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 The World Uighur Network News 2009

GENEROUS CHINESE INVESTMENT ON ELIMINATION OF UYGHUR LINGUISTIC CULTURE

2009-01-02

According to Chinese state media, The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Development and Planning Commission released information about investment on so called bilingual education in East Turkistan (Xinjiang)and stated that Chinese government national finance will invest 3,800,000,000 Yuan to Xinjiang bilingual education.

So called bilingual education in Xinjiang is to undermine Uyghur linguistic culture, eliminate all opportunity of Uyghur kids learn their own language through banning Uyghur schools and implementing compulsory monolingual Chinese language education.

It is reported that 2 milyart yuz million Chinese Yuan of total investment of 3 milyart 800million Chinese Yuan will use in early education kindergarten construction in East Turkistan and other funds will use in the Chinese teachers troop establishment. Chinese government planned establish 1237 Chinese language early education kindergartens in this year and estimated that rate of Uyghur kids learning Chinese language in kindergarten as a mother language will rich more than 85% in 2012.

Although Uyghur parents resisted sending their kids to Chinese language early education kindergartens to defend their own language, they were forced by serious political and economic pressure.

 


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