Jiya

jiya jiyą́ jīyā jíya English + Township Etymology From en ug جىيا. Pronunciation en Proper noun en township county-level city/Hotan City prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en 2017-08-15 Ma Kai Atlas silk Etles silk production craft revived in China's Xinjiang An w:Xinhua News Agency https://web.archive.org/web/20190803010012/http://www.xinhuanet.com//english/2017-08/15/c_136526215.htm August 3, 2019 Women work in an Etles silk mill in Jiya Town of Hotan City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 8, 2017. Etles silk, with a history of more than a thousand years in Hotan City, is regarded as the witness of the cultural mixture between China and the neighboring countries as it illustrates a perfect combination of Chinese silk production technique and surrounding central Asian countries' patterning. The production of the EltesEtles silk is now regaining its momentum as the local government invests more resources into the sector to revive the once vanishing craft. About 6,000 families in the Jiya Town are capable of producing the silk which brings 1,200 yuan (about 180 US dollars) extra income per capita for the local residents. en November 08, 2018 Who Are the Uighurs? w:Voice of America https://web.archive.org/web/20200112212222/https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/who-are-uighurs January 12, 2020 East Asia Pacific An ethnic Uighur man looks on at the cemetery surrounding the tomb of Imam Asim in the Taklamakan Desert outside the village of Jiya near Hotan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, March 21, 2017. en Translations township Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 吉亞 Jíyà, Jíyǎ Japanese: ja Korean: ko Uyghur: ug جىيا Cyrillic: ug Җия Latin: ug Jiya