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, […]
Geography & Cities
News about the geography and each city and prefecture in the Uyghur homeland: Urumqi, Turpan, Ghulja, Kashgar, Aksu, Artush, Hotan (Khotan), Qumul, Altay, Sayram, Yarkend, Qaghiliq, and Poskam.
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.
By Tahir Imin Uyghurian Sept 22, 2020 Chinese Government announced on Monday a new “Appointments and removal list of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region “after Adoption at the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th People’s Congress of the Xinjiang Uygur […]
By Tahir Imin Uyghurian July 20, 2020 According to the Chinese State-run media Global Times, “From midnight Wednesday to midday Saturday, Urumqi reported 17 confirmed COVID-19 patients, and 23 asymptomatic cases, according to local authorities. The current outbreak is related to a group gathering which is developing rapidly, and local […]
April 22, 2020 By Uyghur Human Rights Project On Earth Day, UHRP highlights the connection between state oppression of Uyghurs and environmental degradation in East Turkistan. The Chinese government has increased the extraction of East Turkistan’s natural resources, such as minerals and foil fuels, and has massively expanded intensive agriculture […]