Xinhua Headlines: From Xinjiang's desert to economic hubs: a power expressway that lights up both ends
URUMQI, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Across Xinjiang's wind-lashed Gobi Desert and sun-scorched basins, the rotation of the wind turbine blades and the pulse of solar energy feed power into the grid that, in a flash, lights up homes thousands of kilometers away.
In just 0.007 seconds, electricity generated in Hami, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, races across mountains and rivers to the megacity of