An online seminar that brought together officials from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region as well as diplomats, scholars, media workers from Sweden and some other countries to conduct exchanges on July 14.

At the seminar titled "Xinjiang: The Wonderful Land and Gateway to the Belt and Road", Chinese Ambassador to Sweden Gui Congyou said that Xinjiang has been honing its inter-connectivity, remarkably improving basic infrastructure and developing its trade with foreign countries over recent years.

Its role as a core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt has been strengthened and the region is embracing a period of unprecedented prosperity, stability and peace.

With the leadership of the Communist Party of China, people from all ethnic groups are tightly held together like pomegranate seeds, marching forward together in unity for a better Xinjiang.

Zhu Yong, vice-director of Xinjiang's department of commerce, introduced the region's current economic and social development situation as well as investment policies to the attendees.

She said the region will keep strengthening its collaboration with North European countries in economy, education, culture, tourism and other sectors.

"I hope you attendees could visit Xinjiang to see with your own eyes a beautiful place where people of different ethnic groups live and work in peace and contentment," she added.