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Breakfast is cooked on a corncob fueled stove of a small village near Jinan in Eastern China. Many of the Chinese immigrants to Xinjiang come from rural coastal areas like this with hopes of making a new and better life.

Breakfast is cooked on a corncob fueled stove of a small village near Jinan in Eastern China. Many of the Chinese immigrants to Xinjiang come from rural coastal areas like this with hopes of making a new and better life.

Breakfast is cooked on a corncob fueled stove of a small village near Jinan in Eastern China. Many of the Chinese immigrants to Xinjiang come from rural coastal areas like this with hopes of making a new and better life.

When Chinese tourists come to Xinjiang the International Grand Bazaar of Xinjiang is the main attraction. It's a large mall with decorative minarets. Uighurs are hired to dance, sell melons and trinkets to the tourists.
Karamay, "Black Water" in Uighur, has become a bustling oil town full of skyscrapers, apartment buildings, and neighborhood construction to hold all the new workers and engineers migrating from eastern China. On the outskirts of the city remains a small muslim cemetery, though a new industrial complex is being built around it.

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