Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying has again denied high-profile human rights persecution in Xinjiang, claiming that “the Uighur population has been growing continuously,” and Xinjiang officials have reiterated that the Uighur population increased by about 25 percent from 2010 to 2018, refuting “genocide.” The accusations.
According to the Xinjiang Statistical Yearbook 2019 released by the Xinjiang Bureau of Statistics, the Uyghur population in Xinjiang increased by 14.82 percent from 2010 to 2018, while a study published by the Xinjiang Development Research Center on the Xinjiang Social Science Network on the demographic problems in Xinjiang claimed that the Uyghur population increased by 25.04 percent from 2010 to 2018. . Apparently CCP officials have been citing the latter data.
The figure shows a table of Xinjiang’s population numbers by ethnic group in important years, with the first column showing Uyghur data, labeled 11,678,600 in 2018, an obvious difference of more than 1 million from the 12,718,400 quoted by CCP officials recently. (Xinjiang Autonomous Region Bureau of Statistics)
2018 Xinjiang Uyghur population numbers reported by two agencies differ by 1 million people!!!
A report released by the Xinjiang Development Research Center on September 3, 2020, mentions that “from 2010-2018, the Uyghur population rose from 10,171,500 to 12,718,400, with an increase of 2,546,900 or 25.04 percent during that period.”
This is a figure that has been repeatedly cited in recent days by the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Ministry’s war wolves Hua Chunying and Zhao Lijian, and Xinjiang government information office spokesman Yilijiang, to refute outside accusations of persecution of Uyghurs, and to attack a study by German scholar Adrian Zenz.
According to the statistical yearbook released by the Xinjiang Bureau of Statistics on June 10, 2020, the Uyghur population in Xinjiang was 10,171,500 in 2010, but in 2018 it was 11,678,600, an increase of 1,507,100, or 14.82 percent.
Obviously, the two institutions mentioned above had the same population in 2010, but there was a difference of 1.04 million people in 2018.
Xinjiang’s Uyghur birth rate drops by 50% in 2017-2019
The Voice of America earlier cited an independent report that said the birth rate in Xinjiang fell by nearly 50 percent between 2017 and 2019, from 15.88 per 1,000 to 8.14 per 1,000, claiming that the data showed the Communist government was implementing a “genocidal” policy against the Uyghurs, including forced sterilization.
Citing data from the Communist Party’s Xinjiang Statistical Yearbook, the newspaper said that population growth in some areas has shrunk more severely than the average for the entire region, especially in counties and cities with predominantly Uyghur, rural populations.
For example, in the Hotan region of southern Xinjiang, which has a 97 percent Uyghur population and a 78 percent rural population, its birth rate and natural population growth rate were only 8.58 percent and 2.96 percent, respectively, by 2018, while the birth rate and natural population growth rate in this region were above 20 percent and 15 percent, respectively, before 2017.
Another source pointed out that if one compares the first census in 1953 and the 2019 census statistics from the beginning of CCP rule in Xinjiang, the Uyghur population in Xinjiang has only grown by about 3.5 times, while the Han population has grown by 27 times.
During the 70 years of totalitarian rule by the CCP, a large number of Han Chinese also experienced involuntary migration, such as the flight of more than 700,000 famine victims to Xinjiang from 1959 to 1961, the migration of about one million people from various provinces during the Cultural Revolution, and the establishment of the Xinjiang Military Region’s Production and Construction Corps, which was joined by more than 400,000 Han Chinese in the early days and is still a “paramilitary organization To date, the number of regiments in this “paramilitary organization” and state-owned enterprise status has exceeded 3.2 million.
Shao Jiang, the founder of the British “Hua Wei Tibetan Solidarity Association,” alleges that the Chinese Communist Party has used the Han Chinese to gradually eliminate the social, economic, cultural, and faith of the Uyghurs in a colonial manner, and that state-owned enterprises and regiments controlled by the authorities have taken up all of Xinjiang’s resources.
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