Xinjiang is a vast area that accounts for one-sixth of the motherland's land area.

The Tianshan Mountains lie in the middle, and the melting water of glaciers nourishes the oasis civilization on both sides of the north and south. The Tarim Basin and the Junggar Basin lie quietly in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, "grabbing the abundant natural resources into your arms". The Silk Road has been passed down for thousands of years, and history and the future are symphony here.

The seven-ranked beauty is like a song. From the ancient camel bell road to the "steel camel fleet", from the rest of the world to the prosperity of all industries, from the inland hinterland to the frontier of openness, Xinjiang has undergone earth-shaking changes.

In the golden autumn season, the reporter followed the interview team to this magnificent territory. He saw bunches of ripe grapes hanging on the branches, the white cotton sea connected to the blue sky, the expressway continued to extend between the red willows and the saxony forest, and the photovoltaic panels lined up lightly...

Just like the child in the arms of a mother, Xinjiang's development cannot be separated from the care of the motherland. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to Xinjiang work and formed the Party’s Xinjiang governance strategy in the new era, pointing out the direction for doing a good job in Xinjiang work and providing fundamental guidance. Walking in Xinjiang, the reporter saw that people of all ethnic groups live a stable and harmonious life, share the fruits of development, and build a beautiful home together, and the Tianshan Mountains are showing a new atmosphere of vigorous development everywhere. The smiles of people of all ethnic groups bloomed—

"The grapes are ripe, and life is sweet!"

Joining hands across mountains and seas

Love me China Seeds are united

"When I came to the fourth team farm and visited Ishak's father, he cried so excitedly. Heart to heart, heart to change heart! What else do you want to do with this meaning and love?"

In 1981, in the article "Traveling to Hometown - Revisiting Bayandai", writer Wang Meng used affectionate strokes to record the scene of him reunion with his "relatives" of the Uyghur people. In the 1960s, while living in Bayandai Village, Bayandai Town, Yining City, Xinjiang, Wang Meng and Uyghur compatriots ate, live and work together, leaving behind a story of watching each other and helping each other and being as close as a family. A local public commented on him: "I don't know if Wang Mengge is a writer, I only know that he is a farmer of Bayandai."

The early autumn sun shines warmly on the small square in the Wangmeng Bookstore courtyard of Bayandai Village. Teachers and students from different ethnic groups from Bayandai Town Central Primary School gather here to carry out a reading activity for 100 people. In the middle of the square, student representatives recited with passion and emotion, with clear children's voices and echoing lingering sounds.

As the city’s education base for forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation, Wangmeng Bookstore holds Yili ethnic unity story sharing sessions from time to time to create a red study route and build a platform for exchanges and interactions for young people of all ethnic groups.

Xinjiang has been a multi-ethnic settlement since ancient times, and all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are family members connected by blood in the big family of the Chinese nation. Entering the new era, people of all ethnic groups unite and work together, hug each other tightly like pomegranate seeds, seeds are united and love me China.

On September 5, the drums were heard in the ancient city of Kashgar, Xinjiang, and the hammer flowers were flying. The first national ethnic minority genre singing and dancing team - the Guangdong Kashgar Ancient City genre, successfully completed their first summer performance.

English songs and dances originated in the Chaoshan area of ​​Guangdong. In recent years, they have become popular in the circle with their strong dance postures and are also famous throughout the country through stages such as CCTV Spring Festival Gala. After seeing the English songs and dances through the Internet, Airishatijiang Aili, the captain of the performance team of the Kashgar Ancient City Scenic Area, was deeply attracted. In order to systematically learn the key points of English singing and dancing, Airishatijiang found the Guangdong Front Command for Aiding Xinjiang. In May 2024, the Guangdong Front Command of Aid to Xinjiang invited the Yingge team from Haojiang District, Shantou City to travel across thousands of mountains and rivers to Kashgar to teach its skills. This folk art, born on the Maritime Silk Road, has been sown in the important town of the Silk Road on the land for hundreds of years.

Kashgar and Shantou are thousands of miles apart, so why can they resonate with art? Airishatijiang said that during the performance, he could feel the aesthetic interests of the two places. The team members praised the "self-improvement" and "high righteousness" advocated by Guangdong culture. "Even if we are far apart, we will not stop it and cannot dilute our deep recognition of the Chinese nation community."

Cultural identity is the deepest level of identity, the root of national unity and the soul of national harmony. On the vast Xinjiang land, the flowers of national unity bloom everywhere.

The "Pamir Eagle" Razini Bayika family has been with the snow mountain for more than 70 years. They serve as guides in the forbidden area of ​​life. They often say, "Without the boundary mark of the motherland, there are no cattle and sheep." Guyuanxiang Community in Tianshan District, Urumqi regularly carries out "Neighborhood Festival" and "Hundred Family Banquets" and other "ethnic unity and family" activities. Residents often say, "A star cannot hang over the sky, and a stone cannot erect a mountain"...

The vast land grows vast love. The deep friendship of the people of the whole country is like the snow water of the Tianshan Mountains, nourishing this hot land. Since the new era, central ministries and commissions, 19 provinces and cities and many central enterprises have joined hands to combine "blood transfusion" with "blood production", "hardware" with "software", "support" and "mutual benefit", allowing people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang to deeply feel the warmth of the motherland's big family.

"Chasing the Wind and Riding the Sun"

Towards the new and green, to draw the dream silk road

How long does it take for Xinjiang Changji to light up the lights of thousands of homes in other provinces?

In 0.01 seconds, a beam of current can span more than 3,000 kilometers, from Tianshan Mountain to the eastern coast.

On September 9, the reporter walked into the Changji Converter Station, the Changji-Guquan ±1100 kV ultra-high voltage DC transmission project (hereinafter referred to as the "Jiquan DC Project") in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, and the converter transformer was making a loud noise. Looking at the power transmission lines crisscrossing in the air, the reporter realized that he was at the first scene of "Xinjiang Electric Power Transmission".

This project is currently the world's ultra-high voltage transmission project with the highest voltage level, the largest transmission capacity, the farthest transmission distance and the most advanced technical level. "The Jiquan DC project has increased the transmission capacity from 8 million kilowatts to 12 million kilowatts, achieving a qualitative leap," said Wang Hong, the stationmaster of Changji converter station.

What is the concept of a 12 million kilowatt transmission capacity? It is equivalent to lighting up 400 million 30-watt electric lights at the same time.

There are gold, copper and iron in the mountains, and kerosene and gas in the pots. At present, Xinjiang is working hard to build a national energy resource strategic guarantee base. Relying on the innate advantages of the ten wind zones and five light zones, it opens a new power model of "chasing the wind and chasing the sun", and the development of new energy has entered the fast lane.

At the Dabancheng Wind Farm, which is more than 70 kilometers away from Changji, the huge fan blades rotate in the wind, turning the strong wind at the "old wind vent" into electricity continuously. "I heard that the windmills have been turning a few times, and the converted electricity is enough for us to use for a long time at home." said Yang Hongying, a resident of Emin County, Tacheng District.

As of the end of July this year, the total installed capacity of Xinjiang's power grid was 226 million kilowatts, of which 134 million kilowatts were new energy installed, accounting for about 60%. Xinjiang's energy structure accelerated its transformation to cleanliness.

New quality productivity itself is green productivity. In recent years, Xinjiang has always insisted on taking green transformation and development as an important task in promoting new industrialization. As an important engine to accelerate the development of new quality productivity, the digital economy is also taking advantage of the east wind of development in Xinjiang.

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the "2025 Excellent Smart Factory Project", and two companies from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps were selected.

One of the dairy products manufacturers has built a data ecosystem for the entire industry chain covering animal husbandry, production, quality inspection, logistics and sales, and has deployed 21 production operating systems including AR assisted maintenance systems and AI-driven human-machine collaborative operating systems to realize traceability and collaborative management from milk sources to terminal products.

The country's largest photovoltaic silicon-based new material production base, the world's largest sponge titanium sponge, my country's first one-formed ultra-thin flexible electronic glass (UTG) production line will be put into production... In Xinjiang, where the industry is accelerating its development towards new and green, thousands of industries are surging new momentum for high-quality development.

Based on location and policy advantages, Xinjiang seized the major opportunities of the construction of the core area of ​​the "Belt and Road" and the construction of the Xinjiang Free Trade Pilot Zone, continuously innovated foreign exchange methods, developed a higher-level open economy, and created new advantages for the development of new quality productivity.

When the China-Europe Express full of photovoltaic modules and electronic products enters the Horgos Railway Port, the intelligent station system will automatically verify the manifest data. The customs "Cloud Eye" supervision platform completes the cargo verification through non-invasive inspection, and combined with the "railway fast communication" model, the customs clearance time is reduced by 30%, and cross-border logistics truly enters the fast lane.

The "Thousand-year Station" is a painting of the Silk Road in Dreams and continues to write a new legend.

Butterfly transformation in poverty valley

Good fields and fertile fields are thriving

The car left Urumqi and headed south. More than an hour later, a landscape-like village "sparkled" at the foot of Tianshan Mountain - Pingxiliang Village, Shuixigou Town, Urumqi County. The farmhouse with yellow walls and red tiles is arranged in an orderly manner, and tourists are leisurely enjoying coffee in the exquisitely decorated B&B. Who would have thought that the pleasant countryside today once looked different?

I live in adobe houses, walk on Niba Road, and drink the water from the dam... Once upon a time, this was the "poorest village" mentioned by the nearby residents.

Changes continue to occur. In 2018, the village "two committees" proposed the plan to "build homestays throughout the village". 308 villagers transferred their houses and moved to a "new village" with complete facilities and beautiful environment. Relying on the Silk Road International Ski Resort located in the village, they have achieved employment at their doorstep through farm stays and horse rentals and other tourism projects.

Bazilbek Adeli, a villager in Pingxiliang Village, shared his "making story" with reporters: he works as a ski coach in winter and takes a group tour in summer. He also runs a restaurant near the ski resort, plus the rent for horse riding, and has several incomes at the same time.

"More than 20 years ago, the per capita annual income of villagers was only a few hundred yuan, and in 2024, the per capita income reached 39,760 yuan." Li Guiqin, secretary of the Party Branch of Pingxiliang Village, introduced, "Economic development attracts the villagers who go out to flow back, and industry and popularity form a virtuous cycle."

The transformation of Pingxiliang Village is a microcosm of Xinjiang's rural revitalization. In recent years, Xinjiang has taken the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy as a starting point, insisted on giving priority to agriculture and rural development, and continued to promote the construction of strong agricultural areas. The fertile fields are boundless and the vast rural areas are thriving.

Rural revitalization is not only promoted by culture and tourism, but also empowered by technology.

The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, which started with farmers and settled and guarded the border, is one of the representatives of my country's mechanized, large-scale and intensive modern agriculture. In recent years, the yield of grain crops such as wheat and corn in the Corps has set records many times.

In the golden autumn season, Qitai Farm of the Sixth Division of the Corps ushered in a bumper harvest season. "In our farm, if the wheat yield is less than 700 kilograms, it's a bit embarrassing." When the farmer Xu Ming said this, the face of the farmer Xu Ming was full of pride.

Behind the confidence is the vivid practice of the Corps to promote “storing grain in skills”. The Corps pioneered the "shrinking, increasing the main stem and forming ears" technology, which significantly improved the ear formation rate of the main stem and reduced the wheat lodging rate, consolidating the foundation of high wheat yield. In addition, with the support of technologies such as water and fertilizer integration, the reclamation area has achieved a leap from "relying on the weather to "increasing grain through technology".

Improving the rural living environment is a key task in implementing the rural revitalization strategy. Xinjiang focuses on the rural "toilet revolution", domestic sewage and garbage management and village appearance improvement, and improves rural production and living ecological environment.

In Wucha Village, Atush City, Kizilsu, Xinjiang, every Monday is the day of cleaning, and villagers will concentrate on cleaning the village roads and alleys. "The stinky ditch is gone, the garbage is being disposed of in a centralized manner, and the village is becoming more and more beautiful." said villager Abida Ablimiti.

Today, walking in the vast rural areas of Xinjiang, villages with "inside" and "faces" have become happy homes that "retain green mountains and clear waters and remember homesickness".

Eyewitness said

Changes in the country

First-level sergeant Cao Xiang, a border defense company in the Xinjiang Military Region, Alashankou, Border Defense Company

Alashankou, Xinjiang, is a veritable "hot spot". The cold air in Siberia drove straight into the land, making the strong wind a "frequently" - the number of strong winds above level 8 is more than 160 days a year. The frequent strong winds caused the trees on both sides of the road to tilt to one side in unison, forming a unique landscape, and also telling the persistence of this land.

Shortly after I got out of the company, the spring breeze of the development of the "Belt and Road" blew here. As the "bridgehead" of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge, Alashankou took advantage of the situation and developed from a "Gobi isolated island" that is rarely visited to become a "golden port" integrating railways, highways, crude oil pipelines and aviation. At the same time, I also witnessed the historic leap from "hiking and staring at the naked eye" to "intelligent cloud-based pipes".

In the history, the first generation of border guards once wrote: "There is no decent road in the entire Alashan Pass..." More than half a century has passed, under the majestic national gates, China-Europe freight trains and customs clearance vehicles carrying fruits and vegetables and department stores have been flowing continuously, and the crowds are surging in front of the counter of the commodity market, and a prosperous and prosperous situation.

The take-off of the port also brought new challenges to me and my comrades. Behind the prosperity of trade is the reality that there are mixed personnel, large traffic flow and many hidden dangers, and people and vehicles may cross the boundary at any time. With the guidance and support of the superiors, we have continuously promoted informatization construction and gradually realized intelligent control, unmanned patrols, military-civilian linkage warnings, etc., so as to see the border situation without leaving home. In recent years, the company has been built better and better, and postal outlets, wireless networks, etc. have entered the daily lives of officers and soldiers. Stories such as "signal blown away by the strong wind" and "the boiler room guarded by 24 hours a day" were covered in dust into the company's honor room.

From the beginning of dawn to the arrival of night, the whistle of the China-Europe Express constantly echoes on the vast Gobi Desert. The countryside of Fengkou writes stories of vicissitudes and changes in the passing of time, but the strong winds that continue to be the same as the same.

(Compiled by Tian Zhiqi)

Father and son's relay

Second-level sergeant of a border defense regiment in Xinjiang Military Region Sun Jiaqi

On the Pamir Plateau, with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, there is a small mountain village called Maidan. This year marks my 10th year of joining the army and my 10th year of being an extracurricular counselor at Maidan Primary School.

To get along with Maidan Primary School, we have to start with my father. In the 1960s, the Maidan Border Defense Company began to pair up to assist Maidan Primary School. In 1986, my father Sun Cheng joined the army in the company and became "relatives" with the Aili family in Maidan Village. Due to family difficulties, Aili couldn't even afford a homework book. After his father learned about it, he ran to school as soon as he finished his duty. He not only brought new stationery to Aili, but also helped him to learn his homework.

My father said that the conditions were limited at that time, and the school had only a few simple brick houses. Later, with the support of superiors, the Border Defense Company helped the school build new teaching buildings, student dormitories, canteens and other facilities.

In 2015, I followed my father's footsteps and came to the company to join the army. After the second company, I took the initiative to apply to be an extracurricular tutor at Maidan Primary School. I still remember the first time I walked into the classroom, Aili pulled his daughter Guliziwa over and said, "Teacher Sun, this is my daughter, just like I followed your father back then, let her learn from you in the future!" Looking at the father and daughter, I felt a heavy burden on my shoulders.

In recent years, with the help of the company, Maidan Primary School has repaired the teaching building and laid a brand new plastic runway. Walking in the school’s teaching building, you can always see the figure of “Uncle of the People’s Liberation Army” in the compositions and pictures displayed on the exhibition board at the entrance of the class. According to statistics, a total of 180 college students came out of these elderly Maidan Primary Schools, and 15 students joined the army.

On September 3 this year, I specially organized students to watch the military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Looking at the excitement on my tender faces, I couldn't help but remember what my father said: "Midan's children are like the rising sun full of hope. As the soldiers of the people, we have the responsibility to pave the way forward for them."

(Compiled by Zheng Pengtao and our reporter Yang Mingyue)