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 […]
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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.
By Elizabeth Palmer January 7, 2024 / 9:39 AM EST / CBS News Xinjiang Province, on China’s Western frontier – origin of the Silk Road, the ancient gateway for trade to the Middle East – was off-limits during the pandemic. But it is open again, and these days it’s being marketed by […]
By Erkin Uyghur, Jan 3, 2023 In a recent announcement by the Uyghur autonomous regional government, it has been revealed that the Chinese government’s holiday arrangements for 2024 in Xinjiang predominantly focus on China’s national and ethnic holidays, overshadowing Uyghur ethnic holidays. The official statement disclosed that, out of the […]
In a recent move, the Internet Information Office of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has intensified its efforts to address a series of online activities deemed illegal. The office highlighted specific incidents that it claims violated established policies. One incident, reported in November 2023, involved a netizen raising concerns about […]