Iran Press/ Asia: In a Twitter message on Sunday, Mohammad Keshavarz Zadeh wrote that "China’s Xinjiang province that is as vast as Iran and has eight neighbors has ever since the ancient Silk Road times been the linking point of China with the west and its development is based on agricultural activities, transportation, and tourism."
Keshavarz Zadeh, who is visiting the northern Chinese province of Xinjiang referred to the broad existing potentials, and added: "Huge anti-dissertation and water transfer projects based on modern technologies, have turned Xinjiang into the pole of China’s agricultural activities."
The envoy concluded that Iran’s comprehensive interactions with the province need to be further boosted.
Keshavarz Zadeh, atop a diplomatic delegation and some of the foreign countries’ ambassadors to China, had a day-long visit of the mainly Muslim inhabited Xinjiang province on Sunday.
Xinjiang is an autonomous territory in northwest China and is a vast region of deserts and mountains.
It is home to many ethnic minority groups, including the Turkic Uyghur people, but the majority of its inhabitants are Chinese Muslims.
The ancient Silk Road trade route linking China and the Middle East passed through Xinjiang, a legacy that can be seen in the traditional open-air bazaars of its oasis cities, Hotan and Kashgar.
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