The 1,300-kilometer long Tarim River in China does not flow to the sea but terminates at a lake system called Lake Taitema in the poor and arid Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR) – China's ...

Water discharged from Daxihaizi Reservoir flows downstream to the Tarim River in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Aug 16, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua] Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region ...

Zhu Xiangmin sighed with a relief as the second phase of the current water infusion for the Tarim, China's longest inland river, has since late August gone smoothly. Head of the Tarim River Valley ...

Tens of thousands of waterbirds gather at the Tarim River in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as the waterway enters its annual ice-thaw season.

URUMQI, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region launched a three-year project on populus euphratica forest restoration along the Tarim River, local authorities said ...

An egret perches on a tree in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Photo:China News Service A flock of cormorants perch on a tree in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ...

A drone photo taken on Oct. 18, 2025 shows tourists riding camels at a scenic spot in Yuli County, Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bayingolin, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

A recent study led by Prof. Chen Yaning from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed how decades of land-use change have significantly shaped ...

Photo taken on Oct. 25, 2018 shows desert poplar trees along a road in Luntai County sitting in the middle and lower reaches of Tarim River, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The ...

China is investing heavily in Xinjiang, especially in the Tarim basin within the ambit of its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). For nearly 2,000 years, the Tarim basin, comprising mostly the ...