有人把祖国的版图比作一只向东站立的雄鸡,长着丰满美丽羽毛的雄鸡尾部,就是新疆维吾尔自,台区。这里生活着维吾尔、汉、哈萨克、回、蒙古、柯尔克孜、锡伯、塔吉克等民族1800万人,土地面积是全国的1╱6。新疆地处欧亚大陆的中心,与蒙古、俄罗斯、哈萨克斯坦、吉尔吉斯斯坦、塔吉克斯坦、阿富汗等国接壤,边境线长达5400余公里。古代丝绸之路差不多一半在新疆境内。 Some people compared the territory of the motherland to a rooster standing eastward, with the tail of a rooster plump and beautiful with feathers, that is, Xinjiang Uygur and Taiwan. There are 18 million ethnic people such as Uyghur, Han, Kazak, Hui, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Xibe and Tajikistan, and the land area is 1/6 of the country. Xinjiang is located in the center of Eurasia, with Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and other countries bordering the border line of up to 5400 kilometers. Almost half of the ancient Silk Road is in Xinjiang.