“…Thus, the magmatism in the Bogda belt may record pivotal information of Phanerozoic, especially Carboniferous-Permian, crustal growth of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) (Sengör et al, 1993;Jahn et al, 2000;Xiao et al, 2004;Windley et al, 2007;Safonova et al, 2011;Wilhem et al, 2012;Xiao et al, 2013). However, the tectonic evolution of this region in Carboniferous-Permian remains debated on 1) a post-collisional orogenic belt as Paleo-Tianshan Ocean closed at the end of Early Carboniferous Chen et al, 2011;Han et al, 2011), 2) a Carboniferous-Permian continental rift associated with a mantle plume (Gu et al, 2000(Gu et al, , 2001Xia et al, 2008Xia et al, , 2012, and 3) a Carboniferous island arc system switched to a post-collisional orogenic belt in Permian (Ma et al, 1997;Laurent-Charvet et al, 2003;Xiao et al, 2004;Yuan et al, 2010;Shu et al, 2011;Xie et al, 2016a).…”