(en) Rongxing Guo, Territorial Disputes and Resource Management: A Global Handbook, Nova Publishers, 2006, 299 pages, pp. 43-44 (Aksai Chin) : « Aksai Chin is currently under the administration of the People's Republic of China, with the vast majority of it as part of Hetian county, in the Xinjiang Uygur auntonomous region ».