The beautiful secondary forest is shrouded by winter mist at the Kashgar River Valley in Nilka county, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region on Dec 1, 2014. With the mist still lingering around, part of the secondary forest sparkles in winter sunshine at the Kashgar River Valley in Nilka county, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region. The secondary forest in Nilka, the largest and best-reserved in Asia, covers an area of 210,000 hectares and extends 100 kilometers. The Kashgar River Valley is home to a great diversity of animals and plants. (China News Service/Chen Hualin)
