20mn-ton Iron Ore Discovered in Xinjiang

With a total of 47 ethnic nationalities in Northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Uygur language is one of the most widely spoken there. Ethnic minorities make up 60 percent of the region's population, and preserving their mother ...

Large solar panels in a power plant in Hami, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, yesterday. BRUSSELS: The European Commission agreed yesterday to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China in a move to guard against ...

Two people were killed and another was critically injured in a landslide on Monday in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Tuesday. The landslide occurred at around 7 p.m. in Manas County in the autonomous region, burying ...

A woman holds an umbrella to shelter from sleet in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 3, 2013. A sleet hit the capital city of Xinjiang on Wednesday in the wake of sharp temperature drop.

BEIJING, April 29 (UPI) -- The battle took place in northwest China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday. In announcing the arrests, Meng Hongwei, vice minister of public security, said police seized ...

Security forces stand guard along a street in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 4, 2010, the day before the capital of China's remote western region marked the first anniversary of ethnic rioting that killed around 200 people.

Attack survivor wishes to forget, reports Cui Jia in Selibuya town, Kashgar, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Ahmetjon Wubuli doesn't want to remember how six of his colleagues were killed by a terrorist group, but the horrors keep coming back.

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region gained foreign trade value of USD 5.238 billion in the first quarter of 2013, rising 26.4% year on year. In detail, the export value hit USD 4.591 billion, hiking 51.3%, the import value reached USD 647 million, ...

A woman looks up as a dust storm hits Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer BEIJING: Twenty-one people, including police officers and social workers, were killed in violent clashes in China's ethnically-divided ...