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China Approves Two Railway Projects
Oct 13, 2016China's top economic planner announced Tuesday it has approved feasibility reports for two railway projects with total investment of 79.47 billion yuan (11.84 billion U.S. dollars). The two projects would be located in the country's ...
Tags: Railway, Transportation
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China Sees Growing Gas Imports From Central Asia
Oct 9, 2016Natural gas imports to China through northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have grown this year, local customs said. As of the end of August, more than 16.75 million tons of natural gas had been imported through Xinjiang this ...
Tags: Gas, Central Asia, Natural gas
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Xinjiang's Natural Gas Output Exceeds 30 Bln Cubic Meters
Dec 25, 2015Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has produced more than 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas this year, ranking second in the country following Shaanxi Province. According to the latest statistics from the region's ...
Tags: Natural Gas
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Wanda to Build 3.5-Bln-Yuan Shopping Complex in Xinjiang
Dec 22, 2015Wanda Group will build a shopping complex in downtown Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it announced on Friday. The shopping complex, with an investment of 3.5 billion yuan (540 million U.S. dollars), will ...
Tags: Wanda, Shopping Complex
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Re-Operation of China-Pakistan Highway to Facilitate Bilateral Trade
Dec 17, 2015The file photo taken in 2011 shows the camp of Chinese engineering team alongside the Karakoram Highway. [Photo: CRI Online] The Karakoram Highway linking northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and north Pakistan's Thakot is ...
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Workshops Bring Earthy Mongolian Arts to Life
Dec 16, 2015Unir sings while playing the morin khuur, or horse-head fiddle, during a performance. [Photo provided to China Daily] As his fingers run over the strings, we hear a thunderstorm and rain. When he whistles, you hear the wind. Horses run ...
Tags: morin khuur, Mongolian instrument
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New Cargo Train to Link Central China, Luxembourg
Dec 16, 2015A cargo train will start operating in 2016 between central China's Henan Province and Luxembourg, Zhengzhou International Hub Development and Construction Company said on Tuesday. According to the plans, the train will exit China at ...
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Lin Feng: Painter of China's Western Regions
Nov 26, 2015A Huidong Beauty. 68 × 68 cm Lin Feng was born in Indonesia in 1938, and returned with his family 10 years later to their ancestral home of Fuqing, Fujian Province. When, during the 1960s, the government called on young ...
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Film Shows Xinjiang Youth Studying in Cities Across China
Nov 4, 2015During the past 15 years, nearly 70,000 ethnic teenagers from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have been recruited to study at inland city high schools. Now, a coming-of-age film inspired by the project, a national program, will be ready ...
Tags: Film, Xinjiang Youth, Studying in Cities
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Foods Are Given Different Meaning in China
Nov 4, 2015China food culture is an important part of China culture in the aspect of cooking and leisure.China food also has a worldwide reputation due to its long-term spread from China to the other regions of the world.It can easily be found in ...
Tags: Food Culture, Chinese cuisine
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Mother Show
Oct 29, 2015Beijing International Art Biennale opens on Thursday, drawing artists from China and abroad. The exhibition Memory and Dream will highlight the sixth Beijing International Art Biennale that begins on Thursday. Among the country's top ...
Tags: Beijing International Art Biennale, paintings, sculptures
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Xinjiang Muslims Embrace Corban Festival
Oct 29, 2015Muslims in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region began celebrating on Thursday as one of the biggest religious festivals in China gets underway. The three-day Corban Festival, also known as Eid al-Adha or feast of the sacrifice, centers ...
Tags: Xinjiang Muslims, Corban Festival
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Preserving Cultural Heritage in Xinjiang
Oct 29, 2015The Xinjiang Uygur Muqam is a term referring to a variety of musical practices widespread among Uygur communities, one of the largest ethnic minorities in China. Born into a musical family, Ablimit Eysa is the 6th generation of the ...
Tags: Cultural Heritage, Xinjiang, Muqam music
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Ancient City of Milan: Important Town on Ancient 'Silk Road'
Oct 28, 2015Photo taken on Oct 14, 2015 shows ruins of the ancient city of Milan, some 80 kilometers to the east of Qarilik (Ruoqiang) county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Milan, laying on the south of Taklimakan Desert, was an ...
Tags: Ancient City, Milan, "Silk Road"
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Television Production Celebrates Great Sage
Oct 27, 2015Filming of the documentary, a joint Chinese-British television production, began at a ceremony marking the 2,565th anniversary of the philosopher's birth. Confucius had its world premiere in London on Wednesday during President Xi ...