When horses lose their old jobs, a frontier county in Xinjiang finds new ones

URUMQI, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Snow settles at the foot of the western Tianshan Mountains until a herder lifts his whip and the silence gives way to motion: a line of horses surges forward, hooves striking powder into white mist. In Zhaosu, a remote county in the Ili River Valley in China's far northwestern Xinjiang, winter brings a spectacle locals call "heavenly horses treading snow" -- an image that looks ancient, but