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Amid Western criticism of China’s reported oppression of Muslims in Xinjiang, Beijing released a documentary promoting the state narrative that rejects all wrongdoing in its treatment of its Muslims.
Documentary shows real lives of people in Xinjiang 1 A woman dances on a street in the Old Town of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. (ZHAO GE/XINHUA) As the fear of terrorism in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region subsides and the spread of religious extremism has been effectively curbed, Xinjiang people can freely explore more life options than ever, experts said. "Xinjiang people from different walks of life have been working hard to find the value of life and contributed to the development of society," said Zhou Weiping, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Soci...
1 A screenshot of CGTN's documentary "Beyond the Mountains: Life in Xinjiang." Tianshan Mountains, stretching for thousands of miles across China's northwestern frontier, divides the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in half – the relatively affluent north and the less developed south. For some time, people in the south with a bigger ethnic minority population didn't understand the rapid development in the north while those in the north lacked accurate views of the south, let alone people from outside the region. After decades of de...