Cika jumla mai zuwa:
Yuli 2009 Ürümqi hargitsi, tashin hankali na kabilanci ya tashi a Xinjiang da Hotan musamman. A sakamakon haka, birnin yana fuskantar tashin hankali a wasu lokatai. A watan Yunin 2011, Hotan ya buɗe sabis na jirgin ƙasa na farko zuwa Kashgar, wanda aka kafa a matsayin yanki na musamman na tattalin arziki bayan tarzoma. A watan Yuli na wannan shekarar, wani bam da harin wuka ya faru a tsakiyar titin birnin. A watan Yunin 2011, hukumomi a lardin Hotan sun yanke wa wani Musulmin Uyghur Hebibullah Ibrahim hukuncin daurin shekaru goma a gidan yari saboda sayar da "kayan addini ba bisa ka'ida ba". A watan Yunin 2012, an sace jirgin saman Tianjin Airlines mai lamba 7554 a kan hanyarsa daga Hotan zuwa Ürümqi.