Once dominated by sand and barren land, Xayar county in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has become home to ...

China is rebuilding the Great Wall of China. However, now they build not with stones, mortar, sand and rubble, designed to ...

On a sand dune with drought-resistant plants swaying in the wind, 58-year-old Huang Maotao and her husband crouch down and ...

How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely. For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing.

Along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert, towns and villages in Northwest China’ s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are ...

Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built on the same foundations as in the West. The ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

An aerial drone photo taken on June 7, 2025 shows a photovoltaic project in Kubuqi Desert in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] HOHHOT -- In recent years, North China's ...

China holds five contracts handed out by the ISA to look for resources in the Pacific and Indian Ocean sea beds and these contracts cover all types of undersea mineral resources. China's is the ...