Helping to improve lives

Adi Turdi is China's first high-speed train driver from the Uygur ethnic group. On Sunday, he also had a taste of the first high-speed train of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, from Urumqi to Hami.

Both Adi's parents work for Xinjiang's railway authorities. The 34-year-old said he grew up playing around real trains, so it is natural that he is living his dream by driving one of them.

Adi is one of the 25 high-speed Uygur, Kazakh and Han train drivers serving the new line. They received training in other high-speed railways and all of them earned their licenses last September.