{"id":57880,"date":"2023-08-28T19:15:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T10:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/xi-urges-more-work-to-control-religious-activities-in-xinjiang-on-surprise-visit"},"modified":"2023-08-28T19:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T10:15:38","slug":"xi-urges-more-work-to-control-illegal-religious-activities-in-xinjiang-on-surprise-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57880","title":{"rendered":"Xi urges more work to \u2018control illegal religious activities\u2019 in Xinjiang on surprise visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visit was Chinese president\u2019s second to the region since crackdown on Uyghurs began almost a decade ago<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has made a surprise visit to Xinjiang, urging officials in the region to conserve \u201chard won social stability\u201d and deepen efforts in controlling \u201cillegal religious activities\u201d. It was only his second visit since launching an extreme crackdown on the area\u2019s Uyghur and Turkic Muslim population almost a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Xi arrived in the city of Urumqi on Saturday, according to Chinese state media, where he heard a government work report and made a speech to Communist party and government officials. During his visit, Xi urged officials to \u201cmore deeply promote the Sinicisation of Islam and effectively control illegal religious activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/28\/xi-urges-more-work-to-control-religious-activities-in-xinjiang-on-surprise-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit was Chinese president\u2019s second to the region since crackdown on Uyghurs began almost a decade agoThe Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has made a surprise visit to Xinjiang, urging officials in the region to conserve \u201chard won social stability\u201d and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,447,371,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-islam","category-religion","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57881,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57880\/revisions\/57881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}