BEIJING: China has attached great importance to improving the livelihoods of people from different ethnic groups and their human rights since 2012. Attempts to use ethnic and religious issues to create conflict in China will never succeed, said the deputy director of a Chinese association for promoting exchange in ethnic affairs.
In recent years, the United States and some other Western countries have worked closely with ethnic separatist forces to cook up a series of lies about China’s ethnic affairs including that the Chinese government intends to wipe out ethnic cultures in the Xinjiang Uygur, Tibet and Inner Mongolia autonomous regions, Yang Yucheng, deputy director of China Ethnic Minorities’ Association for External Exchange, said on Thursday.
“Their goal is to stir up ethnic and religious issues to create conflicts in China. Such attempts are doomed to fail as people from different ethnic groups understand that they all belong to the community of the Chinese nation,” Yang said at an online side event of the ongoing 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on China’s efforts to protect the development of people of different ethnic groups. In fact, people from areas with large ethnic populations have all been lifted out of poverty while continuous efforts have been made to protect their cultures and languages.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
