The Eastern Turkistan Information Center report

NEW MEASURES BY THE CCP TO RESTRICT EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN EASTERN TURKISTAN AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES

[ETIC, 7/23/97]] In March 1996, the Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee's Political Bureau adopted a resolution which was delivered by the party leader Jiang Zemin on new measures to "Maintain stability in Xinjiang". Among the other provisions, it requires form all the Xinjiang local party organizations to undertake several measures to restrict educational exchange between Xinjiang and foreign countries.

In particular, it demands to strictly forbid high school student exchange programs between Xinjiang and foreign countries. According to the resolution, the foreign teachers must not be allowed to teach in the Xinjiang educational institutions. Local party organizations should establish a strict control over the process of sending Xinjiang minority college students and graduates for study in foreign countries. Only people who love motherland and follow party ideology guidelines could be allowed to study abroad. [Abdulrakhim Aitbayev, Denver]