URUMQI, July 16 (Xinhua) -- The Barkol Dahe Airport officially began operations on Tuesday, bringing the total number of civil airports in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to 28, the highest among all provincial-level regions in China. As the second high-altitude airport in Xinjiang, Barkol Dahe Airport is located in the Kazak Autonomous County of Barkol, Hami City.
URUMQI, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Alashankou, also known as Alataw Pass, a primary land port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, had handled more than 4,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train trips this year as of Wednesday, according to China Railway Urumqi Group Co., Ltd.
URUMQI, July 13 (Xinhua) -- China has finished construction of a 4,197-km extra-high voltage power transmission loop around the Tarim Basin, home to the country's largest desert, marking a major infrastructure milestone in southern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The final section of the 750-kilovolt (kV) loop, now the country's largest of its kind, was connected on Sunday, capping a 15-year project involving nine substations and nearly 10,000 steel towers, according to a subsidiary of State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co.
