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Policy of “exploring the West” is the strategy of
total subjugation of Eastern Turkistan to China.
By, 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 Uighur 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
Uighur 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 Uighur
region that development of the infrastructure benefits
only ethnic Chinese migrants. The local Uighur 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 Uighur
region was around 7,450 Yuan in 2001, the real annual
income of farmers who count for the most part of
Uighurs 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 Uighur 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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