Pakistan, April 4 -- Business owners and residents of Kashgar's old city in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region hope a regulation on its preservation will better protect the traditional neighborhood with its distinctive Uygur architecture and prevent it from being excessively commercialized.
The old city of Kashgar, in southern Xin-jiang, is one of the largest surviving collections of earthen buildings in the world. Within seven years of the launch of a renovation project in 2010, the dilapidated houses were rebuilt, without changing their architectural characteristics or traditional Uygur lifestyles.
With improved infrastructure, residents ofthe old city, which has a history of more than 2,000 years, have started to lead safer and more ...