The historic city of Kashgar in China, which stands on the Silk Road, is experiencing its biggest economic boom in living memory. Beijing wants to transform Kashgar into the transport hub of old, and ...
If you’ve ever felt like Xinjiang was a locked server in the China travel game, 2026 is the patch that opens it up. With six new scenic highways connecting remote attractions and updated permit ...
Local residents enjoy their leisure time in the ancient city of Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 19, 2024. (Photo: Xinhua) Tourists visit a local residential building ...
Staff members make nang, a local flatbread, at the ancient city of Kashgar scenic area in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Sept. 7, 2023. The ancient city of Kashgar, ...
A partly demolished building in Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road trading hub whose old city is being threatened by a Chinese-government redevelopment planAlessandro Digaetano / Polaris In 1072, a ...
While the CCP’s motives for redeveloping Xinjiang's capital are manifold, what seems to be provoking the most anger among residents, is the near total absence of Uyghur presence in decision-making.
KASHGAR, Xinjiang - Cross-border trade between Kashgar in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Central and South Asian countries is expected to rise by 20 percent in the second ...
The second-story rooms of the centuries-old mud-brick houses were cantilevered atop log beams and nearly touched each other across an alleyway paved with hexagonal stones. Women wearing dark veils ...
Locals enjoy tea in Ostang Boi Teahouse in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. URUMQI, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Every morning at 9:30, 50-year-old teahouse owner Mamet Osman opens ...
Visitors take a night stroll around the ancient city of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo by Yang Yang and Mao Weihua/China Daily] In an evening in mid-September, as the sun set and ...
KASHGAR, China — The train rumbled rhythmically across the northern rim of the Taklimakan Desert, just ahead of the breaking dawn. I awoke at first light and stepped from my bunk onto a floor littered ...
The second-story rooms of the centuries-old mud-brick houses were cantilevered atop log beams and nearly touched each other across an alleyway paved with hexagonal stones. Women wearing dark veils ...