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| Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County is 400 kilometers west of Kashgar city. | |
| It is located on the roof of the world, the Pamirs Plateau and along the | |
| ancient Silk Road. Taxkorgan in Tajik means "The Stone city" | |
| It was so named because the Stone City is just 100 meters away from Taxkorgan Tajik | |
| Autonomous County, | |
| The history of the City can be traced back to Han Dynasty about 2000 years ago. | |
| It was the Capital City of the Puli Kingdom,one of the 36 states in Western Region | |
| under the jurisdiction of Han Dynasty.It had small scale at that time.It had been gradually | |
| expanded during the Wei and Jin Dynasty. After Tang Dynasty had united the Western | |
| Region,The Pamirs military office were set up here.At the beginning of The Yuan Dynasty | |
| ,the people went in for large-scale construction to build the city.During the Guangxu's reign | |
| in the Qing Dynasty,The Puli Office had been set up and the City was restored once again to | |
| to the scale we see the present day. | |
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