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The Chinese government has allocated close to 3 billion yuan (434.2 million U.S. dollars) in funds into the health sector of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, an official said Thursday.

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region officially opened its first geopark in Keketuohai on Wednesday.

A new airport was put into use Wednesday in the city of Tumxuk, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, bringing the total number of civil airports in the region to 21.

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.

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.

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'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”.