An equestrian show is staged during a tourism festival in Zhaosu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 19, 2025. (Xinhua/Wang Fei) A performance is staged during a tourism festival in Zhaosu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 19, 2025.
URUMQI, July 17 (Xinhua) -- A total of 500,000 trips to or from China have been recorded in 2025 at the Urumqi Tianshan International Airport in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region -- the highest figure for the January-July period in a decade. By Monday, foreign nationals had made more than 146,000 trips to China via the airport this year, which was a year-on-year increase of 30 percent, according to statistics from the airport's immigration authorities.
URUMQI, China, July 16 (Xinhua) -- In northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, young athletes are choosing action over comfort this summer. "How can I improve my skills?" "What's your secret to growing so tall?" "Do we have a chance to play in the CBA someday?" Those were just some of the eager questions posed by students when Chinese Basketball Association stars Abdusalam Abdurexit and Zhu Xuhang visited a school in Hotan on Tuesday.
Women work at a new energy technology company in Shule County of Kashgar Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, June 24, 2025. (Xinhua/Gu Yu) URUMQI, July 16 (Xinhua) -- There was a time in the southern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region when many rural women lived out of public view, economically dependent on their spouses and bound by traditional household gender roles.
