Closing the gap between town and country

Embroidery souvenirs from Mongol Wu Yin Bi Li Ge’s Xinjiang Bu Yinku Cultural Communications Com Ltd. She has selected 350 out of more than 3,000 trained in embroidery in Wenquan in the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang,China. LEE CHENG / THE STAR, 6TH JUNE 2016.

THE Beijing Government believes that easing the economic woes of rural and minority groups will help unify the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Xinjiang, its largest administrative region, has seen sporadic riots and insurgencies since 2009 even as Beijing tries to maintain the province’s social fabric.