Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian urged all sides to take a close look and find out which country is the "empire of lies" after the US said China fabricated quotes from US diplomats on Xinjiang.
Twenty-five-year-old Silmha Matruz from Yutian county in the south of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, used to have to take a four-hour bus trip to the city of Hotan followed by a five-hour flight to Hangzhou in Zhenjiang province, just to attend her university.
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More than 180,000 people with disabilities have found stable jobs in the last five years in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to the regional federation for the disabled.
Nine new passenger stations along a railway looping around the Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region were revealed to the public recently, before the line s opening next month.