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The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is China’s bridge to Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, owing to its strategic location as the country’s westernmost frontier. It plays a vital role in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a framework of trade and infrastructure networks connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along and beyond the […]

As the lyrics of a popular folk song in China go, “the brothers and sisters from the 56 ethnic groups belong to the same family.” China is home to 56 ethnic groups, with the majority Han making up around 91.5 percent of the country’s population, according to 2021 data. Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region […]

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, paid a visit to Shihezi City on Wednesday afternoon during his inspection tour of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Xi visited the Army Reclamation Museum and a local regiment of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to learn about the history of […]