Tourism booms in northwest China

Tourists visit a leisure facility run by a local nomadic family at the Urumqi Tianshan Grand Canyon scenic area in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 9, 2019. A growing number of local residents are making money from the current tourism boom in Xinjiang. Over 32,000 people have been employed in the tourism industry in the first half of 2019. (Xinhua/Wang Fei)