[8][9] The name 'Onsu' (Wensu) means "ten water" in Uyghur and other Turkic languages.

[15] In a Radio Free Asia interview, a Han Chinese staffer in the Onsu County local government said that in July 2017, a policy to affix QR codes to all knives belonging to Uyghurs was being carried out.

[16] As of March 2018, every cadre in the county was required to spend eight days a month at the home of villagers.

Industries produce food, spun cotton, building materials and coal.

[30] As of 2015, 197,360 of the 259,305 residents of the county were Uyghur, 55,335 were Han Chinese and 6,610 were from other ethnic groups.