The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region saw its green electricity consumption reach a historic 43.43 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2025, a staggering 230 percent increase over the previous year that underscores the region's rapidly expanding role as a cornerstone of China's renewable energy strategy.
2026-01-21Ports across northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region recorded robust traffic in 2025, leading the nation in cross-border rail traffic volume, local authorities said on Friday.
2026-01-19Muyassar Ahmattohti, who graduated from Xinjiang Arts University in 2025, returned to her hometown and became a designer of cultural and creative products of mulberry paper, a national intangible cultural heritage with a history of over a thousand years.
2026-01-19Huanggong Bazaar in Yining County of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region stirs even before dawn on trading days. Shrouded in winter darkness, trucks loaded with cattle, sheep and horses edge toward the gate at this bazaar, arriving in a sequence governed by the market rhythm that has changed little across generations.
2026-01-19The influx of enterprises into the Kashgar area of the China (Xinjiang)Pilot Free Trade Zone in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has emerged as a key driver of trade growth. According to its administrative office, the area recorded a total import and export volume of 93.16 billion yuan ($13.36 billion) in 2025, exceeding its annual target by 5.7 percent.
2026-01-15Across Xinjiang's wind-lashed Gobi Desert and sun-scorched basins, the rotation of the wind turbine blades and the pulse of solar energy feed power into the grid that, in a flash, lights up homes thousands of kilometers away.
2026-01-14In the depths of winter, rows of vibrant green watermelon vines climb trellises, heavy with fruit, while bunches of plump, dark grapes and red dragon fruits hang from branches inside greenhouses built on the southern fringe of the Taklimakan, China's largest desert.
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