China issues white paper on protecting rights of Xinjiang's ethnic groups
Political rights
- Over 60 percent of Xinjiang's regional legislators from ethnic minority groups
- Xinjiang's autonomous areas fully use power to govern local affairs
- All Xinjiang ethnic groups participate in administration of state, local affairs
Cultural rights
- Xinjiang ensures diversity of spoken and written languages
- Xinjiang has 133 key cultural heritage sites under state protection
- Right to education fully protected
In 2020, the gross enrollment rate of preschool institutions reached 98.2 percent, the completion rate of nine-year compulsory education was 95.7 percent, and the gross enrollment rate of senior high schools reached 98.9 percent.
Others
- Social security system covers all population
- Women's rights and interests effectively protected
- Xinjiang offers free annual health checkups for every resident
- Ethiopian coffee trading center unveiled in Zhuzhou
- Mouse births pups after space mission, paving way for future research
- Autumn grain purchases exceed 200m tons in China
- Public chooses names for China's space-traveled mice
- Xinjiang's outside investment hits 1t yuan mark
- China reports its first sighting of wild Siberian tiger quintuplets
