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2024 overseas chinese media xinjiang reporting tour launched in kashgar

2024-09-04

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china news service, kashgar, xinjiang, september 4 (li mingfei and chu xu) on september 3, the "2024 overseas chinese media xinjiang reporting tour" event, hosted by the overseas chinese affairs bureau of the state council and undertaken by the overseas chinese affairs office of the xinjiang uygur autonomous region, was launched in kashgar. heads of 13 chinese media from 11 countries and regions including the united states, peru, japan, and canada will visit and interview in xinjiang.

it is reported that in addition to kashgar area, the interview team will also visit and interview in ili prefecture, urumqi and changji prefecture.

on the 3rd, after visiting the urban and rural water diversion project in jiashi county, kashgar prefecture, and the homes of villagers in xingfu village, he yiyun, president of japan's oriental daily news, said: "i just drank a sip of the water here. i came to xinjiang and found that it is not like what some media reports say. the people here are very fashionable and kind."

chinanews.com reporters noticed that the interview team focused on topics such as culture, livelihood projects, and cash crop planting. in particular, in the xinjiang national musical instrument village in shufu county, the exquisitely crafted national musical instruments attracted the interview team members to take photos with their mobile phones. the craftsmen played the xinjiang folk song "why are the flowers so red" for everyone with the instruments they made by hand, which gave everyone a deeper understanding of xinjiang's national musical instruments.

long lihua, deputy editor-in-chief of japan's overseas students news, said that although it was her first time in kashgar, she was deeply impressed by the fruits, drinking water renovation project and local folk musical instruments. she said: "i didn't expect xinjiang's folk musical instruments to be so well protected. i was really shocked to see the craftsmen making these instruments by hand. i just listened to the music they played, which reminded me of the past. through the interview with the craftsmen, i also learned that the ejek is called the violin among xinjiang's folk musical instruments, which has increased my knowledge."

kashgar is an important commercial port on the silk road, a hub of east-west transportation, and an important intersection of eastern and western civilizations. it is praised as "if you haven't been to kashgar, you haven't been to xinjiang." (end)