Musical family: Yumaerjan and his father Yusaanjan playing a cheerful dutar-tabour duet at the door of their wooden handicraft shop in Kashgar. — Xinhua
URUMQI: In Yongxin, a village administered by Urumqi around 30km away, a gigantic monument shoots up into the sky – this is the geographical centre of the Asian continent.
While tourists pose for photographs under the landmark, potato farmer Chen Gong, 70, explains that he has never left the outer limits of Urumqi.
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