{"id":4067,"date":"2018-09-27T18:15:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/09\/27\/china-launches-anti-poverty-drive-restive-xinjiang\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T18:15:25","slug":"china-launches-anti-poverty-drive-restive-xinjiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/china-launches-anti-poverty-drive-restive-xinjiang\/","title":{"rendered":"China launches anti-poverty drive in restive Xinjiang"},"content":{"rendered":"

China<\/a> plans to pull 400,000 people out of dire poverty this year in its restive Xinjiang region as the central government fears a rise in the ranks of local armed groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

A three-year poverty eradication plan will focus on the northwestern region’s 22 poorest counties, the official Xinhua news agency<\/a> reported on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

China launched a major security operation in the Muslim-majority territory in response to deadly violence that erupted in recent years that Beijing blames on ethnic Uighur “separatists”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Xinjiang is home to about 10 million Uighur Muslims who say they routinely face discrimination along with cultural and religious repression. Beijing denies the allegations. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in violence between Uighurs, who speak a Turkic language, and migrants from the Han Chinese <\/span>ethnic majority, especially in the Uighur dominated southern part of Xinjiang.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fears have been raised that some Uighurs may have joined armed groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL<\/a>, also <\/span>known<\/span> ISIS) fighting in Syria and Iraq. ISIL <\/span>released a video <\/a>last year purportedly showing Uighur fighters training in Iraq and vowing to strike targets in China.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Xinhua did not say how much China’s government will spend on the anti-poverty initiative. More than $960m was spent to combat poverty last year, with about 80 percent of the funds earmarked for four impoverished prefectures: Kashgar, Hotan, Kizilsu and Aksu.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese officials will be sent to 192 areas in the four counties and work until 2020 to bring people out of poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drive is part of a broader push by China’s ruling Communist Party to tackle rural poverty and to raise the annual income of citizens above the official poverty line of $362 by 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

China’s gross domestic product per person is $8,123, according to the World Bank. China brought nearly 13 million rural people out of poverty in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

SOURCE: <\/span>AL JAZEERA NEWS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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