Xinjiang Problems Essay

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Major Conflicts and Policies in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Political Science 151A Term Paper Spring Quarter 2014 Xinjiang is the largest administrate province in China, spanning over 1.6 millions km. It also has more than 20,000,000 people. Xinjiang in English means “new frontier”, which was given by Qianlong in Qing Dynasty. In 18th century, armies of Qing dynasty concurred Xinjiang by the end of long-term struggling with Dzungars. In 1912, Qing Dynasty was replaced by the Republic of China. One of the subordinates of Qing’s last governor, Yang, Zengxin acceded to the Republic of China and controlled the Xinjiang province until he died. In 1933, a Chinese warlord, Shen, Shicai seized control Xinjiang province by the support of Soviet Union. In 1949, Chinese communist party won the Chinese civil war and entered Xinjiang province. In September on the same year, the people liberation military entered Xinjiang. Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous region was established on October 1, 1955, replaced Xinjiang Province. In 1955, the Uyghur were counted as 73 percent of Xinjiang's total population of 5.11 million. Now, Hans are counted as almost 40 percent of Xinjiang’s total population and Uyghur’ s population declines to 43 percentages. Back to the Republic of China era, Chinese communist party used to support East Turkestan independent movement in order to get more supports from the frontiers of China to against the government of Republic of China. Once the communist party took the controls. It obeyed its cooperation with East Turkestan movement and simply used military to rebel the movements. Because the increasing Han people and economic reforms in Xinjiang Province, the members of East Turkestan and Hans had more political disagrees with Chinese central government. In this paper I will discuss the issue of Xinjiang province in three parts: 1) the
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