URUMQI -- In Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the cotton farming mechanization process starts at the very ...

More than 90% of Chinese people are of the Han ethnicity, but there are 56 officially recognised ethnic groups. When Xinjiang became an autonomous region in 1955, Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ...

BEIJING -- China has earmarked 150 million yuan (about $20.97 million) from its central natural-disaster-relief fund to ...

1955 - China establishes the Autonomous Region and begins to encourage Han Chinese to settle there in new industrial towns and farming villages.

Leaders of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China have visited Myanmar to brief military government officials on the Chinese experience of creating autonomous ...

PLACE News: Autonomous region can be defined as the first-level administrative division of China, further elaborated as an autonomous region that won the local go.

A Uighur family rides past a camel in Turpan county, in China's autonomous region of Xinjiang, on Sept. 12, 2016 Kevin Frayer—Getty Images. By Feliz Solomon. November 25, 2016 12:42 AM EST.