A new airport has opened in Altay Prefecture of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Tian Gaoshuai, a body guard from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, capped a fruitful few months in the Chinese armed forces.
A visit to Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region during Ramadan highlights how deeply traditions run there.
President Xi Jinping further encouraged quality restoration work in Xinjiang's Pishan county, which was hit by a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in early July.
Ramadan, the monthlong Muslim holy month marked by daily fasting, ended on Saturday with the feast of Eid al-Fitr for the 12 million Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
An Indonesian court sentenced three members of China's Uygur ethnic group to six years in prison after finding them guilty of conspiring with Indonesian militants.
Ramadan is an important religious festival and Chinese Muslims are no different to any other followers of Islam around the globe.
More than 100 clergies and Islam believers discussed their Ramadan experiences at the Xinjiang Islamic institute in Urumqi, the autonomous region's capital, on Saturday.
Foreign Ministry says repatriation of more than 100 Uygurs is normal cooperation between countries as well as international obligation.
Tursunkhari Zunun, a six-generation Uygur potter, is pleased to see the continued success of his family's traditional clay crafts in the city of Kashgar, China's western-most city, where his works are the top souvenir.
Kazak herdsmen pack their tents and transport their livestock to greener pastures in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in September, 2007, ahead of the arrival of winter. It is a tradition for them to migrate between summer and winter pastures annually.
The ancient tradition of silk farming could be revived as part of a project to restore items up to 2,000 years old found in ancient tombs.
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