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The State Council Information Office on Thursday issued a white paper on cultural protection and development in Xinjiang.

At 7:54 p.m. on Monday, a rumbling train full of tourists departed from Urumqi for the otherworldly scenic spot of Kanas in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Xinjiang, an important node on the ancient Silk Road, hosts the Gobi, prairies, forests, wetlands and glaciers. It's home to over 1,100 officially recognized scenic spots, including 12 top-rated national attractions, seven national geoparks and 17 national forests.

The First China Xinjiang Special Forestry and Fruit Products Expo kicked off in the Guangdong provincial capital on Friday.

A hundred Afghan children with congenital heart defects have received medical treatment in Northwest China's Uygur autonomous region in four batches since September last year as part of the Red Cross Society of China's foreign humanitarian mission.

More than 30 years ago, a war against desertification was waged silently in a little-known spot called Kekeya in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

This year, the office of the Women's Federation in Wushi, a State-designated poverty-stricken county in the south of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, started a program to help 46 impoverished women open barbershops in their home villages.