China's Xinjiang handed in a report of solid achievements in 2021, with its GDP expanding 7 percent year-on-year to about 1.6 trillion yuan ($250 billion) despite the COVID-19 onslaught, and the region has seen no violent terrorist attacks for five consecutive years, the local government work report pointed out during the fifth session of the 13th People's Congress of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which kicked off on Sunday.