In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert ... of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe.

China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

China’s 3,050-km green belt encircles the Taklamakan Desert—equal in size to Germany—to block sandstorms and desert expansion with solar-powered vegetation. A renewable energy mega-project ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) is an international collaborative effort to conserve, catalogue and digitise ...

Drilling on a new swath of ultra-deep crude oil wells in the depths of the Taklamakan Desert, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has started after the Spring Festival holiday ...

Hu Bayi, after being sent to the countryside for re-education, arrives at Ganggang Camp on the China-Mongolia ... the ruins of the ancient city of Jingjue in the Taklamakan Desert.