Jing

Jing's Qing-period history centers on Anfu, a fortified settlement beside the Jing River in what is now Jinghe County. Accounts place its establishment in the late 1750s, during the Qing consolidation of Dzungaria. The fort's name expressed the intention of bringing security and prosperity to the new settlement. Civil and military officials were stationed there, giving this river crossing an administrative role within the expanding frontier system.

The settlement did not remain on its first site. In 1783 a new Anfu town was built farther east, and the local civil office was reorganized to handle grain affairs. County histories also record the settlement of some returning Torghuts in the Jinghe area in 1771. These episodes belong to a landscape being reshaped by forts, officials and movements of people.