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Religious leaders in Xinjiang have expressed strong indignation over and firm opposition to the passage of a Xinjiang-related bill by the U.S. House of Representatives.

There is a saying in China: Education is an important indicator of a country's progress and potential.

The State Council Information Office on Sunday issued a white paper on historical matters concerning Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China.

The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a white paper titled "Historical Matters Concerning Xinjiang" on Sunday.

Recently, we have noted that you have made a number of remarks about China, including false accusations against the ethnic, religious and human rights situations in Xinjiang. As scholars and religious personnel in Xinjiang, we deeply deplore your irresponsible and erroneous remarks.

China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is on the right track of rapid economic and social development.

Senior diplomats from permanent missions of eight countries to the United Nations Office at Geneva visited Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region from Feb. 16 to 19 at the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Three comprehensive bonded zones, located in Alataw Pass, Kashgar and Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, saw their foreign trade volume rising more than 40 percent year on year in January.

A Chinese expert from the Uygur ethnic group on Monday stressed here that without stability in his hometown of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, nothing can be achieved there.

The vocational education and training program in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region should be viewed as a constructive effort to help eliminate the soil that breeds terrorism and extremism, said Zhang Nan, a researcher at the Anti-Terrorism Law School of the Northwest University of Political Science and Law.

A total of 520,900 people in poverty-stricken areas in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region were lifted out of poverty last year, a regional poverty relief official said Wednesday.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region issued rural insurance worth over 79.8 billion yuan (around 11.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2018, according to local financial regulators.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region created jobs for 75,000 poor residents in its southern regions in 2018, local authorities said.

China firmly opposes officials and media of certain countries "politicizing and stigmatizing" the efforts and measures taken by China to fight terrorism and eliminate extremism in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said.