Piqan County is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Hami Prefecture

Hami Prefecture

Kumul Prefecture, also known as Hami Prefecture is located in eastern Xinjiang, China. It has an area of 140,749 km² and 492,096 inhabitants .- History :...

. It contains an area of 39,548 km². According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 210,000.

On January 6, 2009, five well-preserved mummies of ethnic Han

Han Chinese

Han Chinese are an ethnic group native to China and are the largest single ethnic group in the world.Han Chinese constitute about 92% of the population of the People's Republic of China , 98% of the population of the Republic of China , 78% of the population of Singapore, and about 20% of the...

 men who lived during the Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

 were excavated at a construction site near the Flaming Mountains

Flaming Mountains

The Flaming Mountains or Gaochang Mountains are barren, eroded, red sandstone hills in Tian Shan Mountain range, Xinjiang, China. They lie near the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert and east of the city of Turpan...

 in the county .

Transportation

Shanshan is served by China National Highway 312

China National Highway 312

China National Highway 312 , also referred to as Route 312 or The Mother Road, is an important highway that runs east-west across the breadth of People's Republic of China. It begins at the port city Shanghai and ends at Khorgas in the Ili River valley, on the border with Kazakhstan. In total it...

 and the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway.