URUMQI -- The Barkol Dahe Airport officially began operations on Tuesday, bringing the total number of civil airports in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to 28, the highest among all ...

Urumqi is the largest city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the trade, economic and cultural hub of northwestern ...

China appoints ethnic affairs head as Xinjiang Communist Party chief FILE PHOTO: A Chinese pagoda overlooks the old city in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, May 4, 2021.

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's ruling Communist Party has appointed the head of an ethnic affairs panel as its new party secretary in the vast northwestern region of Xinjiang, the official news ...

TURFAN, China, June 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 24, the temporary construction phase of the No. 1 Open-Pit Mine in the Kumtag Mining Area, located in Shanshan County, Turfan City, Xinjiang, ...

Historically, its southern part was the most underdeveloped part of Xinjiang where higher education was concerned. When Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was established in 1955, there were only two ...