Turpan is where pot-puffing warlock corpses gaze back at us through millennia, and Turpan Museum paints Turpan's Silk Road heritage as a mosaic of peoples.
About 200 billion yuan ($32 billion) will be spent to develop civil aviation projects linked to the Belt and Road Initiative in a move to increase regional connectivity.
About 200 billion yuan will be spent to develop civil aviation projects linked to the Belt and Road Initiative, says Li Jiaxiang, director of the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
The ancient tradition of silk farming could be revived at Turpan as part of a project to restore exquisite clothing and other items up to 2,000 years old found in ancient tombs.
China's $40 billion Silk Road Fund for investment, part of the nation's commitment to the Belt and Road initiative, announced its first project in Islamabad.
The 2015 Visiting Program for Young Sinologists kicked off with an official opening ceremony at Traders Hotel Beijing on Monday.
Guangdong and Guangxi Exit-Entry Inspection and Quarantine Bureaus signed a memorandum to facilitate trade activities in the Beibu Gulf Zone with countries along the Belt and Road.
Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province, has set itself the target of building the metropolis into an international shipping hub.
A higher education alliance was founded at the opening ceremony of a conference about education along the New Silk Road held in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province.
"Zhanjiang will seize the historical opportunity and take responsibility as the city has been considered one of the strategic pivots in implementing China's belt and road initiative," Liu Xiaohua, party secretary of Zhanjiang, said.
Railway authorities in China's far western Xinjiang region on Wednesday launched a cargo train service linking its regional capital of Urumqi with Moscow.