Urumqi riot brings inconvenience, loss to other city in Xinjiang

Jul 11th, 2009 - XinHua

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YINING, Xinjiang, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Halimlarti stared at the empty Errean Ethnic Park, shook his head and sighed.

"No visitor has come to our park by now today," Halimlarti said, pointing to an empty outdoor restaurant that accommodates about 200 visitors at time, "We feel personally the impact of the riot in Urumqi though it happened hundreds of kilometers away."

But for the fatal violence in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it would have been the park's busiest time in a year, said Halimlarti, the park's assistant manager.

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