# Prof. Thomas Sargent expresses his optimistic view of the Chinese city of Kashgar

1 Faculty News July 28, 2014 ![Xinhua logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030505.jpg?itok=6NqP0rMN)>

Excerpt from [Xinhua](http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2014-07/28/c_133516136.htm) -- "In the eyes of [Thomas J. Sargent](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-sargent), 2011 Nobel laureate in economics, Kashgar as a post along the Silk Road Economic Belt is no less important now than in ancient times. Sargent has visited many countries along the Silk Road, but it was his first time in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region over the weekend, as he attended a two-day international forum on the Silk Road Economic Belt. The forum focused on the development of central Asia."

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