for national poverty reduction funds), the Government would like to apply the methodology to the PRC's poorest minority areas to prepare poverty reduction plans with villager, local government, and nongovernment organization (NGO) participation.
    [Show full text]
  • Gongboxia South Canal Irrigation Scheme
    Ethnic Minority Development Plan: Gongboxia South Canal Irrigation Scheme May 2010 PRC: Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project Prepared by the Qinghai Provincial Government for the Asian Development Bank. 2 Abbreviations ADB - Asian Development Bank EMDAP - ethnic minority development action plan EMDP - ethnic minority development plan FGD - focus group discussion FPA - farmers’ professional association MEGDP - multiethnic group development plan PMO - project management office PRC - People’s Republic of China WRD - water resources department WUA - water users association Units 1 hectare = 15 mu 1 jin = 0.5 kilogram 3 CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................... 5 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 8 1.1. Background of the subproject ............................................................................... 8 1.2. Scope of the subproject ......................................................................................... 9 1.3. Objectives of this plan .......................................................................................... 11 1.4. Methodology .......................................................................................................... 11 1.5. Policy framework ................................................................................................... 11 1.6. Ongoing Ethnic Minority Projects in the Affected Areas
    [Show full text]
  • 151 Abdurishid Yakup Çev. Duygu Özge Demir Salar
    TDD/JofEL Winter/Kış 2020/16 • Tehlikedeki Diller Dergisi/Journal of Endangered Languages ABDURİSHİD YAKUP ÇEV. DUYGU ÖZGE DEMİR SALAR HALKI VE DİLLERİ SALAR PEOPLE AND THEIR LANGUAGE . Coğrafi dağılım ve iç adlandırma Salarlar, Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti’nde Türkçe konuşan sekiz etnik gruptan biridir, diğerleri Uygur, Kazak, Kırgız, Özbek, Tatar, Tuva ve Sarı Uygurlardır. Muhtemelen bir Güney-Sibirya Türkçesi olan Fu-yü Kırgızcası çoğunlukla Çin dilbilim literatüründe Kırgızca içerisinde varsayılmaktadır. 2000 nüfus sayımına göre, toplam Salar nüfusu 104,521’dir. Çin’deki Sincan Uygur Özerk bölgesinde yaşayan yaklaşık 5000 Salar dışında, Salarların çoğu özellikle Şunhua Salar Özerk İlçesi’nde ve komşu Gandan Rural Bölgesi’nde, Çinghay Eyaleti’nin Hualong Hui Özerk İlçesi’nde ve Gansu Eyaleti’nin Jişişan Bao’an Dongsiang Salar Özerk İlçesi’nde (Jishishan Bao’anzu Dongxiangzu Salazu zizhixian) yaşamaktadır (Sincan Salarlarının en yeni istatistikleri için bakınız Jia ve Li 2010: 84). Çinghay ve Gansu Eyaletleri’nde yaşayan Salarlar kendilerine Salır ya da Salar derlerken, Sincan Uygur Özerk bölgesindeki Salarlar Salalıq’ı tercih etmektedirler. Muhtemelen, birincisi, yani Salır ya da Salar, 11. yüzyılda Türkolog Kaşgarlı Mahmud tarafından Dįvānü Lügāti’t-Türk’te kaydedilmiş çok eski bir kabile adı olan Salġur’a gitmektedir; oysaki ikincisi “Salar halkı” ya da “Salar yerlileri” anlamına gelmektedir. 13. yüzyıldan kalma Çin kayıtları Salarlardan Sala (Yuan), Şala, Salan (Ming), Sala ve Salaer (Çing) gibi değişik adlarla söz eder. Salarların kendi dillerini adlandırmaları salırça ya da sala(r) gaça sala kahça şeklindedir. Dilbilimsel Durum Salarların yüzde kaçının Salarcayı ilk dil olarak kullandığı ve Salar dili konuşurlarının Salarcayı ne kadar karşılıklı iletişimde kullandıkları net değildir. Ancak son 30 yılda Salar dilini konuşanların sayısının azaldığı açıktır.
    [Show full text]
  • Salar Music and Identity: a "Sad" Sound a Master's Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty Liberty University By
    SALAR MUSIC AND IDENTITY: A "SAD" SOUND A MASTER'S THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BY ELIZABETH RUTH KEATING IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ETHNOMUSICOLOGY December 8, 2016 Copyright 2016 by Elizabeth Keating CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................. ii ILLUSTRATIONS ........................................................................................................................ v Chapter I: Introduction ................................................................................................................ 1 Why Research ..................................................................................................................... 1 Statement of the Problem ........................................................................................ 2 Need for the Study ................................................................................................... 3 Research Questions ............................................................................................................. 4 Limitations and Assumptions of the Study ......................................................................... 5 Chapter II: Literature Review ..................................................................................................... 7 Introduction ........................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • List of Publications
    LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 2016 Altuigurische Aparimitāyus-Literatur und kleinere tantrische Texte. (Berliner Turfantexte XXXVI). Turnhout: Brepols, 234 Pp. + 10 Plates. Gudai Weiwueryu zanshi he miaoxiexing shige de yuwenxue yanjiu [Old Uyghur hymns and praises]. Shanghai: Shanghai Classics, XIV + 482 Pp. + 50 Plates. 2015 Gudai Weiwueryu zanshi he miaoxiexing shige de yuwenxue yanjiu [Old Uyghur hymns and praises]. Shanghai: Shanghai Classics, XIV + 482 Pp. + 50 Plates. [With Masahiro Shōgaito, Setsu Fujishiro, Noriko Ohsaki and Mutsumi Sugahara] The Berlin Chinese text U 5335 written in Uighur script. A reconstruction of the Inherited Uighur Pronunciation of Chinese. (Berliner Turfantexte XXXIV.) Turnhout: Brepols, 208 Pp. + 7 Plates. 2010 Prajñāpāramitā Literature in Old Uyghur. (Berliner Turfantexte XXVIII.) Turnhout: Brepols, 319 Pp. + 23 Plates. 2009 Alttürkische Handschriften Teil 15: Die uigurischen Blockdrucke der Berliner Turfansammlung. Teil 3: Stabreimdichtungen, Kalendarisches, Bilder, unbestimmte Fragmente und Nachträge. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. XIII 23.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 309 Pp. 2008 Alttürkische Handschriften Teil 12: Die uigurischen Blockdrucke der Berliner Turfansammlung. Teil 2: Apokryphen, Mahāyāna-Sūtren, Erzählungen, Magische Texte, Kommentare und Kolophone. (Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, Bd. XIII 20.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 264 Pp. 2007 Alttürkische Handschriften. Teil 11: Die uigurischen Blockdrucke der Berliner Turfansammlung. Teil 1: Tantrische Texte (VOHD XIII,19.). Beschrieben von Abdurishid Yakup und M. Knüppel. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 258 Pp. [Catalogue, technical remarks, blibliography and indexes (Pp. 27-258) are by A. Yakup] 2006 Dišastvustik: Eine altuigurische Bearbeitung einer Legende aus dem Catuṣpariṣat-sūtra. (Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 71.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. VIII + 176 Pp. 2005 The Turfan dialect of Uyghur.
    [Show full text]
  • World Bank Document
    IPP689 World Bank-financed Xining Water Environment Management Project Public Disclosure Authorized Ethnic Minority Development Framework Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Management Office of the World Bank-financed Xining Water Environment Management Project Xining, Qinghai, China October 2013 Public Disclosure Authorized Contents 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 2 1.1 Background of the Project .................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Components ......................................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Purpose of Preparing this EMDF ......................................................................................... 3 2. Approval and Implementation of the EMDP ...................................................................... 4 2.1 Identification and Screening of Minority ............................................................................... 4 2.2Social Assessment ................................................................................................................ 4 2.3 Preparation of the EMDP ..................................................................................................... 5 2.4 Approval of the EMDP .......................................................................................................... 6 2.5 Implementation
    [Show full text]
  • Socioeconomic Change and Language Endangerment
    SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE AND LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT BY Ma, Wei B.S., Qinghai Normal University, China, 1993 Submitted to the Department of Anthropology and the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master’s of Arts, 2007 ____________________ Chairperson Committee members ____________________ _____________________ Date defended: ______________ The Thesis Committee for Ma, Wei certifies that this is the approved version of the following thesis: SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE AND LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT Committee: ________________________________ Chairperson _______________________________ _______________________________ Date approved:_______________________ Abstract Language endangerment is acute in the world. In China Salar (ISO 639-3: SLR) is one of those language that is endangered. There are several different hypotheses for the causes of language endangerment; to better understand why so many languages are declining, I analyze the Salar case in this study. Based on a literature review and fieldwork in 1999-2005 and the summer of 2006, I conclude that the endangerment of Salar language appears to be caused less by prestige and literacy factors, and more by socioeconomic factors. Finally, I give recommendations for Salar revitalization. III Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION…………………………………...………………1 1.1 Language Endangerment and the Salar Case…..………………………….…1 1.2 The Salars………………………………..……………...……………………2 CHAPTER 2: LANGUAGE ENDANGERMENT LITERATURE AND HYPOTHESIS…………………………………………………………………..3
    [Show full text]
  • Çin Halk Cumhuriyrti Qinghai Eyaletinde Yaşayan Salirlarin Günümüzdeki Kültürü
    T.C. İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ ANTROPOLOJİ ANABİLİM DALI YÜKSEK LİSANS TEZİ ÇİN HALK CUMHURİYRTİ QİNGHAİ EYALETİNDE YAŞAYAN SALIRLARIN GÜNÜMÜZDEKİ KÜLTÜRÜ XIAOXUAN MA 2501141384 TEZ DANIŞMANI Dr. Öğr.Üyesi.Rabia Ebrar AKINCI İSTANBUL, 2019 ÖZ ÇİN HALK CUMHURİYETİ QİNGHAİ EYALETİNDE YAŞAYAN SALIRLARIN GÜNÜMÜZDEKİ KÜLTÜRÜ XIAOXUAN MA Dünyadaki Türk dilli topluluklar içinde belki de en az bilinen “Salır”topluluğudur. Türkiye’de de Çin’deki Salırlar hakkında sınırlı sayıda araştırma ve dokümantasyon bulunmaktadır. 14.Yüzyılda Salırların atalarının Orta Asya’dan Çin’e göç etmesinden sonraki 700 yıl boyunca da haklarında çok az bilgi kaydedilmiştir. Bu nedenle, bu çalışma, Çin Halk CumhuriyetiQing Hai Eylati’nde yaşayan Salır grubunu ve kültürünü etnografik açıdan yorumlamayı hedeflemektedir. Bu tez çalışması saha araştırmasına dayanmaktadır ve sahada toplanan verilerden yola çıkarak tez konusu açıklanmaya çalışılacaktır. Tezin içeriği, Çin halk Cumhuriyeti’nin Qing Hai Eyaleti’ne bağlı Xunhua Salır Otonom İlçesi’nde yaşayan Salar etnik grubunun, günümüzdeki kültürünü, kültürel değişim dinemiklerini anlamak için din, dil ve gündelik yaşamının özelliklerini ele almaktadır. Ayrıca Salırların küreselleşme sürecinde kültürel kimlik bilincinin şekillenmesi, karşı karşıya kaldıkları kimlik krizi ile geleneksellik ve modernlik arasında tutumlarına yer verildi. Anahatar Kelimler: Çin Halk Cumhuriyeti, Xunhua Salır Otonom İlçesi Salırlar,Salır Kültürü ,Etnik Kimlik , ii ABSTRACT THE CURRENT CULTURE OF THE SALAR WHO LIVING IN QINGHAI PROVINCE IN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Among the world’s Turkic people, perhaps the least known is the “Salır” (Salar) people living in People’s Republic of China. Researches and publications on Salars of China is also limited in Turkey. Around the 14th century, the ancestors of the Salar migrated from Central Asia to China.
    [Show full text]
  • Appendix 1. a Brief Description of China's 56 Ethnic Groups
    Appendix 1. A Brief Description of China’s 56 Ethnic Groups Throughout history, race, language and religion have divided China as much as physical terrain, political fiat and conquest.1 However, it is always a politically sensitive issue to identify those non-Han people as different ethnic groups. As a result, the total number of ethnic groups has never been fixed precisely in China. For example, in 1953, only 42 ethnic peoples were identified, while the number increased to 54 in 1964 and 56 in 1982. Of course, this does not include the unknown ethnic groups as well as foreigners with Chinese citizenship.2 Specifically, China’s current 56 ethnic groups are, in alphabetical order, Achang, Bai, Baonan, Blang, Buyi, Dai, Daur, Deang, Derung, Dong, Dongxiang, Ewenki, Gaoshan, Gelao, Han, Hani, Hezhe, Hui, Jing, Jingpo, Jino, Kazak, Kirgiz, Korean, Lahu, Lhoba, Li, Lisu, Manchu, 1 The text is prepared by Rongxing Guo based on the following sources: (i) The Ethnic Minorities in China (title in Chinese: “zhongguo shaoshu minzu”, edited by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission (SEAC) of the People’s Republic of China and published in 2010 by the Central Nationality University Press, Beijing) and (ii) the introductory text of China’s 56 ethnic groups (in Chinese, available at http://www.seac.gov.cn/col/col107/index.html, accessed on 2016–06–20). 2 As of 2010, when the Sixth National Population Census of the People’s Republic of China was conducted, the populations of the unknown ethnic groups and foreigners with Chinese citizenship were 640,101 and 1448, respectively.
    [Show full text]
  • Exiled by Definition: the Salar of Northwest China1
    1 Exiled by Definition: The Salar of Northwest China David S G Goodman, University of Technology, Sydney The scene at the crossroads seems typical of anywhere in Central Asia. The air is arid; walls and sidewalks are made of pressed mud; the sandy dust eddies and swirls down the road. The streetscape is unmistakeably Turkic and Islamic. Along the road from a mosque, on one side of the cross-street leading into the junction is a row of explicitly Halal eateries. Outside, at stools, the customers are all men, most sporting embroidered hats and prolific beards. Round the corner are a number of hardware and motor vehicle repair shops, with outside, younger men sitting around on motorcycles, smoking. Women almost invariably wear a black headscarf, and have their arms, legs and shoulders also clothed. If accompanying their husbands, they walk at a discreet distance behind. At the crossroads itself, there are rows of shaded stalls where open- air butchers have legs and shoulders of lamb hanging on hooks in full view, the blood dripping onto the ground. Opposite, dry farming vegetables—chillies, capsicums, cabbage—are on sale from the backs of trucks. Despite appearances, the location is Central China rather than Central Asia. It is the market crossroads at Gaizi (Jiezi)2 the largest town in the Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai Province, though not its administrative centre.3 As a map of the 1 The research presented in this paper could not have been achieved without the cooperation and assistance of many local people in Xunhua County. Their participation in this research project is gratefully acknowledged.
    [Show full text]
  • Qaidam Basin
    Qaidam Basin Spread across the vast territory of China are hundreds of basins, where developed sedimentary rocks originated from the Paleozoic to the Cenozoic eras, covering over four million square kilometers. Abundant oil and gas resources are entrapped in strata ranging from the eldest Sinian Suberathem to the youngest quaternary system. The most important petroliferous basins in China include Tarim, Junggar, Turpan, Qaidam, Ordos, Songliao, Bohai Bay, Erlian, Sichuan, North Tibet, South Huabei and Jianghan basins. There are also over ten mid- to-large sedimentary basins along the extensive sea area of China, with those rich in oil and gas include the South Yellow Sea, East Sea, Zhujiangkou and North Bay basins. These basins, endowing tremendous hydrocarbon resources with various genesis and geologic features, have nurtured splendid civilizations with distinctive characteristics portrayed by unique natural landscape, specialties, local culture, and the people. In China, CNPC’s oil and gas operations mainly focus in nine petroliferous basins, namely Tarim, Junggar, Turpan, Ordos, Qaidam, Songliao, Erlian, Sichuan, and the Bohai Bay. More than 1 billion years ago, Qaidam Basin was an integral part of North China geologic unit. At Qaidam Basin is China’s highest and the beginning of the Eopaleozoic era (about 560 most evaporative inland basin situated million years ago), it was separated and surrounded in the border area of the provinces of by shallow sea as a result of plate disintegration. Qinghai, Gansu and the autonomous At the end of the Eopaleozoic era (about 400 region of Xinjiang. The basin lies in a million years ago), the basin began to uplift due crescent valley surrounded by plateaus to the intense tectonic movement caused by plate and the mountains of Altyn-Tagh, Qilian subduction and collision, and later became a land and Kunlun.
    [Show full text]
  • Specific Flag Days
    Specific flag days Country/Territory/Continent Date Details Afghanistan August 19 Independence day, 1919. Albania November 28 Independence day, 1912. Anniversary of the death of Manuel Belgrano, who created the Argentina June 20 current flag. Aruba March 18 Flag day. Adoption of the national flag on March 18, 1976. Australian National Flag Day commemorates the first flying of Australia September 3 the Australian National Flag in 1901. State Flag Day, was officially established in 2009, for the Azerbaijan November 9 commemoration of the adoption of the Flag of Azerbaijan on November 9, 1918. Åland Last Sunday of April Commemorates adoption of the Åland flag Flag Day in Bolivia. Commemorates of the creation of the first August 17 Bolivia national flag. Brazil November 19 Flag Day in Brazil; adopted in 1889 Canada National Flag of Canada Day commemorates adoption of the February 15 Canadian flag, Feb. 15, 1965. January 21[4][5] Québec Flag Day (French: Jour du Drapeau) commemorates Quebec the first flying of the flag of Quebec, January 21, 1948. July 20 Declaration of Independence (1810) (Celebrated as National Colombia August 7 Day); Battle of Boyaca (1819) Dia di Bandera ("Day of the Flag"). Adoption of the national July 2 Curaçao flag on 2 July 1984. Anniversary of the Battle of Valdemar in 1219 in Lyndanisse, Estonia, where according to legend, the ("Dannebrog") fell Denmark June 15 from the sky. It is also the anniversary of the return of North Slesvig in 1920 to Denmark following the post-World War I plebiscite. "Day of the National Flag" ("Dia de la Bandera Nacional").
    [Show full text]