Urumqi

Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. It is the nearest city to The Asian continent geographical center. Lies in the northern foot of the Tianshan mountain. When there is nice weather, you can see the mountain peaks covered with snow in the city. Urumqi is the biggest city in the region with about four million populations. It is the political, traffic, economic, cultural, educational center of Xinjiang province. Urumqi is the spelling of ancient Jungar Mongolian language that means “beautiful pastures”.
Urumqi is also a national civilized city, a national garden city, a national model city for supporting both sides, an excellent tourist city in China, and a model city for national unity and progress. Urumqi is an important tourism distribution center and destination in Xinjiang and even the whole country. The Tianshan Mountains are distributed with alpine ice and snow landscape, mountain forest landscape and grassland landscape, which provide rich content for tourists’ sightseeing and exploration. The ice and snow tour along the Silk Road, the Silk Road clothing festival and other festivals and exhibitions with the cultural characteristics of the silk road have become the unique city card of Urumqi.