By Uyghur Times StaffJune 10, 2025, 10:30 a.m. ET In a highly orchestrated propaganda display, Chinese authorities in Urumqi—the capital of the Uyghur homeland—organized a state-sponsored Eid al-Adha performance at the symbolic Xinjiang People’s Theater Square, featuring pro-government songs and staged ethnic dance routines. As part of ongoing efforts to […]
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By Tahir Imin Uyghurian As the world watches China’s rise, it must also confront the darker truths behind its economic power and political dominance. While the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promotes itself as a modern, efficient government, the reality is far more disturbing—especially for the Uyghur people and other oppressed […]
Uyghur Times, April 6 According to Chinese People’s Daily, Memtimin Musa has been appointed as the Director of the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Education Department. Memtimin Musa, born in 1969, is Uyghur. He initially worked at the so-called “Xinjiang” Finance and Economics Institute. Later, Memtimin Musa served as Deputy […]
By Uyghur Times Staff | January 25, 2025 China’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor and control Uyghurs is well-documented. Now, the Chinese government is channeling the same technology to automate the translation of films and television content into Uyghur and Kazakh languages. This move is framed as an […]
URUMQI – Chinese state media ecns.cn reported Wednesday that new oil reserves totaling 55.56 million tons have been identified in the Tarim Basin of Uyghurstan (officially called Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by China), prompting renewed discussion about resource exploitation in the region. The discovery, made through joint research by Chinese […]
Author: By Uyghur Times StaffDate: December 7, 2024 Kargilik, East Turkistan – On November 28, 2024, China officially commenced operations at the newly constructed Kashgar Kargilik Mirdei General-Purpose Airport, a project described by Chinese authorities as a “pilot hub for integrated trunk and branch aviation networks.” While state media celebrated […]
By Uyghur Times StaffNovember 10, 2024 China has recently opened the so-called “Xinjiang Hotan Xueyuan (Institute)” in Hotan, as reported on November 10 by the official Chinese publication, Xinjiang Daily. According to the report, this full-time, government-controlled institution is the first of its kind in Hotan, aimed at increasing the […]
BEIJING, June 3 (Reuters) – A Chinese state-owned company announced on Monday that it had connected the world’s largest solar plant to the grid in the northwestern Uyghur Region (officially known as Xinjiang in China). The 3.5-gigawatt (GW), 32,947-acre solar farm, situated in a desert area of the capital Urumqi, […]
In a video shared on the Chinese video social media platform Douyin by Uyghur users, it shows that Chinese farmers are tilling the lands with tractors while a Uyghur woman films and speaks without showing her face. She is still risking her life by sharing such a sensitive incident in […]
By Tursun Uyghur Chinese propaganda outlet Xinjiang Daily reported from the Autonomous Region Market Supervision Administration that “there are currently 2.476 million registered business entities in Xinjiang, including 266,700 in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, representing a 7.75% increase compared to the previous year. Among them, there are 548,300 […]