Over 2,000 ancient religious books preserved in Xinjiang - China News
2021-03-11 08:35:18 GMT2021-03-11 16:35:18(Beijing Time) Xinhua English URUMQI, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Under efforts to protect ancient religious books, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has collected and cataloged more than 2,000 Islamic tomes. Over the past 30 years, the central government and Xinjiang's regional government have allocated more than 10 million yuan (1.5 million U.S. dollars) to the collection, registration, collation and publication of ancient religious books, said Abulat Esan, director of the office of the leading group for the collection, collation an...