Xinjiang Urumqi Ancient Ecology Park – China’s Akhal-Teke Horse Base
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Xinjiang Ancient Ecology Park, located in the northwest of Carp Hill Park, High-tech District, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, is hidden in the city and seeks tranquility amidst the hustle and bustle. The scenic area covers an area of 200 acres with four distinct seasons, each offering unique wonders. It aims to protect Xinjiang’s non-renewable paleontological species resources, develop and promote Xinjiang’s ancient ecological culture. It brings together and protects the unique paleontological species found in Xinjiang’s ‘three mountains and two basins’ geological landscape. Through landscape art techniques, it maximizes the imitation of nature and the playback of nature’s original appearance, recreating the ancient Silk Road civilization and showcasing the unique culture of the Western Regions. The park houses China’s largest Akhal-Teke horse display base, the Yema Art Museum, which collects oil paintings from renowned artists both domestically and internationally, as well as the Jurassic Silicified Wood Protection Base, Silk Road Science Museum, Silk Road Historical Figures Memorial Hall, Silk Road Art Boutique Museum, etc. It integrates ecological tourism, cultural tracing, and folklore experience, gathering rare natural relics of the Western Regions and the essence of human culture from ancient and modern Silk Road in one park. The scenic area is located in the center of Urumqi, with convenient transportation facilities surrounding it. It offers Chinese, Western, and Qing-style cuisine, as well as six themed dining options such as fine wine and tea houses. There is also the Silk Road Post Cultural Theme Salon, adjacent to the ancient park and awarded the title of ‘China’s Top Ten Cultural Theme Hotels’, with unique styles and layouts. The Yema Inn hidden in the ancient park is simple and natural, making visitors reluctant to leave. It has become a tourist attraction for Silk Road cultural tourism, a landmark for Xinjiang cultural tourism, and a must-visit destination for experiencing the culture of the Western Regions.
China Akhal-Teke Horse Base
Located in the center of Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, and on the south side of the Ancient Ecology Park scenic area, the China Akhal-Teke Horse Base is China’s only standardized, international, and comprehensive base that integrates Akhal-Teke horse breeding, display, training, performance competitions, equestrian fitness, leisure, and vacationing. The base has imported over 100 purebred Akhal-Teke horses from Central Asia, all certified by the Russian Akhal-Teke Horse Certification Agency. It currently has 2 international senior equestrian coaches, 26 riders, and nearly 100 staff members. Occupying an area of over 40,000 square meters with an investment of 300 million yuan, the base has built a nearly 6,000-square-meter outdoor racecourse, a nearly 3,000-square-meter indoor racecourse, and 2 open-air racecourses of nearly 1,000 square meters each, as well as professional facilities such as horse training rings, obstacle courses, and horse swimming pools. It can meet the training requirements of various equestrian events and has the capacity to host large-scale national and even international equestrian competitions.
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Yema Art Museum
The Yema Art Museum, built in 2010, is the only large art museum in China representing the Western Regions painting school. The museum covers an area of 3,200 square meters and has a total of 8 themed exhibition halls, displaying over 600 works by renowned oil painters from Central Asia and China. Additionally, there is a 600-square-meter oil painting studio where paintings can be viewed, collected, rented, and customized.
Yema Art Museum
Jurassic Silicified Wood Protection Base
The Ancient Ecology Park in Xinjiang has nearly 300 silicified woods, making it the world’s largest concentrated protection base for Jurassic silicified woods.
The silicified woods in Xinjiang are mainly distributed on the vast Gobi deserts of the three counties of Qitai, Mulei, and Jimusal. Since the discovery of silicified woods in Xinjiang in the 1980s, it has caused a large number of illegal mining and excavation activities, prompting the government to initiate conservation efforts. However, due to the presence of silicified woods in the vast Gobi desert, protecting them requires a significant amount of manpower, material resources, and energy. Therefore, the scenic area responded to the government’s policy of off-site protection by opening up an area within the park for conservation and opening it to the public, making it easier for more people to appreciate these Gobi treasures.
From 70 million to 200 million years ago, during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, the Earth was young and restless, with tectonic movements rising and falling. Thick and lush Araucaria, pine, cypress, ginkgo, and birch trees grew here carefree for countless years. However, one sudden morning, a volcano erupted, burying the vast forest underwater in an instant. The large trees in the forest, due to the sudden intense heat, were carbonized before they could be burned, and when they sank into the seabed, they happened to encounter a silicon-rich layer with abundant silicon dioxide liquid. These omnipresent liquids quickly infiltrated the carbonized tree trunks under extreme pressure. At this moment, the large trees were the molds, and silicon dioxide was the filler. They were completely fused into one during the instant of the volcanic eruption and buried under the vacuum seabed for hundreds of millions of years, eventually becoming silicified woods.
Silicified woods are often called "petrified wood" because they still retain residual wooden structures, and are also known as "tree fossils" or "tree jade". This is because they not only possess the beauty of fossils but also the beauty of peculiar stones and jade, condensing the essence of the earth and mountains, with an antique and natural charm.
These silicified woods in Xinjiang Ancient Ecology Park, China, according to expert research, are approximately 160 million years old, dating back to the Jurassic period when dinosaurs dominated. The current deserts of Xinjiang were once lush and green, with forests everywhere and clear lakes, and these silicified woods are good proof of that.
Location of Xinjiang Ancient Ecology Park:
Xinjiang Ancient Ecology Park is located in the northwest of Carp Hill, Urumqi High-tech Industrial Development Zone (New Urban Area), Xinjiang, China.
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Scenic Area Features and Visiting Content: Xinjiang Ancient Ecology Park is located on Carp Hill in Urumqi City, with a total investment of 2 billion yuan. It is the only cultural tourism park in Urumqi City and also the only cultural industry demonstration base of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In November 2018, it was rated as a social practice education base for primary and middle school students nationwide by the Ministry of Education. The visiting content includes the world’s largest Akhal-Teke horse base, ancient silicified wood forests from the Jurassic period, a thousand-year-old Populus euphratica forest, Przewalski’s horses, the "National Memory in the Eyes of Grooms" exhibition hall, the Horse Culture Museum, the "Xinjiang Memory in the Eyes of Grooms" exhibition hall, the Yema Art Museum (four exhibition halls), the Xinjiang Celebrity Hall, and the Longma Martial Arts Hall. Scenic Area Features and Visiting Content: Xinjiang Ancient Ecology Park is located on Carp Hill in Urumqi City, with a total investment of 2 billion yuan. It is the only cultural tourism park in Urumqi City and also the only cultural industry demonstration base of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. In November 2018, it was rated as a social practice education base for primary and middle school students nationwide by the Ministry of Education. The visiting content includes the world’s largest Akhal-Teke horse base, ancient silicified wood forests from the Jurassic period, a thousand-year-old Populus euphratica forest, Przewalski’s horses, the "National Memory in the Eyes of Grooms" exhibition hall, the Horse Culture Museum, the "Xinjiang Memory in the Eyes of Grooms" exhibition hall, the Yema Art Museum (four exhibition halls), the Xinjiang Celebrity Hall, and the Longma Martial Arts Hall.
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