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Line 582: Following the [[July 2009 Ürümqi riots]], the government focused on local economic development in an attempt to ameliorate ethnic tensions in the greater Xinjiang region. Kashgar was made into a [[Special economic zone of the People's Republic of China|Special Economic Zone]] in 2010, the first such zone in China's far west. In 2011, a [[2011 Kashgar attacks|spate of violence]] over two days killed dozens of people. By May 2012, two-thirds of the old city had been demolished, which, according to critics, was done partially in order to fulfill the political goal of eroding Uyghur culture. According to the Chinese government, demolition and rebuilding was necessary because the entire Kashgar area was "in a special area in danger of earthquakes." Over the last two decades, similar demolition of historic architecture followed by their replacement with "shopping malls and highways" have also been ongoing in the rest of China, often with inadequate consultation of local residents.<ref>Nick Holdstock, "[http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/05/25/nick-holdstock/razing-kashgar/ Razing Kashgar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529050643/http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2012/05/25/nick-holdstock/razing-kashgar/ |date=2012-05-29 }}," LRB blog, ''London Review of Books'', 25 May 2012.</ref> Critics have called the destruction of the old city part of a campaign of [[ On 21 October 2014, [[Aqqash Township]] (Akekashi) was transferred from [[Shufu County]] to Kashgar.<ref name="xzqhkonaxahar">{{cite web|url=http://www.xzqh.org/html/show/xj/21330.html|script-title=zh:疏附县历史沿革|website=XZQH.org|date=14 November 2014|access-date=5 April 2020|quote={{lang|zh-hans|2014年，自治区政府（新政函[2014]8号）同意撤销乌帕尔乡，设立乌帕尔镇。2014年10月21日，自治区政府（新政函[2014]194号）同意将疏附县阿克喀什乡划归喀什市管辖。}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108185411/http://www.xzqh.org/html/show/xj/21330.html|archive-date=8 November 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||