The Xinjiang LED Industry League was launched in the Urumqi High-tech Industrial Development Zone on May 10 as part of the 2017 Xinjiang Lighting Bringer Summit Forum.
Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is quickly building itself into a center of transportation, logistics, finance, culture and health care at the core of the Silk Road Economic Belt.
Eighth-grader Tajinitsa's school is 1,000 kilometers from her hometown. Although she misses her parents, when she broke her leg, no one could convince her to return home. She was determined to stay at school.
The Urumqi government has handed out 23.2 million yuan ($3.36 million) in subsidies to support 16,400 local disabled people, according to the Urumqi Civil Affairs Bureau on May 9.
Nearly 50 journalists from 22 countries, including China, Turkey and Singapore, arrived Wednesday in Urumqi, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to participate in a media event themed Approaching the Core Zone (Xinjiang) of the "Silk Road Economic Belt".
