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Perhat
Muhammedi
The Chinese Communist regime on March 1, 1999 announced
a strategy of “exploring the West” and started wide
implementation of this project from January 2001. This
April 1 the Chinese regime called up a meeting in Xian
city on “exploring the great West”. The meeting has
analyzed past developments and worked out new plans.
Chairman Jiang Zemin delivered a speech and demanded
great attention and activities in this regard.
On April 9 Chairman Jiang Zemin told the German
President Yohannis Raw that “exploration of the West”
had a great importance to China and invited the German
business to invest in this big project. The main
objective of the “exploring the West” strategy is to
resettle excessive population from populated inner
regions to the West of China. This strategy implies the
total assimilation of the Uyghur people in the Chinese
ethnic group. The Chinese media states this quite openly.
“The Army report” newspaper says in its article
“exploration of the West and resettling excessive
population is only solution for China”. The article
states that the only solution is to encourage mass
migration of ethnic Chinese to Eastern Turkistan. “In
order to solve the problem of overpopulation China needs
to move abundant population to the Western part of the
country. If the process of urbanization in Eastern
Turkistan continues at the present speed, we will not
have agricultural land in 50 years. In order to solve
the problem of the western ethnic minorities we need to
organize mass migration to the Western China”.
Also, the article states: “Why we have not solved over
thousand of years completely the problem of populating
the West with the ethnic Chinese (Han nationality)?
First reason was a lack of migrants, another reason is
that we could not explore the West in the past”.
Such statements show clearly the real political purposes
of the Chinese regime with its ‘exploring the West”
policy.
Although the Central Chinese government included 12
provinces and autonomous regions in the structure of the
“exploring the West” policy, the regime made the Uyghur
Autonomous region its main objective. It takes all
possible political, economic and administrative actions
to pursue its real objectives. Since the start of
implementation of the “exploring the West” strategy, the
Chinese Central government invested heavily in Eastern
Turkistan. For example, Wang Lequen , the Secretary of
the Party committee of the Autonomous region, told 2
French correspondents in his interview on 21 January,
2002, that investments to Eastern Turkistan totaled 180
billion Yuan for the period 1990-1999, and that only
last year government invested 62 billion Yuan. For the
next 10 years the government plans to invest 254 billion
Yuan.
According to Wang Lequen, these investments will be
mainly used for improving asphalt roads, railroads and
construction projects. He said that developing of
infrastructure would improve living standards of the
local people. However, we receive news from the Uyghur
region that development of the infrastructure benefits
only ethnic Chinese migrants. The local Uyghur people do
not experience any changes in their lives, poor and
miserable level of living.
Even though Wang Lequen told the French journalists that
average annual income per person in the Uyghur region
was around 7,450 Yuan in 2001, the real annual income of
farmers who count for the most part of Uyghurs living in
Eastern Turkistan was about 1,000 Yuan. For example, in
Hotan region the local government announced that the
average annual income was at the level of 1,000 Yuan. IN
reality the living standard of Uyghur farmers is
deteriorating from day to day. The Hotan regional
statistical bureau showed on May 16, 1999 that in 1999
when the Chinese government announced the launch of the
“exploring the West” policy, the overall state
investments in the region decreased, the annual average
income of farmers totaled 723 Yuan, it was lower by
14.99 Yuan comparing to the preceding year.
Although the Chinese government started the “exploration
of the West” on January 1, 2000, so it was implementing
only the mass resettlement of the ethnic Chinese
migrants. The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist
party published in 1991 the secret instruction # 9 with
the following phrases: “Our nation has the largest
population in the world. Population is growing and the
arid land is decreasing. This situation weakens our
economy and decreases the national wealth. If we do not
control the demographic situation next generations will
face serious economic and environmental problems. The
population increases annually by 16 million people which
is equal to the average sized country’s population size”.
The Chinese Chairman Jiang Zemin said in April 1991 in
his report “on the planning of the birth control” that
“The period from the 3rd party conference of the 11th
calling showed steady progress in the national economy.
We have reached the world level of producing commodities
like cotton, gold, charcoal, steel, and electricity.
However, because of the overpopulation we have spent
enormous amount of money on the growing number of people.
The average indicators such as level of literacy and
others are not growing. If the overpopulation problem
will continue our descendants will have very serious
economic and environmental problems.” The Chinese
government issued a release in 1992 “on the planning of
the birth control”. The materials in the book stated
that “Our country has too many people and too little
land, presently we cannot satisfy the need of farmers
for the cultivated land. In order to supply enough food
for the country every farmer family should have 800 jing
of land whereas they have on average 2 mo. If the
population number reaches 1 billion 300 million people,
land lot per capita will fall below 1 mo. There will be
serious problems with providing school education, jobs.
There will be serious shortages of energy, natural
resources, with forest and overall environmental
situation”.
We can see clearly from such statements that China pays
serious attention to solving problems with
overpopulation. The Chinese regime developed “exploring
the West” strategy. This strategy’s real objective is to
move mass hordes of the Chinese farmers from inner parts
of China to the Eastern Turkistan. The Chinese regime
aims at deploring vast natural resources of this region,
of assimilating the ethnic minorities and decreasing
their number. The Chinese regime desires to use mass
migration to Eastern Turkistan as one of solutions for
solving the overpopulation problem in the country long
before it has 1 billion 300 million inhabitants. |
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