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Artux treats the oasis plain of Artux City, in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, as a cannabis growing area. It sits in the Southern Xinjiang growing region, beside the Kashgar and Akto growing areas.
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Why the area is on the map
- Artux police (阿图什警讯, 28 July 2022): 41 cannabis plants interplanted in a maize field at Suntagh (松他克) town, uprooted on 27 July 2022.
- 九派新闻 (17 January 2024): a man in Artux grew cannabis at home from the end of June 2023 and smoked the leaves; 41 g found.
These are reports of cannabis grown in the named city and town. No older source read names Artux for cannabis, and none places cultivation in a particular part of the city beyond Suntagh.
Growing status
The status is Active: the police reports describe cannabis grown in Artux City in 2022 and 2023. No source read says that growing there has ended.
How the border is drawn
- The border outlines the oasis on the plain of Artux City (OpenStreetMap relation 2710651), the county-level city the police reports name, round the city and Suntagh, north of Kashgar. It takes the land that the ESA WorldCover 2021 land-cover map classes as cropland or built-up. Gaps of up to about 6 km are closed so that fields, orchards, villages and towns join into one oasis, and holes inside it are filled. The result is one part of about 1,700 km², the figure in the infobox; the city as a whole is about 15,500 km², most of it mountain and gravel.
- The city's other farmland lies in the foothills of the Tian Shan: the basin of Halajun (哈拉峻, about 850 km²) and nine smaller valleys. They are left out, because no case read places growing in them.
- The border lies inside the Southern Xinjiang border and does not overlap the Kashgar or Akto borders.
- The land-cover map shows where fields and settlements were in 2021. It is not evidence of where cannabis is or was grown; the places the sources name are given in the article.
- The border is not drawn from accession or news points. Check points: Artux city and Suntagh inside; Kashgar city and Akto town outside.
- Land cover: ESA WorldCover 2021 (version 200, 10 m), © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium, licensed CC BY 4.0 (esa-worldcover.org).
The name
The page takes the modern form of the name, Artux. Artush and Atush, spellings found in English sources, redirect here. The Chinese name is Atushi (阿图什).
Sources
- Artux police (2022): the WeChat article of 阿图什警讯, read in full; WeChat gives no stable link to it, so the citation names the account, title and date.
- 九派新闻 (2024): read in full on 腾讯新闻.
Sources not used
- A second Artux police article of September 2022 (13 plants grown at a home) could not be found again to check, and is not cited.
- A video page of August 2026 headed "男子棉田私种10株大麻落网（阿图什公安）" (a man caught for growing 10 cannabis plants in a cotton field) carries only the headline; it is not cited.