All Xinjiang de-radicalization trainees graduate, find jobs, lead happy life
Trainees
who used to be influenced by extremism have all graduated from the vocational
education and training centers in Xinjiang, a senior official with Northwest
China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region told reporters in Beijing on Monday,
December 9.
“Xinjiang’s
training centers now offer regular vocational training to officials, farmers
and herdsmen and the public who are willing to gain certain skills,” said
Shohrat Zakir, chairman of Xinjiang regional government.
Those
graduates, with the help of the government, have found stable employment,
improved their living standard and started leading a happy life, the chairman
said.
Setting
up vocational training centers has proven to be a useful exploration for China
in the battle against terrorism and extremism, and in next step, Xinjiang will
conduct regular and open training to village officials, Party members, farmers
and unemployed graduates who would like to improve their education. The focus
of the training will be on laws, vocational skills and Putonghua, according to
the Xinjiang regional government chairman.
On the
passing of the US “Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019,” the chairman said
the bill has violated international laws and interfered with China’s internal
affairs. It stands on the opposite side of the Chinese people and international
morality.
The US
bill aims to provoke relations between different ethnic groups in China and
undermine stability and development, but Xinjiang residents are best qualified
to speak on Xinjiang affairs, and US’ action will not disturb Xinjiang’s
development, the chairman said.
Since
the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in November 2012,
Xinjiang’s regional GDP has seen an annual increase of 8.5 percent, and urban
and rural residents’ per capita disposable income rose annually by 8.4 percent
and 8.2 percent respectively, the chairman told the press conference on Monday.
A total
of 2,385,300 people in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have
been lifted out of poverty since 2014, and the poverty rate dropped to 6.51
percent in 2019 from 22.48 percent in 2014.
Xinjiang
received 150 million tourists from home and abroad in 2018, and transfer
payments from the central government to Xinjiang have reached nearly 400
billion yuan ($56 billion) a year since 2014. Meanwhile, 19 provinces and
municipalities and central state-owned enterprises have provided aid to
Xinjiang with an annual investment of more than 15 billion yuan, the chairman
said.
Source:Global Times
At the Monday press
conference, Xu Hairong, Communist Party of China secretary of Urumqi, shared
three stories of the trainees to show their changes after studying in the
training centers. (Photo by Liu Xin from Global Times)
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