White Paper: Xinjiang is an integral part of China's territory

White Paper: Xinjiang is an inalienable part of China's territory

Beijing, 21 Jul (China News Service) -- On 21 July, the Information Office of the State Council of China issued a white paper entitled "Several Historical Issues in Xinjiang," pointing out that Xinjiang is an inseparable part of China's territory.

In the first part of the white paper, it is pointed out that from the Han Dynasty to the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the vast areas including the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang were collectively referred to as the Western Regions. Since the Han Dynasty, the Xinjiang region has officially become part of China's territory. After the Han Dynasty, successive Dynasties of the Central Plains were strong and sometimes weak, and the relationship with the Western Regions was sparse and dense, and the central government's administration of the Xinjiang region was tight and loose, but any dynasty regarded the Western Regions as its homeland and exercised jurisdiction over the region.

The white paper says that in the historical evolution of China's reunification of a multi-ethnic country, the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang have worked together with the people of the whole country to open up China's vast territory and jointly create a big family of the Chinese nation that is pluralistic and integrated. The pattern of China's great unification of multiple nationalities was created by the joint efforts of all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, including the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.

Bai Pi pointed out that the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 and Xinjiang was peacefully liberated. In 1955, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was established. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang have united and struggled together with the people of the whole country, and Xinjiang has entered the best period of prosperity and development in history.

The white paper also points out that in the long-term historical process, China's territory has both a period of division and a period of reunification, and the cycle of reunification and division alternates, and the unified development of the country has always been the mainstream direction. Like the existence of princely states or separatist regimes in different periods in the Central Plains, the Xinjiang region has also repeatedly seen the division of local political powers, but no matter how long these regimes have been divided and how serious the situation is, they will eventually move toward reunification.

The white paper emphasizes that historically, the "states" that once existed in different periods in the Western Regions, whether it is the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, the Qarakhanid Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, the Uighur Kingdom of Gaochang, etc., the Chagatai Khanate of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yeerqiang Khanate of the Ming Dynasty, are all forms of local political power within the territory of China, and they are not independent countries. Even the local separatist regimes have a strong sense of The Unity of China, either believing that they are a branch of the Central Plains regime or belonging to the Central Plains regime. (End)