The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which compiles the data of "victims" in Xinjiang, is "another apparatus of the anti-China campaign under the cover of 'independent-study'," said Xu Guixiang, spokesperson of the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at a press conference in Beijing on Friday. The press conference, held by China's Foreign Ministry about issues related to the northwestern autonomous region, is aimed to "expose the truth about the so-called the Xinjiang Data Project, and let the reality speak." The regional government has fact-checked 10,708 cases listed in the so-called database of "victims" in Xinjiang, which are alleged to be the evidence for China's "grave human rights violations" in Xinjiang, including the mass detention of people of ethnic minority groups and compulsory sterilizations, Xu said.