Around 620, Western Turkic Khaganate expelled Xueyantuo from the Ulungu River Basin.

In 658, Tang defeated the Western Turkic Khanate, and this place was under the jurisdiction of Jinshan Protectorate (金山都護府).

In 757, the Uyghur Khaganate sent troops to help the Tang Dynasty to pacify the Anshi Rebellion, and its clan power gradually spread to the west of Jinshan.

[5] In the late Liao Dynasty, this place was the nomadic land of the Turkic Naiman tribe.

Yelu Dashi, a nobleman of the Liao Dynasty, moved westward to Central Asia, and established the Qara Khitai in 1130.

In 1205, the Mongolian conquered Naiman tribe and killed its leader, Tayang Khan.

In 1919, the Altai Special Administrative Region (阿爾泰特別行政區) was placed under the jurisdiction of Xinjiang Province, and Ashan Circuit (阿山道) was set up to govern the county; in the same year, Burultoqay County (布倫托海縣) was set up.

After 1949, it was subordinate to the Ashan Administrative Commissioner's Office (阿山行政專員公署) of Xinjiang Province.

[6] Fuhai County is located in the middle of the Altay Prefecture of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, adjacent to Fuyun County in the east, Jimunai County, Tacheng District, and Buxel Mongolia Autonomous County in the west, across the Junggar Basin in the south and adjacent to Fukang City, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, and adjacent to Altay City and Beitun City to the north.

[2] Fuhai County has listed 15 species of rare and endangered first-class protected animals in China, including wild donkeys, saiga antelopes, snow leopards, beavers, red-crowned cranes, and Mongolian wild horses; second-class protected animals include red deer, argali, lynx, swans, and ibex 20 other species; hundreds of other wild animals.

Licorice, Codonopsis, Dayun, Fritillaria, Coptidis, Cordyceps sinensis, Asafoetida, mushrooms, etc.

The rare and endangered protected plants in the autonomous region include Siberian fir, spruce, Populus euphratica, snow lotus, etc.

[2] Geologic surveys exploring the county's copper, lead, zinc, gold, beryllium, lithium, niobium, tantalum, rubidium, cesium, and muscovite have been conducted.

[7] Hongshanzui Port, a land border crossing with Mongolia, is located within Fuhai County.

[14] Starting in 1988, the county government began undertaking research regarding dastans in the hope of preserving them.