
A photographer in Xinjiang followed a swan family for three months, documenting how a mother swan giving birth to her baby swans.

Top Chinese political advisor Jia Qinglin Monday called on people in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to fight against the "three forces" of extremism, separatism and terrorism, to ensure social stability, ethnic harmony and the unity of the country.
Dry cleaning store-owner Cao Xia hears about violence quite often in her city of Aksu, a remote place in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, over the 23 years she has lived in the city.
Leading Chinese power company Huaneng said Tuesday it has launched a 26 billion yuan ($3.8 billion) synthetic natural gas (SNG) project in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to boost energy exploration and production there.
President of China Development Bank Corp Chen Yuan said Tuesday the bank will boost lending to northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to strengthen the region's infrastructure and finance its economic development.
China's leading power company Huaneng said on Monday that it would spend more than 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in the far west Xinjiang region for energy exploration during the next ten years.
Ethnic integration should be the ultimate goal in Xinjiang policy as the central government launches new economic development programs in the Uygur-dominated far western region, a leading professor said during an interview with South Wind Window, or Nanfengchuang magazine.
Producers of crude oil and natural gas will be levied a new sales tax in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.
China's government Tuesday introduced a new tax on sales of crude oil and natural gas in the western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said Wednesday.
China's central bank will push forward yuan settlement in cross-border trade and investment in the western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), said Tuesday.
Authorities in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region have unveiled a package of measures, ranging from safer housing to better education and wider social security coverage, to improve local residents' livelihoods.