Urumqi, China News

April 13: A Canadian official, the Honorary Consul to Uzbekistan, meets with Mr.

China's Xinjiang province is the country's most westerly region, bordering on the former Soviet states of Central Asia, as well as several other states including Afghanistan, Russia, and Mongolia.

Zhang Chunxian was appointed to the post in April 2010. A Han Chinese, Mr Zhang previously served as secretary of the party's committee in the southern province of Hunan.

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URUMQI/bole - Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has always been arid, a challenge to sustainable development.

China will recruit 8,000 police officers to boost security in its western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, authorities said.

The China Post news staff--Taiwan will see its first group of mainland Chinese tourists visiting for the sole purpose of undergoing health checkups and plastic surgery in February, under approval from the Executive Yuan in January.

In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, security officers patrol on a street during the China-Eurasia Expo in Urumqi, in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

"In November & December 2011 I headed to China to tour the historic Silk Road that Marco Polo made famous centuries ago; the major trade route of the ancient world.

China has jailed two Muslim Uighurs deported from Cambodia for life, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday, showing no sign of loosening its grip on far-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region which holds rich deposits of oil and gas.

We scrape and squeal our way through the permafrosted outskirts of Urumqi . It is midwinter, half past nine at night.