URUMQI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A soldier's diary, a faded red flag from wartime, the compartment of a mobile communications vehicle from the 1960s -- these are just a few of the 30,000-plus items housed at Liu Yongpeng's private museum in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The low-key museum -- consisting of a single hall measuring around 1,200 square meters -- was built up by Liu five years ago.
Technicians with the State Grid Kashgar Electric Power Supply Company maintain a transmission tower. (Photo/Wang Kang) Located in the hinterland of the Pamir Plateau and surrounded by mountains, Datong township in Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region once had no stable supply of electricity.
Herdsman Musa Purkhan checks out his horses in Simuhana village in Wuqia County of the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 25, 2023. (Xinhua/Hao Zhao) URUMQI, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Herdsman Musa Purkhan is in great demand in Simuhana, China's westernmost administrative village, with port staff, village officials and tourists always seeking him out for some job or other.
URUMQI, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Yang Haoran's job is probably every little boy's dream: the young technician spends most of his days flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over the vast croplands in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Since the spring sowing of cotton seeds commenced in the northern areas of Xinjiang, Yang has been fully occupied with operating his fleet of drones, which are capable of covering over 200,000 square meters of cotton fields.
