As the weather gets warmer, the breath of spring in Xinjiang becomes stronger and stronger. The Tianshan Mountains gradually usher in the flower viewing season, attracting tourists to go outings and enjoy the romantic journey.

The "First Spring in Xinjiang" Turpan City Apricot Blossom Season begins

The flower viewing journey in Xinjiang naturally starts with the Turpan Apricot Blossom Season, known as the "First Spring in Xinjiang". "First Spring in Xinjiang·Flowers in Turpan" 2025 Turpan Apricot Blossom Season Cultural Tourism Activities and the 8th Apricot Blossom Season Event in Tokson County will be launched on March 22 and will last until April 10.

This year's Apricot Blossom Season event has a richer content than in previous years. During this period, there were not only artistic performances with great local characteristics, but also the Xinjiang Mukam Art Troupe and Hunan Kunqu Opera Troupe brought wonderful performances on the same stage.

Yang Yong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and deputy director of the Turpan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism, said: "Last year, the apricot blossom season drove 790 million yuan in tourism revenue. This year, we added new projects such as night tours of apricot gardens and hot air balloons overlooking the flower sea, and the number of tourists is expected to increase by 20%.

In addition, the Bazaar Cultural and Folk Music Carnival in Gaochang District, Turpan City has also been comprehensively upgraded, combining flower viewing with shopping, food and entertainment to provide tourists with a more diversified experience.

The ice flowers and wild apricot forests weave the spring scenery of northern Xinjiang

If the spring in Turpan is a lively market, then the spring in Xinyuan is like a colorful landscape painting. From late March to mid-April, the ice flowers on the northern hillside of Nalati Grassland in Xinyuan County and Zeketai Town broke through the residual snow and bloomed in competition. They were affectionately called the "Spring Messenger".

"Spring flower viewing season. The apricot flowers in Nalati Apricot Blossom Valley cover the entire hillside like pink clouds, and more than 30,000 acres of primitive wild apricot forests bloom freely, which is extremely romantic. At the same time, the ice flowers are also tenaciously breaking through the ice, and the yellow and white flowers dotted on the grass, echoing the apricot blossoms." Liu Bang, director of the Xinyuan County Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, said: "This year, we specially launched the 'Flower New Yuan' spring theme event, including the apricot flower photography competition, grassland flower sea camping and other in-depth experiences, inviting tourists to this spring feast where the snow-capped mountains and the flower sea are shining together."

Xinyuan County has very rich flower resources. In early and mid-April, the ten thousand acres of wild apricot forests in Nalati Apricot Blossom Valley continued to roll, and pink and white apricot flowers bloomed in succession, forming a beautiful spring picture. From mid-April to mid-May, apple blossoms, pear blossoms and hawthorn flowers in the wild fruit forest improvement site in Almale Town, the county will compete for beauty. From mid-May to July, the Nalati tourist scenic spot will become a sea of ​​flowers, with wild flowers of all colors blooming in a colorful way.

Pear blossoms dance with technology, and AI songs will sing "Pear City"

In mid-April, on many main roads of Korla City, "Pear City" located in southern Xinjiang, there will be a spectacular scene of thousands of pear blossoms blooming. At that time, the entire city will have a fragrance of flowers, passing through it, like walking on a sea of ​​flowers. Next to Tiekeqi Bridge in the Swan River Scenic Area and next to the Yong'an Tower in Hongyan River are excellent places to enjoy flowers. In the Awati Township, the city will have hundreds of thousands of acres of pear blossoms in full bloom.

In 2025, the cultural and tourism department of Korla City and technology enterprises jointly created the AI ​​song "Pear Blossoms All over the City". Feng Wulin, director of the Korla Municipal Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism, said: "The 2025 Korla 'Pear Blossom Season' is themed "Leave the weekend to Korla and spend the pears and enjoy good time together". The activities are exciting, covering art performances, shopping and entertainment activities, a number of sports events, cultural experience activities, and the tour of the Russian National St. Petersburg Youth Song and Dance Troupe, etc. We also launched four special lines for flower viewing and photography for tourists."

Invite the "Light White Apricot Town" Flower Viewing and Check-in

From March 22 to 31, the "Light White Apricot Town" "Light White Apricot Town" "Light White Apricot Demonstration Base in Toknai Village, Yaha Town, Kuqa City will hold a series of apricot culture tourism activities "Apricot Rhyme Ancient Kucha·Invite the Spring Scenery" apricot flower culture tourism activities. Yaha Town planted 25,000 mu of small white apricots, accounting for 25% of the planting area in Kuqa City. The apricot blossoms opened about 10 days earlier than the surrounding townships.

According to Pang Tao, deputy director of the Kuche City Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, during the event, tourists can taste special food, visit agricultural and sideline products exhibitions, throw hydrangeas in the apricot flower forest, participate in the apricot flower concert, and also grow kites in the apricot flower forest. Visitors can also redeem small gifts or big apricot flower gift packs by forwarding the event preheating video or taking photos on site.

In addition, from mid-to-late March to mid-September, whether it is the apricot blossoms in Tashkurgan County, the tulips of Sailimu Lake, the golden lotus and primrose in Tekes County, the lavender in Huocheng County, the rape flowers and sunflowers in Zhaosu County, the subsequent flower viewing trips from various parts of Xinjiang will accompany tourists all the way to "Poetry and the Distant Land".

(Reporter Wang Xiaojun)