On August 21, the Southern Xinjiang Administrative Office was established at Kazgar, with jurisdiction over the Aksu, Kazgar, Xiache, and Hetian Special Districts and the newly established Kizilsu A.Z. and Tash Kurghan A.X.
1985, 《中国手册》编辑委员会 [China Handbook Editorial Committee], translated by Chen Zhucai, 社会生活 [Life and Lifestyles] (《中国手册》 [China Handbook Series])[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61:
The Kirgizs. This nationality has a population of 113,999, of which about 80 per cent live in close communities in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in the southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
1990 April 23, “Beijing Reports 22 Deaths In Revolt in Western Region”, in The New York Times[3], archived from the original on 25 May 2015[4]:
Xinjiang provincial television said in a broadcast from Urumqi, the regional capital, that a revolt by a "small number of ruffians" was put down in the town of Baren in the Kizilsu Kirghiz autonomous prefecture on April 5 and 6.
The semi-nomadic Kyrgyz are spread throughout western and southern Xinjiang, but there is a significant concentration in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, set in the foothills of the Tianshan range which separates them from their kin in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. Most Kyrgyz are herdsmen, tending flocks of sheep and camels and, like the Kazakhs, they moved their animals across the mountains according to the season until the Sino-Soviet dispute closed the border. Their language and customs are closely related to those of their Kazakh neighbours.
Then, finally, my chance came to leave Kashgar and travel with the tour group to a picturesque lake that just happened to be within the mountainous Kizilsu-Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, southwest of Kashgar.
An awkward silence persisted in the corridor of level six of the Artux People’s Hospital in Kizilsu Prefecture until at last the lone woman in the group finally spoke.
2020, “Update: No casualties reported after 5.0-magnitude quake hits Xinjiang”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[9], archived from the original on 07 September 2021[10]:
A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Wuqia county of Kizilsu prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at 6:51 p.m. Wednesday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
2020 June 1, “Infinitus supports poverty alleviation in four areas of Southern Xinjiang”, in AP News[11], archived from the original on 17 May 2022[12]:
Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture is known as the Prefecture of Mountains as mountains make up over 95% of the region’s geography. The transportation condition limits local residents to travel, even to the nearest city, Kashgar, despite the distance of the two cities are only a dozen kilometers.
2020, “Argali sheep rescued by border guard police in Xinjiang”, in CGTN[13], archived from the original on 07 September 2021[14]:
A border guard police unit rescued a trapped argali sheep during a routine night patrol on Sunday in Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
[2022 September 7, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service, Farangis Najibullah, “Kyrgyz Woman From China Still Lives In Fear After Leaving Xinjiang”, in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty[15], archived from the original on 07 September 2022[16]:
Aigul, who was born and raised in Xinjiang's Kyzylsuu Kyrgyz autonomous region, says all her cellmates were ethnic Kyrgyz.[…] But when she came back to China the following year to visit her family in Kyzylsuu Kyrgyz, Aigul was interrogated by local authorities several times.]
