China's leading power company Huaneng said on Monday that it would spend more than 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in the far west Xinjiang region for energy exploration during the next ten years.
China's leading power company Huaneng said on Monday that it would spend more than 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in the far west Xinjiang region for energy exploration during the next ten years.
Ethnic integration should be the ultimate goal in Xinjiang policy as the central government launches new economic development programs in the Uygur-dominated far western region, a leading professor said during an interview with South Wind Window, or Nanfengchuang magazine.
Dubbed "China's Dakar Rally", the Tour de Taklimakan Desert Auto and Motorcycle Rally is expected to become the country's first international rally in two years.
Villagers turn to trees as the last hope in holding back spreading desert. Daniel Chinoy reports from Inner Mongolia.
For 17 years, Rahman Amut has been the guardian of the 1,600-year-old grottoes, important Buddhist cultural relics on the ancient Silk Road.