China’s top security official Chen Wenqing has urged ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang to use Mandarin and called for signs of terrorism to be “struck down promptly” in the far western region.

URUMQI, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region opened to the public for the first time on Saturday.

Ma Xingrui, Party chief of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, recently met with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Phumtham Wechayachai in Kashi, during which the two ...