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Kurbanjan Samat, a 32-year-old photographer, brought his project of portraits of Xinjiang people to New York for the 2015 BEA, which this year features China as its guest of honor for the first time.
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Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has started to improve travel services to boost tourism after the sector was hit hard last year as a result of terrorist attacks.
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The government of the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone in Toutunhe district in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has attached great importance to local construction projects of late.
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Russian city of Iskitim sent a delegation to Karamay, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to examine the elderly care services in the city, April 28.
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Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has started to improve travel services to boost tourism after the sector was hit hard last year as a result of terrorist attacks.
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A Pakistani delegation visited the No 1 Middle School in Karamay, an oil-rich city in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on April 27, to explore school-management models and hold consultations with teachers and students.
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A total of 181 terror gangs have been busted after police in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region started a sweeping anti-terror campaign a year ago.
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A delegation from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region reached deals valued at nearly 100 million yuan ($16.12 million) at the 73th Pharm China – a national medicine fair held in Shanghai – on May 15.
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Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China will launch a flood control project along the Yarkant River, according to the regional development and reform commission.
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For the past 50 years, Chinese ink artist Lin Feng has lived in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. The people and culture of the area has had a major impact on him.
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The Fifth Xinjiang Teenagers' Science Festival opened in Karamay Science and Technology Museum on April 28. The young science and technology talent in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region impressed the attendants with their skillful display.
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The Second Fashion Exhibition opened in Karamay's International Exhibition Center in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on May 9.
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A 10-member Azerbaijani delegation paid a visit to Karamay in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to attend the 5th Xinjiang Teenagers' Science Festival and explore the oil city.
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Eli Kasim is a farmer in Bosikamu village in Kashi area in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. He used to be an active participant of many village activities.
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The Urumqi delegation from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region achieved a turnover of as much as 10 million yuan ($1.61 million) at the 10th China International Culture Industries Fair in Shenzhen (ICIF) from May 14 to 18.
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National outstanding worker, Roza Mehmet Buck, was welcomed back to Karamay after attending the National Outstanding Worker Commendation Conference in Beijing.
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The organizing committee of the China International Fair for Investment & Trade (CIFIT) will visit the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region – the fair’s guest province (region) of honor in 2014 - from May 24 to 31.
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The Chamber of Commerce of Xinjiang Development was established in Toutunhe district of Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on May 12. The organization consists of 84 enterprises.
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The Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone (UETD) in Toutunhe district, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, held various activities on May 14 to mark the National Day for Helping the Disabled.
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Karamay Coach Terminal has started offering delivery services to 19 cities, counties and districts in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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Xinte Energy Company in Urumqi city, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, received a delegation from the National Development and Reform Commission on May 8. The group came to investigate the company's work on energy saving.
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The Party chief of Karamay, Chen Xinfa, along with the director of Gwadar in Pakistan, signed a 'sister city agreement' in the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on April 20.
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A visiting group from the British Embassy paid a visit to the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone in Toutunhe district in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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A new company to run the heating supply services in Karamay has been founded. The Karamay Heating Co started operations on April 29 and will take charge of heating services in Karamay, an oil city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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The tourism industry of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which was hit hard in 2014 because the fear of random terrorist attacks made some people choose not to the region, has begun to recover in 2015 as the social situation becomes more stable, according to the regional tourism bureau.
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A huge body of glacier has collapsed in China's Xinjiang, burying more than 100 cattle, crushing dozens of houses and damaging 1,000 hectares of grassland, local government said on Saturday.
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Euphrates poplars, the only variety of arbors in desert, are a masterpiece of nature. They doggedly stand there and withstand severe climate conditions, coloring the boundless desert.
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Xinjiang has always been a sensitive issue for the Western media. But since some of the foreign media outlets don't have even the basic knowledge of the situation in Xinjiang, they tend to quote partisan or misleading sources leading to distorted reports.
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The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region set up a Chamber of Commerce on May 12.
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Urumqi and Changji in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will host the Third West China Symphony Week from June 2 to 8.
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Rats are ravaging 380,000 hectares of grasslands in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, local authorities said on Thursday.
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Huiyuan town in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has been covered by 20 hectares of Chinese chives land so far and the plantation area is expected to increase, thanks to a strong demand in the Chinese chives market.
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A delegation from Afghanistan's parliament, led by former vice-chairman of the Afghan House of the People, paid a visit to the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone in Toutunhe district, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on April 29.
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More than 7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity were transmitted from Xinjiang to the rest of China during the first quarter, up by 120 percent year-on-year, thanks to improved infrastructure.
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The Urumqi State High-tech Industrial Zone in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has become a demonstration site for the circular economy, according to the region's Development and Reform Commission.
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The official English website of Karamay city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region ranked second among 105 government websites in foreign languages for cities at the prefecture level, the Karamay Daily reported.
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Tourist shuttle buses appeared in Huiyuan ancient city, located in Huiyuan town in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, during the International Workers' Day holiday from May 1-3.
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Huocheng county in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is expected to open a pharmaceutical logistics center which will mainly deal with medicine and armamentarium distribution, and traditional Chinese medicine processing.
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Media personnel from 15 news organizations were welcomed in Karamay in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on April 17 to interview Roza Mehmet Buck, the leader of an oil extraction group.
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Journalists from the People's Daily recently visited Gongliu county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to experience the county's development with the support from Zhangjiagang city in Jiangsu province.
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The Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone in Toutunhe district, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, held a flag-raising ceremony on May 4 to mark the China Youth Day.
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Karamay's rock and roll band "Metoo" took the stage in 2015 Strawberry Music Festival – the largest music festival in China held in Shanghai World Expo Park on May 1 with many Chinese famous bands and musicians.
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Hero Manas, a dance drama originating from a heroic epic in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will make its debut in mid-May in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.
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The National Tech-Transfer (Eastern) Center outlined plans to open a branch in Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region at a signing ceremony with the city on April 23 in Shanghai.
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The National Road No 335 linking Karamay and Urumqi is in the planning phase and when completed, is expected to shorten the travelling time and distance between the two cities, according to Karamay Daily.
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Construction work on the China Mobile (Xinjiang) data center began in the Karamay Cloud Computing Industrial Park on April 10. It is expected to become the largest data center in China's northwest region.
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Urumqi's Toutunhe district in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region launched a compulsory tree-planting campaign on April 24. The activity resulted in 66,880 square meters of new green land being readied.
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The agro-technical station of Huiyuan town in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region gave out free pesticide to 1,000 households on April 29.
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Villagers in Huocheng county, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have found a new way to make money by planting stevia rebaudiana.
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It was only nine months after his own college graduation ceremony that Adil Mamattura showed up at a job fair at Tsinghua University in Beijing, trying to recruit some of China's best graduates for his startup firm.
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The fifth Youth Science Festival of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region was held in Karamay on April 28 and 29. More than 3,000 people took part in the annual technical innovation event.
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Authorities in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region plan to transform the area into a hub for international medical tourism and attract patients from across Central Asia. Cui Jia reports from Urumqi.
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The State High-tech Industrial Zone in Urumqi city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region held a training session on April 8 to discuss earthquake prevention and disaster relief.
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Sandstorms swept parts of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Monday, lowering visibility to zero.
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A large group of junior middle school students from Karamay went on a study tour in Gansu province.
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People who purchase newly built apartments should pay deed tax in accordance with law, which usually accounts for 3 percent of the purchasing price. However, Karamay residents currently pay only 1 percent tax thanks to subsidies by the local government.
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Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region held a press conference on April 19 to introduce the Fifth Huocheng Lavender Tourism Festival and Huocheng's tourism.
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Toutunhe district in Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region held a spring job fair on April 14. More than 400 people received job offers.
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More than 50 institutions, organizations and families work together to grow vegetables in the garden of the Black Oil Mountain elderly community in Karamay, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region by April 2, aiming to help the senior citizens there.
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Huocheng county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region launched a series of activities to mark World Book Day on April 20.
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Doctors from Karamay Central Hospital carried out a hip surgery with the aid of robotic navigation technology and positioning on March 14. It marks the first time that robotic surgery in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
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Xinjiang residents can now receive their online orders within a day thanks to the online retailer, Vipshop, who recently established a regional headquarter in the province.
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If you find such fussy cuisine boring and need an outlet via a bit of delicious frontier food on your palette, it is best to take yourself to a Xinjiang restaurant. Xinjiang cuisine is not just lamb kebabs, and if you are there with friends, the "big plate chicken" is a classic.
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The Song of Karamay written in the 1960s has made Karamay, the oil city located in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region known to many people all around China.
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The Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone (Toutunhe district) in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will prioritize green projects in its high-speed rail area, ecological fitness trail and parks, according to Toutunhe's landscape and forestry bureau.
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Dilnar Abdulla often looks to her hometown, Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, for inspiration.
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People in Xinjiang can get what they have ordered online within a day, since Vipshop an online retailer settled down its Xinjiang region’s operation headquarter project in Urumqi city’s Economic and Technological Development Zone (Toutunhe district).
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Economic Development Zone in Toutunhe district, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region attracts the Fujian Energy Group Co to invest in, and the two sides held a signing ceremony of strategic cooperation on April 10.
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The "Blue sky program", a three-year air pollution abatement plan launched by the Karamay government has yielded remarkable results last year. The city has also recently set its 2015 working targets for the program.
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Thousands of students in Huocheng county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region took part in a voluntary tree planting activity on April 13.
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Tajikistan and China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region agreed Monday to advance exchanges and cooperation in such fields as agriculture, infrastructure, economy and trade, and security, with an eye on the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt.
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Center for Disease Prevention and Control in Karamay city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has established partnership with Xinjiang Medical University, under which internship opportunities will be offered to the said university students.
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Karamay's official Wechat account, "Civilized Karamay", was entered into the list of the Top 100 government accounts from western regions in China, according to the Karamay internet information office.
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A comprehensive bonded zone was opened in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region's border city of Kashgar on Monday.
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Models are wanted for the second Karamay Fashion and Brand Expo to be held on May 9 and 10, the Karamay Daily reported.
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Xinjiang Green Building Co was officially established in Toutunhe district in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on March 30.