Farmers plant cotton in Xayar County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, April 11, 2025. (Xinhua/Gu Yu) ...

Local farmers and firms interviewed by Xinhua have decried these sanctions as groundless and ill-intended -- imposed to ...

The Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, western China, are living in one of the most heavily-policed and oppressive states in the world. This map helps explain why. China's ...

Alim believes that his father, a retired division head of the Xinjiang Ethnic Language Work Committee, was detained for his research, which aimed to standardise Uygur-Han translations. Hasani ...

Thailand hopes to “learn from Xinjiang’s experience” of managing a multi-ethnic society, deputy prime minister Phumtham Wechayachai has been quoted as telling the Communist Party chief of ...

The largest ethnic group comprises some 7,497,700 Han people, accounting for 40.6 percent of the population of Xinjiang. The remaining 10,964,900 people or 59.4 percent, represent no fewer than 47 ...

48 individuals from predominantly Muslim ethnic groups have been allegedly interned in camps or sentenced without a fair trial and sent to prison in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang ...

At least 1 million Uighurs have been interned since 2017 in more than 85 identified camps within Xinjiang-- an autonomous region in Northwest China, according to Western reports. Most of the ...

URUMQI -- The regional legislature of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in ... to protect a UNESCO-listed oral epic of the Kirgiz ethnic group. The "Manas" epic is known as one of the three heroic ...

In this three-part series, Xinhua will map the past and present of ... over 70 percent of which are of ethnic minority groups. This year, Xinjiang's cotton-growing area is projected to remain ...