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    Vocational Education Booms in Xinjiang

    Oct 07, 2021 4 minutes
    By Li Fangfang
    Copyedited by G.P. Wilson

    In the southern part of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a key battlefield in the fight against terrorism and extremism in China, extremist ideas once strongly influenced people’s minds, particularly prior to 2016.

    Deceived and manipulated by extremists, local residents were not able to live a normal life. “Those plagued by extremist ideas wouldn’t hold banquets for weddings. They wouldn’t sing or dance; at funerals, some wouldn’t even cry,” Mahmut Saidil, a former village head in Aksu Prefecture in south Xinjiang, told Beijing Review.

    Many people there fell prey to extremist thoughts because of poverty. According to the Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism published by

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