Northwest China

I saw this chinese movie called Warriors of Heaven and Earth recently. The movie itself isn't very good, but the visuals are great. The movie is shot in the Xinjiang province which is in the northwest part of china. The gobi desert, mountains, rivers, canyons - extremely beautiful place. This region has both the lowest and highest points in china, 155 meters below sea level and 8611 meters above sea level respectively. This is also where most of the islamic chinese people stay. This region like tibet and taiwan are seeking independence from PRC. The region which originally had 6% han chinese people in 1949 has grown to 45% today. This is exactly what happened with tibet which was taken over sometime in the early 1950's. Here is some info on who the native people to this land are and their side of the story.