Urumqi to hold TV expo next week

A Sino-Russian TV documentary expo will begin in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, from June 6.

The expo, which is jointly hosted by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and the local government, is part of ongoing Sino-Russian media exchanges.

Xinjiang Television and Russia Today, a Russian international TV network, will respectively bring 10 documentaries to reflect each side's culture and ordinary peoples' lives, Yang Hongxin, head of Xinjiang Television, a main organizer, told reporters in Beijing on Friday.