URUMQI, March 21 (Xinhua) -- After two years of excavation, a batch of important cultural relics -- including a well-preserved jade cross -- was unearthed at the relics site of a Nestorian monastery in Turpan, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Nestorianism, or Jingjiao in Chinese, was the earliest form of Christianity introduced to China.
Tourists ride horses in Hemu Village in Altay Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 5, 2024.
BEIJING, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Dou Wangui, a senior political advisor of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is under disciplinary and supervisory investigation, according to an official statement on Wednesday. Dou, vice chairperson of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is being investigated by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision for suspected serious violations of laws and regulations.
URUMQI, March 19 (Xinhua) -- The foreign trade of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region surged by 51.4 percent year on year in the first two months of this year, local authorities said.
