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A Uygur photographer's documentary seeks to focus on the lives of Xinjiang natives, who are away from home. Wang Kaihao reports.

"When you work hard, you will get lucky. When you are brave, you will be capable of change."

The words are from I Am from Xinjiang on the Silk Road, a book by Kurbanjan Samat, an ethnic Uygur photographer from Hotan in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.