There were multiple battles of Urumqi, several took place in the 1870s during the Dungan revolt During the Kumul Rebellion, the first one fought in the spring of 1933, and the second one fought from December 1933 to January 1934.
It is the Beijing terminal for most trains leaving the city for destinations in western and southwestern China, including Xi'an, Chongqing, Chengdu, Lhasa and Urumqi.
After the incident the special administrative chiefs Donald Tsang and Fernando Chui met Li Keqiang in Urumqi for the China-Eurasia Expo meeting, and HK journalists were no longer allowed near Li anymore.
The decision not to adopt pinyin names after the handover to China appears to be consistent with the usual PRC policy of respecting the local linguistic traditions in the romanized version of names, as in other non-pinyin names like Lhasa, Ürümqi or Hohhot, for example.
Hong Shan (Pinyin : Hóng Shān, Red Mountain), an inner city mountain in Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China