Which city does Urumqi Laomancheng refer to?

Gongning City was the place where the governor of Urumqi, the minister’s office, and the Eight Banners officers and troops were stationed in the Qing Dynasty. It is commonly known as "Old Mancheng". Now only the west and south city walls remain. The ruins of the city wall are now in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Cultural relic protection unit. The site is located in Sayibak District, Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, present-day Republic of China, to the west and south of Xinjiang Agricultural University. Current Situation

The existing two sections of the Gongning City Wall are the west wall and the south wall, each of which is about 860 meters long. The remaining height is 4 meters and the foundation thickness is 6 meters. There are currently seven horse faces on the south wall, each spaced 100 meters apart. There is a turret at the southwest corner where the west wall and the south wall meet. In the 1990s, the west gate and south gate of Gongning City Wall still existed, and both the west and south Wengcheng still existed. Later, the west gate was demolished, and now only the south gate remains. The city is semicircular, 48 meters long from north to south and 36 meters long from east to west.

There are side gates about 5 meters wide on the east and west sides of Wengcheng. Fragments such as blue bricks, tiles, and porcelain bowls are scattered inside and outside the Gongning City Wall ruins. The city walls have suffered from wind and rain erosion all year round, and most of the city walls are poorly preserved. In 2004, the Gongning City Wall Site was listed as the fourth batch of Urumqi cultural relics protection units. In June 2007, it was listed as the sixth batch of cultural relics protection units in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

In 2020, procuratorial organs at all levels in Xinjiang, including the People’s Procuratorate of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the People’s Procuratorate of Urumqi City, filed more than 500 cases involving the protection of cultural relics and historic sites, including the administrative public welfare of the protection of the Gongning City Wall Site in Urumqi Litigation case. Led by the Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Urumqi Municipal People's Procuratorate established an "Ancient City Wall Protection Task Force" to investigate the case and issued a pre-litigation procuratorial recommendation to the Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau (Urumqi Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau). Suggestions were put forward such as adding cultural relic protection signs, installing protective fences, and cleaning up garbage within the protection area. This case attracted the attention of the Urumqi Municipal People's Government. The then mayor Yasheng Sidike went to the site for investigation and decided on the spot to carry out rescue protection of the Gongning City Wall ruins. The Urumqi Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau (Urumqi Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau) applied for a special fund of 15 million yuan from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Cultural Relics Bureau to repair the Gongning City Wall ruins.