Customers calling the Geely car dealership on Dawan South Road are greeted by a tape recording with merry music and a female voice: “We have the Golden Eagle, the Beautiful Day, the Vision, and the Panda series for you,” she says.
But at the dealership on the southeastern outskirts of Urumqi, only blackened shells are left of these symbols of prosperity.
Guo Jianxin and Qian Yuxiu, a Han Chinese couple who own two Geely car yards and one repair shop in Urumqi, lost their business to the wave of ethnic violence that swept the capital of Xinjiang, China's westernmost region, a week ago and has shaken its fragile stability.
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