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A white paper issued by China's State Council Information Office on Thursday said China has taken targeted measures to meet the special needs of women, children, the elderly and the disabled in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Xinjiang was set up as an autonomous region on October 1, 1955. It has an area of more than 1.66 million square kilometers, one sixth of the total size of China and larger than any other province or autonomous region.

　　Xinjiang is located in the single region in the world furthest from sea. The Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Atlantic, and Arctic Ocean are all several-thousand kilometers away. In many ways, it is a typical drought and semi-drought region.

The foreign trade volume of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region soared over 70 percent year on year in the first two months of 2017, local authorities said Friday.

Xinjiang plans to spend 14.4 billion yuan on the construction or expansion of 17 airports this year to enhance the region's role as a transport terminal linking China with Central Asia.

The foreign trade volume of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region grew over 40 percent year on year in the first four months of 2017, local authorities said Saturday.

Every evening, workers gather in the Shenzhen Industrial Park in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, waiting for buses to take them home.

The city is located on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains and southern edge of the Junggar Basin, covering a land area of 460 Sq. kilometers with an urban population of 250,000.

The prefecture is located in the southwest of Xinjiang and Artux city as a location of the administrative agency is 1433 (based on highway mileage) kilometers away from Urumqi.

Aksu region is located in the west of Xinjiang, southern slope of the Mid-Tianshan Mountains and northern edge of the Tarim basin.

Xinjiang is a dynamic developing region whose economy is at the take-off state now. The economic scale is not large, scientific and technological power is not strong, and the per capita income is still rather low.

Xinjiang's landscape is composed of five major components, including the three large mountains of Altay, Tianshan, and Kunlun and the two great basins of Junggar and Tarim. It’s said to be a place of “treasure on every mountain, oil in every basin”.