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About Taklamakan-359th Brigade Cultural Tourism Area
The regional culture and tourism department lists the area among the region's national 5A-grade scenic areas. Its page describes the area as centred on the 359th Brigade reclamation memorial hall, presenting the Corps' frontier-reclamation and border-defence culture and patriotic education, as a window on Aral City and the Corps' construction achievements, and as an important red-tourism base of the XPCC. The memorial hall itself was built to commemorate the Xinjiang Military District's First Agricultural Construction Division, which advanced into Xinjiang in 1950.
Xinhua records that the memorial hall was completed on 26 September 2009 and describes it as one of north-west China's largest revolutionary memorial halls. It has ten exhibition halls, among them 'Reclamation in the Western Regions, a Long History', 'A Heroic Force of Outstanding Merit', 'A Construction Army of Brilliant Achievement', 'Arduous Pioneering on the Wasteland', 'From All Quarters, Into the Corps', 'Mainstay and Iron Wall', 'Building Cities, Painting Home', 'Building Harmony, Heading for Comfort', 'Reclamation in the Western Regions, Through the Ages' and 'The Radio Wave That Never Fades', presenting the history of Corps units building modern farms and towns at the desert's edge.
The hall has been designated, among other things, a national 4A-grade scenic area, a patriotic-education base, a national ethnic-unity progress education base and one of the second batch of red-tourism bases — an open list. The 4A designation attaches to the hall in Xinhua's 2019 account, while the 5A listing attaches to the wider cultural tourism area in the department's 2022 register entry; the record states the two separately.
What to look for
- The 359th Brigade reclamation memorial hall, completed on 26 September 2009
- The hall's ten exhibition halls, including 'Reclamation in the Western Regions, a Long History' and 'The Radio Wave That Never Fades'
- The wider cultural tourism area listed by the regional department as a national 5A-grade scenic area
Location & getting there
Getting to Taklamakan-359th Brigade Cultural Tourism Area
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- Search for 塔克拉玛干·三五九旅文化旅游区 with 新疆生产建设兵团 and 阿拉尔市（第一师）.
Find Taklamakan-359th Brigade Cultural Tourism Area
塔克拉玛干·三五九旅文化旅游区 · 阿拉尔市（第一师）
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Sources & visit information
The linked sources support the identity and background described in this introduction. Opening hours, admission, activity availability and exact arrival arrangements have not been comprehensively checked. Confirm current visitor information with the venue; the original catalogue locality and editorial review flag are retained.