Kuqa Royal Palace

The palace’s architecture is grounded, resembling a typical large courtyard of an ordinary household. There’s a raised platform for cooling off and lush gardens with grape trellises commonly found in households. 

库车王府

王府建筑接地气，类似老百姓的典型大庭院。这里有一个供乘凉的高架平台，郁郁葱葱的院子里有寻常百姓家的葡萄架。

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Kuqa Palace Courtyard

This is the residence of the last ruler of Kuqa, Dawut Mahsut, before he passed away in 2014. Till this day, the widow of the last ruler still lives in this palace.  

库车王府庭院

这是库车最后一位统治者后裔达吾提玛苏提于2014年去世前的住宅。至今，达吾提遗孀仍居住在此。

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Loulan Mummy

Estimated to have been in her forties at the time of her death, her likeness was reconstructed by a painter and is displayed beside her in the Urumqi Museum. At her burial site in the desert, the conditions were so dry that her skin tone and even the finer details of her face were preserved. The Loulan Beauty’s ancestry was traced to Europe, suggesting that her ancestors might have travelled to Xinjiang through Siberia. 

楼兰木乃伊

木乃伊陈列在乌鲁木齐博物馆，死时估计四十多岁，她身旁有一幅画家还原了的肖像，美丽动人。由于埋葬在沙漠地带，干燥的环境使她的肤色甚至脸部的细节都被保留了下来。楼兰美人的祖先可以追溯到欧洲，这意味着她的祖先可能通过西伯利亚来到了新疆。

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Urumqi Erdaoqiao Mosque 

Located next to the Urumqi International Bazaar, this mosque dates back to mid-15th century. The architecture is a blend of Islamic and Chinese styles. 

乌鲁木齐二道桥清真寺

位于乌鲁木齐国际集市旁边，这座清真寺的历史可以追溯到15世纪中叶。该建筑融合了伊斯兰和中国风格。

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Desert Cotton Field

While crossing the desert highway our eyes were feasted with oases of cotton fields! It was the end of harvesting. On some farms the sea of bursting white blossoms stretched as far as the eye could see. We stopped by one that had been harvested by the harvester machine and only few cotton bolls were left on the scrubs. 

沙漠棉田

越沙漠公路时，眼前尽是绿洲棉田！那时是收割的尾声。在一些棉田，白茫茫如海洋一望无际。我们在收割机收割过的一株棉花前停下来，灌木丛上只剩下零星的棉铃。

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Cotton Bales On Trucks

Xinjiang is the leading producer of cotton in China, accounting for 80% of China's cotton production. Xinjiang cotton is among the best quality cotton produced in the world. 

Cotton Harvester Machine

With more than 7,000 cotton-picking machines used, the mechanized rate of cotton-picking in Xinjiang now approaches 90%. 

卡车上的棉包捆

新疆是中国主要的棉花生产地，占中国产量的 80%。新疆棉花质地在世界上名列前茅。

采棉机

新疆现有采棉机7000余台，采棉机械化率接近90%。

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Power From The Wind

Nestled between Urumqi and the Tianshan Mountains, a cutting-edge wind farm harnesses the region’s gusts to generate clean, renewable energy. 

风力发电：一座先进的风电场坐落在乌鲁木齐和天山之间，利用该地区的阵风产生清洁的可再生能源。

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Harnessing The Sun

A large solar photovoltaic farm off the Karakoram Highway near to Tashkurgan. Xinjiang, with some of the cheapest renewable energy in China, has become home to four of the five largest polysilicon factories in the world. 

利用太阳

塔什库尔干附近喀喇昆仑公路旁的一个大型太阳能光伏发电场。新疆拥有中国最便宜的可再生能源，全球最大的五家多晶硅工厂中的四家均位于此地。

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From Chengdu to Kashgar

Flying from Chengdu in Sichuan to Kashgar in Xinjiang, roughly 3,000km away, is unforgettable! Kashgar lies just outside the western part of the Taklamakan Desert. It is sandwiched between the Tianshan Mountains that run eastward in the north and the Kunlun Mountains which traverse the southwestern part of Xinjiang in the south. 

从成都飞往喀什

从四川的成都飞往新疆的喀什大约三千公里远，这真是难忘的经历！喀什位于塔克拉玛干沙漠的西部边缘。它的北部是向东延伸的天山山脉，南部则是横穿新疆西南部的昆仑山。 

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