URUMQI, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- "Once you can walk, you can play football," is a saying originating from Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where football first arrived in the 19th century.
URUMQI, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- On the Pamir Plateau, where herds graze the slopes and wheat has long sustained villages, asparagus was never part of the story.
URUMQI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Though in his late fifties, Jeneshan Salapi, an ethnic Kazakh herdsman, moves with the fluid grace of youth when performing the traditional eagle dance of the ethnic group.
URUMQI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- This summer, 18-year-old Uygur girl Aydina Yasen was overjoyed to receive her admission letter to the Konghou program at a conservatory in northeast China, offering her the chance to further study the ancient Chinese musical instrument she has loved since childhood.
