Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is briefly named Xin, with Urumqi as its provincial seat. Xinjiang is situated in the northwest of China and in the center of Eurasian continents. Xinjiang is an ...
About 68 million hectares or 41.2 percent of Xinjiang's total area are considered suitable for the development of agricultural, forestry and animal husbandry. Of this there are some 48 million ...
A worker assembles a cotton picker at an agricultural machinery manufacturing company in Usu, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb 28, 2024. [Photo/Xinhua] The Xinjiang Uygur ...
Mediazona Central Asia discussed the various forms of involuntary labor in Xinjiang with Rune Steenberg, an anthropologist and researcher at the University of Olomouc in the Czech Republic who has ...
Xinjiang cotton is some of the best fabric in the world. It's also, human rights campaigners say, produced by forced labour. Some Western brands have removed it from their supply chains, leading ...
In terms of trade, Xinjiang's total exports to the US in 2023 were valued at around US$373 million - a 92 per cent drop from 2020, according to Urumqi customs figures.
Global retailers are facing scrutiny over cotton supplies sourced from Xinjiang, a Chinese region plagued by allegations of human rights abuses. China is one of the world's top cotton producers ...