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    Xinjiang Yukun Heating Technology Service Co., Ltd. has participated in poverty alleviation with their technology. The company’s solar-powered greenhouse model project has opened up a new business for local farmers to shake off poverty.
    《Solar-powered Greenhouse》   Photo by Dou Jianbin and Dou Weibing
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    To help alleviate poverty in the region, electricity companies are always ready to solve problems for the local people. Since the beginning of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), the State Grid Xinjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd. has invested a total of 98.6 billion RMB yuan, safeguarding the electric supply for rural revitalization as well as the income increase of people of all ethnic groups.
    《Power Supply for Poverty Alleviation》   Photo by Sun Jiamin
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    Xiyuchun Dairy Enterprise has settled its business in Hejiaxin Village, Luopu County, Hotan Prefecture, providing more than 150 jobs to local poor households and effectively boosting the local animal husbandry.
    《Dairy Industry for Poverty Alleviation》   Photo by Sun Guofu
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    Kunlun coreopsis tinctoria is a healthy product for drinks and medicine. A bumper harvest this year is sure to improve local people’s life. Targeted poverty alleviation efforts have enabled almost every household in poverty-stricken areas to master the skills for growing the plant in their fields, thus enhancing local people’s capability for self-reliance.
    《Planting Coreopsis Tinctoria for Poverty Alleviation》   Photo by Xu Liansheng
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    Hongri Leyou Fruit Co., Ltd. in Makit County, Kashgar Prefecture is helping local poverty alleviation efforts by employing more than 150 migrant workers in the fruit industry. These workers’ incomes have been increasing as they shift from subsistence agriculture to organized employment.
    《Fruit Industry for Poverty Alleviation》   Photo by Sun Guofu
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    After the rural land-use rights transfer, peppers planted on a large scale have seen bumper harvests and brought tangible benefits to the villagers. The practice of rural land-use rights transfer has greatly improved the efficiency of agricultural production.
    《Rural Land-Use Rights Transfer for Poverty Alleviation》   Photo by Han Shuanzhu
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    In the Naan Industrial Park of Makit County, Kashgar Prefecture, employees have placed naans (a kind of crusty pancake) into Chinese characters meaning “Kashgar in China.” As a time-honored staple food in Xinjiang, naan is truly a gourmet attraction and a distinct logo of Xinjiang.
    《Roasted Naans of Kashgar》   Photo by Zhang Guocheng
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    To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the municipal government of Urumqi invited 70 70-year-olds and 70 7-year-olds to the Shuimogou Park where they shared a big birthday cake, sang birthday songs and ate longevity noodles.
    《National Day Celebration》   Photo by Qi Yongsheng and Jia Jianzhong
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    Many enterprises from Shanghai have established operations in Xinjiang to help improve the life of local people. It has been a key component in the Central Government’s overall planning for the new era to stipulate that other provinces pair up with cities and counties in Xinjiang to conduct large-scale one-on-one assistance.
    《One Man with a Job and One Family out of Poverty》   Photo by Jin Wei
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    Fruit growing has become a distinctive industry in southern Xinjiang. Walnuts, dates, pomegranates and cherries are all bring in revenues. The forestry and fruit industry now accounts for approximately 25 percent of the local farmers’ per capita net income.
    《Golden Harvest》   Photo by Adil Nadir
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    In the Urumqi Municipal Welfare Center well-decorated for the Lantern Festival, the elderly and the staff are singing and laughing together. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), Xinjiang had preliminarily established an elderly care system integrating home-based, community-based and institution-based services, forging a new model that directly connects elderly care with medical services.
    《Celebrating the Lantern Festival in a Nursing Home》   Photo by Zhao Gang
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    Children are enjoying themselves on the swings in Xiangfei Park, Kashgar City. This park, as a renowned tourist attraction and a key historical and cultural site under national-level protection, showcases the cultural exchange and integration between the central and the northwestern regions in China.
    《Swinging》   Photo by Fu Rui
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    Since 2017, nearly 14,000 people have been relocated from remote areas of the Kunlun Mountains to Aktashi Town, Yecheng County, Kashgar Prefecture. In contrast to the backwardness, difficulty and dangers in the depth of mountains, the new residential area presents a beautiful landscape.
    《A Relocation Site》   Photo by Han Shuanzhu
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    Shuixigou Town in Urumqi County has developed an ecological agriculture system. Growing season is extended in the greenhouses with electric heating from carbon fiber panels. Through the development of such ecological projects as well as distinctive industries such as forestry, fruit growing and eco-tourism, the region is turning its natural resources into wealth.
    《Green Project for Ecological Protection》   Photo by Dou Weibing
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    Local farmers carry pomegranates freshly-picked in Hotan Prefecture. Of all the businesses, forestry and fruit growing have substantially increased farmers’ income, thus benefiting the largest number of people in Xinjiang.
    《Pomegranate Harvest》   Photo by Adil Nadir
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    A residential area built under a poverty-alleviation project in Hotan Prefecture has taken shape. 4,123 relocated households now have their new homesteads and the children are enjoying themselves on their new playground. By attracting leading enterprises and developing businesses of planting and livestock farming, this relocation site has laid a solid foundation for its residents to shake off poverty.
    《Large-Scale Relocation》   Photo by Sun Guofu
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    With a total length of 1,776 kilometers, the Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway is the world’s longest high-speed railway line built under a single project. Since its start of operation in 2014, it has greatly facilitated travel in northwest China.
    《Dream of High-Speed Rail》   Photo by Wang Qi
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    With live-streaming, employees of an e-commerce business sell local agricultural products at the Hotan Walnut Trading Center. E-commerce has been evolving, going from traditional online stores to new modes such as live-streaming on short video platforms such as Taobao Live, Kuaishou and Douyin (Tik Tok).
    《E-commerce in Support of Farmers》   Photo by Guo Jianshe
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    Raising rabbits has become a feature industry for farmers and herders in Suyalangan Village, Hotan City to increase their incomes and shake off poverty. In 2019, more than 15 million rabbits were raised in Hotan, increasing the annual incomes of every rabbit-raising household by 12,000 to 16,000 RMB yuan on average.
    《Raising Rabbits for Riches》   Photo by Li Xinzhao
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    Passing through the mountains of Kashgar Prefecture, the newly built Wugeyati Highway has made travel much easier for the herders on Pamirs Plateau. Though only 36 kilometers in length, it is located at altitude of over 4,200 meters and has more than 600 bends, thus known as the “sky road on the plateau.”
    《Mountain Road》   Photo by Zhao Jianguo
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    Members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) use heavy machinery to transport corn after a bumper harvest. For more than 60 years, generations of XPCC members have made great contributions to the economic and social development of Xinjiang.
    《Golden Harvest》   Photo by Cui Li
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    Shihezi has been a model city initially built by the army posted to this distant place. The Shihezi Recreation Square was designed and constructed over the land reclaimed from Gobi Desert in 1984. After 30 years, it now covers an area of 24.13 hectares and has become a tree-lined place for residents to relax and exercise.
    《40 Years of Changes in Pictures》   Photo by Wang Jianjun and Han Mingxin
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    In 2020, a year of bumper harvest, the grain output in Xinjiang reached 15.83 million tons and cotton output totaled 5.16 million tons.
    《Harvest Year》   Photo by Zhao Dengwen
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    The Dujuan River which flows through Korla City, is now a beautiful habitat for swans. As the local environment is getting better and better, the city is known for the overwintering swans here.
    《Blue River》   Photo by Ma Songjiang
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    Thanks to the mechanization in cotton planting and harvesting as well as the large-scale rural land-use rights transfer, farmers in Xinjiang now rejoice at their increased incomes. As the largest cotton planting area in China, Xinjiang covers to 87 percent of the national cotton output. In 2020, 70 percent of the cotton in Xinjiang was harvested with machine.
    《Automated Cotton Planting》   Photo by Wang Zilin
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    The use of drones has greatly improved cotton planting efficiency. As one major cotton-growing area in Xinjiang, Shihezi City has placed a strong focus on developing agriculture with the help of science and technology.
    《Operation of Drones》   Photo by Zhang Zhongyi
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    The red pepper fields of Anjihai Town, Tacheng Prefecture are alight in the harvest season. The town has become the largest red pepper trading and distribution center in Xinjiang. The peppers, some of which are sold overseas, contribute to 70 percent of local farmers’ income, making their lives more and more prosperous.
    《Land of Peppers》   Photo by Gao Shuguang
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    The decoration of living rooms in traditional Uygur houses is generally elaborate. The upper part of the walls is embellished with decorative patterns in plaster or with hand-carved wood reaching up to the painted ceilings. There are also tapestries draped on walls and colorful carpets laid over the floors.
    《Large New Houses》   Photo by Lu Xianyi