In Xinjiang, Dance Speaks as Loud as Words
Xinjiang is not a single story. It is many ethnic groups, many traditions, many landscapes and many hands at work.
Jul 31, 2026
China’s Great Green Wall Is Nearing Completion After 46 Years of Fighting the Desert
In the Kubuqi Desert, workers didn’t stop at planting. They built solar farms on the stabilized sand, and the panels do double duty: generating power for the grid while their shade cuts evaporation, letting shrubs and grasses grow underneath.
Jul 28, 2026
From Salt Flats to Rice Fields
Xinjiang’s achievement underscores a broader lesson: Reclaiming saline-affected land is rarely the result of a single technological breakthrough.
Jul 28, 2026
Tacheng: Xinjiang’s Multicultural Border City, Built for Trade With Central Asia
Tacheng ties both of those threads together at the literal edge of the map, proving that a place built on trade numbers can still hold onto everything that has nothing to do with trade at all.
Jul 14, 2026
Turpan Is China’s Hottest City, Yet Also One of Its Most Resilient
Turpan is a case study in how human resourcefulness adapts to its environment instead of being defeated by it, and in how a regional culture can hold onto its identity while building something new on top of it.
Jul 3, 2026
Urumqi: Where the Wind Never Stops and Neither Does the City
Urumqi is becoming one of the engines behind China’s clean energy transition, while still holding onto a cultural identity defined by centuries at the crossroads of China and Central Asia.
Jun 26, 2026
Seeing ‘A Huge Place’ Through Experienced Eyes
In my view, Xinjiang is a place where modernization is unfolding in every sphere of life.
Jun 17, 2026
A Quiet Connectivity Revolution
Xinjiang’s roads, rails and digital links are opening new horizons.
Jun 12, 2026
Inclusive Economic Growth Breaks the Poverty Cycle
Poverty is not a natural condition or a person’s destiny. It can be overcome through sound political decisions, something irrevocably proven by China.
Jun 8, 2026
Beyond Western Narratives: A Foreigner’s Perspective on China’s New Ethnic Unity Law
The unity of diverse regions, peoples, and cultures in China is a key to the rapid progress and shared development of the nation.
May 26, 2026
Living Archive of Global Exchange
From the enticing grasslands and rugged mountains of the north to the ancient ruins and surviving cities of the Silk Road, Xinjiang offers a legacy of movement—of people, goods and communication—and of the ways that movement has shaped, and is shaping, societies.
May 12, 2026
Sand Invaders to Sand Assets
‘Locking’ of the Taklimakan desert’s edge is a beginning. The challenge now is not only to hold the line but to widen it, to make it yield economic benefits, and to ensure its long-term ecological and social viability.
Mar 27, 2026