Beyond the Mountains: Life in Xinjiang
1 A screenshot of CGTN's documentary "Beyond the Mountains: Life in Xinjiang." Tianshan Mountains, stretching for thousands of miles across China's northwestern frontier, divides the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in half – the relatively affluent north and the less developed south. For some time, people in the south with a bigger ethnic minority population didn't understand the rapid development in the north while those in the north lacked accurate views of the south, let alone people from outside the region. After decades of de...