网络文化蓬勃发展。随着互联网在中国的不断发展，近年来，互联网越来越成为新疆各族人民学习、工作、生活的新空间，获取公共服务的新平台。截至2017年，新疆备案网站11520家，固定宽带用户达569.9万户，移动互联网用户达1855.8万户。微信公众平台“最后一公里”用户遍及全国所有省、自治区、直辖市和几十个国家、地区。先后实施争做中国好网民、艾德莱斯网络引领、网络融情等工程，开展“网络中国节”“我是一颗石榴籽”“艾德莱斯出天山”等系列网络文化活动30余项，示范带动新疆各地开展各类网络文化活动7000余项。2017年，新疆本地消费者网购零售额达569.1亿元，比上年增长29.8%。蓬勃发展的网络文化引领了向上向善的社会风尚。

Internet culture develops rapidly. The rapid development of the internet in China has made it the new space for people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang to study, work and live, and a new platform to access public services. By the end of 2017, Xinjiang had 11,520 registered websites, 5.7 million fixed broadband subscribers, and 18.56 million mobile internet users. The subscribers on the official WeChat platform “Last Kilometer” extend across all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government and dozens of countries and regions. Over 30 internet cultural projects such as “making a good netizen”, “Etles Silk from Tianshan to the World” and “video programs on ethnic solidarity” launched more than 7,000 online cultural activities across Xinjiang. In 2017, online retail sales to Xinjiang consumers reached 56.91 billion yuan, an increase of 29.8 percent over 2016. The prosperity of Xinjiang’s internet culture helps to foster healthy social morals.

　　六、对外文化交流日趋活跃

　　新疆是中华文明向西开放的重要门户，在东西方文明交流互鉴中发挥了重要作用。在中央政府支持下，新疆已形成全方位、多层次的对外文化交流格局。

　　以多种形式参与国际文化交流与合作。中国新疆国际民族舞蹈节、中国－亚欧博览会“中外文化展示周”和“出版博览会”等成为具有一定国际影响力的文化交流品牌。2009年以来，举办了7届“中国·新疆国际青少年艺术节”，邀请中亚四国及俄罗斯、蒙古、巴基斯坦、印度、马来西亚、泰国、韩国、阿塞拜疆等12个国家及国内共119个文艺团体的2330余名青少年来新疆演出交流。2012年至2017年，新疆连续举办7期“丝绸之路经济带相关国家媒体负责人研修班”，邀请了25个国家的100多家媒体负责人来新疆研修、交流、考察。

VI. Active Cultural Exchanges with Other Countries

Xinjiang has been an important gateway for China’s civilization to open to the West, and has played a significant role in cultural communication and mutual learning between East and West. Supported by the central government, Xinjiang has created a framework of cultural exchanges with other countries in all sectors and at all levels.

Xinjiang participates in international cultural exchanges and cooperation in various forms. Xinjiang International Ethnic Dance Festival, Chinese and Foreign Culture Week of China-Eurasia Expo, and Publishing Expo have become branded cultural exchange projects of considerable international influence. Since 2009, Xinjiang has held seven China International Youth Arts festivals, inviting more than 2,330 young people representing 119 art troupes from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan of Central Asia and Russia, Mongolia, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, the Republic of Korea and Azerbaijan. From 2012 to 2017, Xinjiang has held seven seminars for directors of media from countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt, inviting directors of more than 100 media from 25 countries to Xinjiang on study, communication and visits.

　　近年来，新疆积极推进“丝绸之路经济带”核心区建设，加强与沿线国家的人文科技交流。2016年，举办第五届中国－亚欧博览会科技合作论坛，30多个国家和国际组织的154名嘉宾受邀参加。建成12个国家级国际科技合作基地，与30多个国家和地区以及10个国际组织和研究机构开展了国际科技合作与交流，涉及农业、资源环境、农产品加工、天文、煤化工、生物医药、能源等领域。稳步实施“留学中国计划”，逐步扩大丝绸之路经济带沿线国家优秀留学生奖学金资助规模。新疆高校积极开展国际交流与合作，留学生教育规模逐年增加、质量不断提升。从1985年开始，截至2017年，新疆高校接收外国留学生达5万人次。新疆积极发挥包括维吾尔医药、哈萨克医药在内的中华医学特色优势，筹建中外联合中医机构，开展中医民族医药国际医疗服务体系建设项目，吸引了越来越多的周边国家患者前来就医。2015年至2017年，乌鲁木齐市有5家医院开展国际医疗服务，累计接诊外籍患者1.7万人次。新疆举办一系列高水平体育赛事，吸引大批国际优秀运动员和体育爱好者积极参与。

In recent years, Xinjiang has been active in building the core area along the Silk Road Economic Belt, strengthening cultural and scientific and technological exchanges with countries along the Belt. In 2016, it hosted the scientific and technological cooperation forum of the Fifth China-Eurasia Expo, inviting 154 guests from more than 30 countries and international organizations. Xinjiang has built 12 state-level bases for international sci-tech cooperation, launching cooperation and exchanges with more than 30 countries and regions and 10 international organizations and research institutes in such fields as agriculture, resources and the environment, processing of agricultural products, astronomy, coal chemicals, bio-medicine, and energy.

It has steadily implemented the “Study-in-China” initiative, gradually increasing scholarships for outstanding students from countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt. Institutions of higher learning in Xinjiang engage in active international exchanges and cooperation, and their foreign students are growing in number and their teaching quality is much improved. From 1985 to 2017, colleges and universities of Xinjiang enrolled 50,000 foreign students.

With its particular strength in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), including Uygur and Kazak medicine, Xinjiang plans to establish Chinese-foreign institutions of traditional Chinese medicine and worked to establish a system of international medical services for TCM including ethnic minority medicine, attracting more and more patients from neighboring countries. From 2015 to 2017, five hospitals in Urumqi began to offer international medical services, accepting 17,000 foreign patients in total. Xinjiang has held a series of high-level sports events, attracting numerous international athletes and sports fans.