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.

This photo taken on April 12, 2025 shows a grassland in Baicheng county, Aksu prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] The Taklimakan Desert in Northwest ...

Since 1978, China has undertaken an unprecedented environmental ... Restoration projects, such as the poplar forests around the Taklamakan desert, rely on innovative floodwater diversion ...

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.

Lying in an oasis at the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, Dunhuang was one of the first trading cities encountered by merchants arriving in China from the west. It was also an ancient site of Buddhist ...