China News Agency, Brussels, June 9. The Chinese Mission to the European Union responded to the European Parliament's adoption of the Xinjiang-related resolution on the 9th, emphasizing that China expresses strong indignation and firm opposition to the relevant resolution. .
A reporter asked that the European Parliament passed a resolution on "Human Rights Situation in Xinjiang" that day, criticizing the human rights situation in Xinjiang and accusing China's relevant measures of posing a "major risk". What's China's comment?
The spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the European Union emphasized that the relevant resolutions of the European Parliament disregarded the facts, created things out of nothing, viciously attacked the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang and the Chinese government's Xinjiang policy, grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, and seriously violated international law and basic norms of international relations. Outrage and firm opposition.
The spokesman said that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the human rights cause in Xinjiang has flourished, and the civil, political, economic, social, cultural, religious freedom and other rights of people of all ethnic groups have been effectively guaranteed.
From 1955 to 2020, Xinjiang's total economic output has increased by 160 times, and the per capita GDP has increased by 30 times, which has historically solved the problem of absolute poverty.
Life expectancy rose from 30 years in 1949 to 74.7 years in 2019.
Xinjiang has an average of one mosque for every 530 Muslims, which is higher than many Western and Islamic countries.
"Currently, Xinjiang has a stable and harmonious society, people of all ethnic groups live and work in peace and contentment, and are in the best period of development in history. This is an undeniable fact!" the spokesman said.
The spokesperson pointed out that the essence of Xinjiang-related issues is anti-terrorism, de-radicalization, and anti-separatism. Ethnic separatist forces, religious extremist forces, and violent terrorist forces have created thousands of terrorist attacks in Xinjiang, causing a large number of innocent casualties.
In the face of terrorist atrocities, China has carried out anti-terrorism and de-radicalization struggles in accordance with the law. Xinjiang has been free from violent terrorist incidents for more than five consecutive years.
All international people who have visited Xinjiang and hold a fair and objective attitude recognize that China's experience in counter-terrorism and de-radicalization in Xinjiang is worth learning from.
The spokesman said that the so-called "genocide" in Xinjiang is an outright lie of the century, and an ugly farce concocted by anti-China forces.
From the first national census in 1953 to the seventh national census in 2020, the population of Xinjiang increased from 4.78 million to 25.85 million, of which the Uyghur population increased from 3.6 million to 11.62 million.
The growth rate of the Uyghur population is not only higher than that of the entire Xinjiang population, but also higher than that of all ethnic minorities, and significantly higher than that of the Han population.
The spokesperson emphasized that no lies and fallacies can obliterate the historic achievements of the human rights cause in Xinjiang, and no false information can stop the process of Xinjiang's development and prosperity.
We advise the European Parliament to respect the objective facts, not to go further and further down the wrong path, immediately stop attacking and smearing the human rights situation in Xinjiang and the Chinese government's Xinjiang policy, and stop interfering in China's internal affairs. The Chinese government will resolutely defend the country's sovereignty, security and development interests.
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