{"id":703,"date":"2018-01-23T07:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=703"},"modified":"2018-01-23T07:20:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:20:44","slug":"chinas-xinjiang-to-build-great-wall-to-protect-border-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"China’s Xinjiang to build ‘Great Wall’ to protect border: governor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A police officer checks the identity card of a man as security forces keep watch in a street in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, March 24, 2017. REUTERS\/Thomas Peter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BEIJING (Reuters) – China\u2019s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will build a \u201cGreat Wall\u201d around its borders to prevent the infiltration of militants from outside the country, state media reported on Tuesday citing the regional governor.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years in violence between Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, and ethnic majority Han Chinese, especially in the heavily Uighur southern part of Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

China blames the violence in Xinjiang on Islamist extremists and separatists, some of whom it says have links to groups outside the country.<\/p>\n

Rights groups and Uighur exiles say it is more a product of Uighur frustration at Chinese controls on their culture and religion. China denies any repression.<\/p>\n

Xinjiang governor Shohrat Zakir said Xinjiang would step up border measures to create a \u201cGreat Wall\u201d, the official China Daily reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will try our best to leave no gaps or blind spots in social security management and ensure the key areas remain absolutely safe,\u201d he said at the opening of the regional assembly\u2019s annual session.<\/p>\n

Technology along the border would be improved and roads and other infrastructure increased, Shohrat Zakir said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe overall situation was stable in 2017, which made people feel safer,\u201d he said. \u201cWe won\u2019t allow separatism to stage a comeback and will ensure religious extremism never rises again from the ashes and terrorist attacks are doomed to failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cGreat Wall\u201d comments were similar to those President Xi Jinping made last year during the annual session of the country\u2019s parliament, where he told Xinjiang lawmakers of the need to build a \u201cgreat wall of iron\u201d to safeguard stability.<\/p>\n

Xinjiang has been relatively quiet over the past year or so after a spate of incidents, which has coincided with a massive increase in security, including collecting DNA and other biometric data from the whole population.<\/p>\n

Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Paul Tait<\/p>\n

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China\u2019s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang will build a \u201cGreat Wall\u201d around its borders to prevent the infiltration of militants from outside the country, state media reported on Tuesday citing the regional governor. Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years in violence between Uighurs, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinas-uyghur-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.uyghuracademy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}