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The explosions occurred at around 8am on at an open market in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinhua news agency reported.
Witnesses reported that the blasts began when two off-road vehicles plowed into crowds of people, and explosives were thrown from them. They said that one of the vehicles had exploded in the market, while there had been some dozen explosive blasts in total.
The area was cordoned off with flames and heavy smoke reported at the location.
The high death toll makes Thursday's attack the bloodiest in a series of violent incidents blamed on radical separatist Uygur Muslims.
Last month the restive Chinese region of Xinjiang, was the scene of a railways station attack which killed three and injured 79 people. That attack was blamed on radical religious extremists seeking to take control of the region.
The day prior 39 people were sentenced to jail terms of up to 15 years on terrorism charges in the far western region of Xinjiang. The suspects, who had ethnic Uighur names, were sentenced during a rare mass public event, reports Reuters.
The charges spanned a number of crimes, including inciting violence and distributing extremist content, as well as making firearms and promoting ethnic friction.
China: Right on Cue - Terror Attack Mars Historic Russian-Chinese Gas Deal...
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Did Beijing really think it would get away with circumventing American belligerence, encirclement, and terrorism? Xinjiang province in China's west is the site of intense US-backed separatism and one of several internal conflicts the West is cultivating as a means to subvert and upturn China's current political order.
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Just like in Syria, Libya, and Iraq, the West and its partners maintain not only the opposition fronts, but the armed groups that back them as well. The bombing which has left over 30 dead and many more wounded came as Russia and China announced a historic natural gas contract good for as much as 400 billion dollars over the course of 30 years with much potential to expand.
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Why does the West want to ruin this? The deal won't come fully online until 2018, but the immediate political effect of the signing has seriously undermined Western ambitions across the globe, from its meddling in the South China Sea and its stitching together of the ASEAN AEC/TPP, as well as its support for the unelected Nazi regime occupying Kiev, Ukraine.
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A terrorist attack helps remind the world that moving on without America in the driver's seat will not be done without a significant amount of instability, bloodshed, and conflict.
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The link to an article regarding the most recent attack is in the comment section below - so is a report covering America's shockingly extensive, documented support for the terrorist groups carrying out these attacks...