In a village near the ancient Silk Road town of Yarkand, on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in the far-western region of Xinjiang, the gongzuodui has been busy. The term means “work team”. In ...

Some of the aluminum in the car you drive to work, school, or the grocery store may have been produced through the forced labor of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China. The ...

BEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) - China on Tuesday set out plans to develop a free trade zone in its northwestern Xinjiang region, rooting it in President Xi Jinping's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative to ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Xinjiang’s local government to make every effort to maintain social stability and strengthen governance, aiming to advance the autonomous region’s development.

A recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has implicated major automakers, including Toyota, General Motors (GM), Tesla, and Volkswagen, in a forced labor scandal connected to the controversial ...

The automaker has long been criticized by human rights activists for doing business in the territory, where China has repressed Muslim ethnic groups. By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, the Beijing ...

The car industry is fulfilling Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 2014 ambition to transform the country into “an automobile power.” Domestic and foreign manufacturers in China produced and exported more ...