URUMQI – Chinese state media ecns.cn reported Wednesday that new oil reserves totaling 55.56 million tons have been identified in the Tarim Basin of Uyghurstan (officially called Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by China), prompting renewed discussion about resource exploitation in the region. The discovery, made through joint research by Chinese […]
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Author: By Uyghur Times StaffDate: December 7, 2024 Kargilik, East Turkistan – On November 28, 2024, China officially commenced operations at the newly constructed Kashgar Kargilik Mirdei General-Purpose Airport, a project described by Chinese authorities as a “pilot hub for integrated trunk and branch aviation networks.” While state media celebrated […]
By Uyghur Times StaffNovember 10, 2024 China has recently opened the so-called “Xinjiang Hotan Xueyuan (Institute)” in Hotan, as reported on November 10 by the official Chinese publication, Xinjiang Daily. According to the report, this full-time, government-controlled institution is the first of its kind in Hotan, aimed at increasing the […]
BEIJING, June 3 (Reuters) – A Chinese state-owned company announced on Monday that it had connected the world’s largest solar plant to the grid in the northwestern Uyghur Region (officially known as Xinjiang in China). The 3.5-gigawatt (GW), 32,947-acre solar farm, situated in a desert area of the capital Urumqi, […]
In a video shared on the Chinese video social media platform Douyin by Uyghur users, it shows that Chinese farmers are tilling the lands with tractors while a Uyghur woman films and speaks without showing her face. She is still risking her life by sharing such a sensitive incident in […]
By Tursun Uyghur Chinese propaganda outlet Xinjiang Daily reported from the Autonomous Region Market Supervision Administration that “there are currently 2.476 million registered business entities in Xinjiang, including 266,700 in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, representing a 7.75% increase compared to the previous year. Among them, there are 548,300 […]
At 12:14 p.m. (0414 GMT) on Sunday, a 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Akqi County within Uyghur homeland, so-called Xinjiang(Uyghurstan), as reported by the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The earthquake had a depth of 11 km (6.84 miles) according to CENC. As of 1:00 p.m., no casualties or structural collapses […]
A magnitude 7.01 earthquake hit the Kyrgyzstan-“Xinjiang” border region on Tuesday, Associate Press reports. The quake was at a depth of 10 km.
Erkin Abdullah, an established Uyghur guitarist based in California, US, held a large concert at Urumqi Dun Bridge Theater on December 28th, the Uyghur Times Uyghur edition reports. The performance was considered a propaganda win for the Chinese Communist regime.
Uyghur forced labor refers to the systematic and widespread use of forced labor, particularly targeting the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region where Uyghurs refer to Uyghurstan or East Turkistan. What are the evidence of Uyghur forced labor? Evidence of Uyghur forced labor has emerged from various reports […]