URUMQI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Azizi Turkhon, a native of Yutian County in southern Xinjiang, burst into a rosy smile as he described his current life. "Rose has not only increased our income but it has also improved the quality of our lives," said 32-year-old Azizi Turkhon.
URUMQI, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Amid dynamic music and Uygur dancing, Kurbanjan Rouzi picked up a special brush pen and wrote Uygur language on rice paper at the east gate of the ancient city of Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Yang Yongcai, a local calligrapher of Chinese characters standing beside, wrote the corresponding translation in Chinese characters: happiness comes from hard work.
URUMQI, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Gulnara Tolmacheva from Russia has settled down and realized her dream in Karamay, a Chinese city about 1,000 km away from her home in Novosibirsk. Tolmacheva now teaches Russian at the China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
URUMQI, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Diverse varieties of cherries embellishing an orchard in Xamalbag have become a source of vitality for this small village in Mixa Township of Shache County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Located on the southwestern edge of China's largest desert, the Taklamakan, Shache County has built a burgeoning cherry industry from root to fruit.
