When talking about the development of Northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, especially in the past decade, people usually produce a string of figures, either on the fast GDP and individual income growth, or its success as a thriving cultural melting pot; there is also another way to more vividly appreciate the prosperity of the region - through the power of image. The Global Times reporters Liu Xin and Bai Yunyi talked with two photographers from Urumqi and Hotan, who shared their photography works and their stories of how these photos captured the region s changes and the happy lives of local residents.