Yopurga

Proper noun

Yopurga

1. A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • In Yopurga County, the enrollment and consolidation rates for school-age children are 98 percent, while the rate for the elimination of illiteracy in the 12-to-40 age group exceeds 96 percent. The county has been certified by the People's Autonomous Region Government as Xinjiang’s best county at...1986 January 24 [1985 August 15], “Reform of Minority Nationality Education Discussed”, in China Report, Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, pages...
   • The Yopurga district [southeast of Kaxgar] had a grain surplus from the fifties up to the sixties; it was able to transfer 5 to 6 million jin and often as much as 7 million jin of cereals [2,500—3,500 tonnes] to other places. The arable land of the whole district is now completely salinized. Since...1987, T. Hoppe, edited by Bernhard Glaeser, Learning from China? Development and Environment in Third World Countries, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63

   Synonyms:

   Yuepuhu, Yüeh-p'u-hu, Yopuho