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China Expands Green Belt Around Its Largest Desert

A drone photo taken on April 13, 2025 shows a photovoltaic power project in Shaya County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Photo by Ding Lei/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Pepper Trade

AKSU, CHINA - OCTOBER 14, 2025 - Farmers are packing and loading peppers onto trucks at a drying yard at In Muqi Township, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on October 14, 2025.

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Cotton Harvest in Aksu

Cotton harvesting machine is used to pick cotton in a cotton field, located in Toghrakelek Village, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on September 18, 2025.

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Cotton Harvest in Aksu

Cotton harvesting machine is used to pick cotton in a cotton field, located in Toghrakelek Village, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on September 18, 2025.

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Cotton Harvest in Aksu

Cotton harvesting machine is used to pick cotton in a cotton field, located in Toghrakelek Village, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on September 18, 2025.

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Cotton Harvest in Aksu

Cotton harvesting machine is used to pick cotton in a cotton field, located in Toghrakelek Village, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on September 18, 2025.

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Cotton Harvest in Aksu

Cotton harvesting machine is used to pick cotton in a cotton field, located in Toghrakelek Village, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on September 18, 2025.

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Cotton Harvest in Aksu

Cotton harvesting machine is used to pick cotton in a cotton field, located in Toghrakelek Village, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on September 18, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a workshop of a textile company in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on August 21, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a workshop of a textile company in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on August 21, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a workshop of a textile company in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on August 21, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a workshop of a textile company in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on August 21, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a workshop of a textile company in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on August 21, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a workshop of a textile company in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on August 21, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a workshop of a textile company in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on August 21, 2025.

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Smart Agriculture Plant Factory Opens in Kuqa Xinjiang - China

A technician from Ningbo City checks the growth of lettuce at a factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2025. The factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City stands as a flagship project of paired assistance program financed by Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. The factory enables stable year-round crop production via intelligently controlled temperature, humidity, light and nutrient solutions. As a milestone of Ningbo-Kuqa collaboration, the project has adopted soilless cultivation technologies and devices provided by companies in Ningbo to grow premium agricultural products. Photo by Liu Jiaqi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Smart Agriculture Plant Factory Opens in Kuqa Xinjiang - China

A staff member cleans a planting bed at a factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2025. The factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City stands as a flagship project of paired assistance program financed by Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. The factory enables stable year-round crop production via intelligently controlled temperature, humidity, light and nutrient solutions. As a milestone of Ningbo-Kuqa collaboration, the project has adopted soilless cultivation technologies and devices provided by companies in Ningbo to grow premium agricultural products. Photo by Liu Jiaqi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Smart Agriculture Plant Factory Opens in Kuqa Xinjiang - China

This photo taken on Aug. 13, 2025 shows a factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City stands as a flagship project of paired assistance program financed by Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. The factory enables stable year-round crop production via intelligently controlled temperature, humidity, light and nutrient solutions. As a milestone of Ningbo-Kuqa collaboration, the project has adopted soilless cultivation technologies and devices provided by companies in Ningbo to grow premium agricultural products. Photo by Liu Jiaqi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Smart Agriculture Plant Factory Opens in Kuqa Xinjiang - China

Staff members harvest vegetables at a factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2025. The factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City stands as a flagship project of paired assistance program financed by Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. The factory enables stable year-round crop production via intelligently controlled temperature, humidity, light and nutrient solutions. As a milestone of Ningbo-Kuqa collaboration, the project has adopted soilless cultivation technologies and devices provided by companies in Ningbo to grow premium agricultural products. Photo by Liu Jiaqi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Smart Agriculture Plant Factory Opens in Kuqa Xinjiang - China

A staff member harvests vegetables at a factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2025. The factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City stands as a flagship project of paired assistance program financed by Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. The factory enables stable year-round crop production via intelligently controlled temperature, humidity, light and nutrient solutions. As a milestone of Ningbo-Kuqa collaboration, the project has adopted soilless cultivation technologies and devices provided by companies in Ningbo to grow premium agricultural products. Photo by Liu Jiaqi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Smart Agriculture Plant Factory Opens in Kuqa Xinjiang - China

This photo taken on Aug. 13, 2025 shows vegetables growing at a factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City stands as a flagship project of paired assistance program financed by Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. The factory enables stable year-round crop production via intelligently controlled temperature, humidity, light and nutrient solutions. As a milestone of Ningbo-Kuqa collaboration, the project has adopted soilless cultivation technologies and devices provided by companies in Ningbo to grow premium agricultural products. Photo by Liu Jiaqi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Smart Agriculture Plant Factory Opens in Kuqa Xinjiang - China

A staff member prepares vegetable juice for visitors at a factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 13, 2025. The factory-styled smart farm in Kuqa City stands as a flagship project of paired assistance program financed by Ningbo City in east China's Zhejiang Province. The factory enables stable year-round crop production via intelligently controlled temperature, humidity, light and nutrient solutions. As a milestone of Ningbo-Kuqa collaboration, the project has adopted soilless cultivation technologies and devices provided by companies in Ningbo to grow premium agricultural products. Photo by Liu Jiaqi/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a textile workshop in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on July 16, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a textile workshop in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on July 16, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a textile workshop in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on July 16, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a textile workshop in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on July 16, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a textile workshop in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on July 16, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a textile workshop in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on July 16, 2025.

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China Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working in a textile workshop in Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang, China on July 16, 2025.

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Taklimakan Desert Control Afforestation - China

This photo taken on April 13, 2025 shows a wheat field irrigated by desalinated water in Xayar County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and the second-largest drifting desert in the world. Thanks to decades-long sand prevention and control efforts, the Taklimakan Desert was completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt on Nov. 28, 2024. In 2025, Xinjiang aims to afforest a land area of about 796,000 hectares, including 562,666 hectares for frontline control in the Taklimakan Desert. These afforestations form a part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, the world's largest afforestation program, which tackles desertification in northwest, north and northeast China. Meanwhile, Xinjiang will further widen the sand-blocking green belt and enhance desert-locking efforts

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Taklimakan Desert Control Afforestation - China

An aerial drone photo taken on April 13, 2025 shows a photovoltaic power project in Xayar County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and the second-largest drifting desert in the world. Thanks to decades-long sand prevention and control efforts, the Taklimakan Desert was completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt on Nov. 28, 2024. In 2025, Xinjiang aims to afforest a land area of about 796,000 hectares, including 562,666 hectares for frontline control in the Taklimakan Desert. These afforestations form a part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, the world's largest afforestation program, which tackles desertification in northwest, north and northeast China. Meanwhile, Xinjiang will further widen the sand-blocking green belt and enhance desert-locking efforts to ac

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Taklimakan Desert Control Afforestation - China

An aerial drone photo taken on April 13, 2025 shows a photovoltaic power project in Xayar County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and the second-largest drifting desert in the world. Thanks to decades-long sand prevention and control efforts, the Taklimakan Desert was completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt on Nov. 28, 2024. In 2025, Xinjiang aims to afforest a land area of about 796,000 hectares, including 562,666 hectares for frontline control in the Taklimakan Desert. These afforestations form a part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, the world's largest afforestation program, which tackles desertification in northwest, north and northeast China. Meanwhile, Xinjiang will further widen the sand-blocking green belt and enhance desert-locking efforts to ac

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Taklimakan Desert Control Afforestation - China

An aerial drone photo taken on April 12, 2025 shows a grassland in Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region covers 337,600 square kilometers and its circumference measures 3,046 kilometers, making it the largest desert in China and the second-largest drifting desert in the world. Thanks to decades-long sand prevention and control efforts, the Taklimakan Desert was completely encircled with a sand-blocking green belt on Nov. 28, 2024. In 2025, Xinjiang aims to afforest a land area of about 796,000 hectares, including 562,666 hectares for frontline control in the Taklimakan Desert. These afforestations form a part of the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program, the world's largest afforestation program, which tackles desertification in northwest, north and northeast China. Meanwhile, Xinjiang will further widen the sand-blocking green belt and enhance desert-locking efforts to achieve sustaina

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker works at a textile workshop of a textile company in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb. 5, 2025.

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker works at a textile workshop of a textile company in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb. 5, 2025.

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker works at a textile workshop of a textile company in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb. 5, 2025.

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker works at a textile workshop of a textile company in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb. 5, 2025.

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker works at a textile workshop of a textile company in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb. 5, 2025.

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker works at a textile workshop of a textile company in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Feb. 5, 2025.

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working at a textile workshop of Xinjiang Jingyi Textile Technology Co., Ltd. in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Jan. 24, 2025.

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Xinjiang Textile Industry

A worker is working at a textile workshop of Xinjiang Jingyi Textile Technology Co., Ltd. in Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Jan. 24, 2025.