The National Meteorological Center (NMC) on Tuesday issued a blue alert for sandstorms in north China in the coming days.
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region announced on Monday that it will offer the highest cash reward in China - up to 5 million yuan ($775,000) - for people providing key information about terrorist plotters.
Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Sun Chunlan has called for efforts to improve ethnic unity and promote the "Chinese national community" in Xinjiang.
The government of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has promised policies including rent-free factories and favorable loan deals to boost the local textile industry and create 11,000 jobs this year.
Xinjiang has made progress in curbing religious extremism with a series of new measures since the second central work conference on Xinjiang in May 2014.
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has recruited about 12,300 civil servants at grassroots level in the past six years, said local authorities on Wednesday.
The frequency of terrorist incidents in Xinjiang has dropped significantly, the autonomous region's Party chief said Tuesday.
The installed generating capacity of new energy, including wind and solar power, in China's far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is expected to nearly double to 43 GW by 2020, Xinjiang Grid said Monday.
Authorities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have commuted 11 offenders who were convicted of jeopardizing national security.
Tertiary industries led by tourism and the service sector played a vital role in boosting economic growth in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region last year.
Xinjiang saw sharp declines in imports and exports with Russia and countries in Central Asia as a result of weakening currencies, slowing growth and slumping demands, according to data released by the local customs office.
Xinjiang police have succeeded in disbanding a terrorist group after 56 days of fighting and fleeing during a manhunt in the far West Chinese region.
Xinjiang police have busted a terrorist gang and killed twenty-eight members in a 56-day hunt, local publicity authority announced on Friday.
China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region will wage deeper battles against terror-related violence, a top regional official said.
A senior official of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region defended a local ban on burqas Thursday, saying burqas are not folk costumes nor Muslim clothes but are "garments of extremism."
Six decades ago, a huge paramilitary corps that now administers eight cities with a combined population of 2.7 million did not even exist on maps.
Bvzenap Ahemet, 19, a Uygur girl from the far western region of Xinjiang, is glad her efforts to learn Mandarin have paid off.
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