Kuche:Alleviating Poverty and Injecting New Vigor into Local Development

AKSU Prefecture,a rugged and remote loca-tion,home to 2.5 million people,is located in the mid-western frontier of China's Xin-jiang Uygur Autonomous Region,where the imposing Tianshan Mountains rise next to the Tarim Basin and part of the Taklimakan Desert.In terms of land area,Aksu is similar in size to Nicaragua or Greece.