Xinjiang gives new tourism goodies to lure crowds

The northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has introduced six special tourism trains and 10 self-drive routes to woo tourists.

These routes cover major tourist attractions in the region, with some even extending to the neighboring Dunhuang in Gansu province and Almaty in Kazakhstan.

"Xinjiang has 56 varieties of tourism resources, accounting for 83 percent of the national total," says Zhang Jie, an official from the Xinjiang tourism development commission.