Management rules in force for the "information corps" in a residential district in Usu city, Tacheng (Tarbaghatay) district, included requirements to immediately report scenarios such as the presence of "people from outside [the district] abnormally wearing large beards or veiling their faces" along with "residents holding extremist religious thoughts."

For thousands of years, for the herdsmen of the Majike who lived in the deep pastures of Tianshan, Tabulehete town, Usu city; where the horseshoes stepped, were where the road was. The distance between the town and the county is only 50 km; however, a number of people dwelled in the mountains, and have never even been to the county for their whole life. In September 2004, when the road, from Usu city to the Jialake village, Bulehete town, was finished and the first bus reached, the villagers rushed about telling the news and shouted “Long live the Communist Party”, as joyful as when in the New Year or other festivals, for they saw the asphalt road for the first time.

GOING HI-TECH
Last year, a large-scale bio-based plant went into operation in Usu City to turn corn into nylon. The Cathay Industrial Biotech, a Shanghai-based biotech company, is the investor.
Nylon is usually made from petroleum, and the use of crops such as corn and wheat to make recyclable and environment-friendly nylon has promising business prospects, said Wang Hongbo, vice general manager of the company's Usu branch.
The Usu branch will have an annual output of 100,000 tons of bio-based polyamide, and it is expected to boost the development of downstream industries in the future, he said.

The Baiyanggou mud volcano is located 43 km south of Usu City.

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