"Kazakh" is one of the 56 ethnicities officially recognized by the Chinese government, so it's easily possible to be simultaneously Chinese and Kazakh. In Dina

"Kazakh" is one of the 56 ethnicities officially recognized by the Chinese government, so it's easily possible to be simultaneously Chinese and Kazakh. In Dina Nurdybai's case, the article mentions that her new home is in Almaty, Kazakhstan but "she lived in the county of Nilka, located in northeast Xinjiang, near the border with Kazakhstan". Nilka is part of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilka_County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilka_County