Eighty-one-year-old Shi Huifang could never forget her life-changing decision to venture out into Xinjiang, a remote and bare land to her in northwest China, some six decades ago
Beijing Review reporters have recently visited Xinjiang, recording what is happening there through photos, videos and stories to share with ours readers
Xinjiang has realized the full coverage of nine-year compulsory education around the region and the four prefectures in its southern part provide a 15-year-long free education to all children from kindergarten all the way up to senior middle school
Given Xinjiang's strategic position and increased connectivity with Central Asia, the region is no longer a landlocked backwater; but becoming a land-linked logistics hub
