Urumqi Business News

With China expecting a record 6.99 million students to graduate from college this summer, hopes are high that many of them can be attracted to work in the country's less-developed west. Recent years have seen a number of government initiatives...

Most of the farmland which was seized and flattened contained crops which were ready for harvesting, according to residents of Baykol village, situated in Qaradong township in Ghulja city within the Ili prefecture. The residents accused the village chief of...

The process of opening-up linking the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region with China's central and south Asian neighbors is set to accelerate, as the State Council on Saturday unveiled guidelines giving more support to the construction of two economic development zones...

September 3, 2011 The Hindu In People's Square at the heart of Kashgar, a sign calls to "accelerate the development of Kashgar's Special Economic Zone" and to transform the city into a "model" international city. Photo: Ananth Krishnan At sunset,...

High-ranking officials from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member nations and experts on Friday called for the establishment of a massive free-trade area (FTA) across the region to facilitate trade among one-fourth of the world's population. "China believes the relevant...