Anyone who looks at a map of China may see a vast land marked in northwest China named "Xinjiang". Xinjiang,situated in extreme Northwest China and the central part of Euro-Asia Continent, is surrounded by mountain rangesand far from any oceans of the world. To the northeast of it is Mongolia, to the northwest are Russia, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Xinjiang also shares borders with Pakistan, Afghanistan as well as India in its south. Thetotal border lines are 5600 kilometers in length.

01 A Tie that Connected the Civilizations

-- Opening of the Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges

between the East and West

02 Footprints Hidden in the History

-- Treasures and Colorful Ethnic Customs

03 Looking for Lost Civilizations

the Footprints of Foreign Explorers on the Silk Road

04 Uncovering the Ancient Towns and

Buried Treasures

-- Turfan

05 The Splendid Arts and the Great Calamity of Frescos

-- Kucha and Baicheng

06 The Thousand-year Mystery and Hundred-year Arguments

-- Loulan, Lop Nor and Tarim

07 A Commercial Center and Its Charms in the

Eye of Explorers

-- Kashgar

08 Uncompleted Exploration and Echo from the Desert

-- Hetian

09 Swedish-Sino Northwest China Scientific Expedition

-- A Successful Moving University