Shanxi youth help revitalize Xinjiang

Since the launch of the "Go West" program in 2003, about 15,000 university graduate volunteers from Shanxi province have been sent to western China, including 6,293 deployed to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

"Shanxi will continue sending outstanding young volunteers to the west and supporting Xinjiang," Zhang Jun, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, told China Daily.

"We hope to gather more youthful energy for national construction and the great rejuvenation," he added.