Xinjiang posts robust growth despite hurdles

Although the United States took a series of unjustifiable measures last year to curb the development of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to restrain China’s growth, the region’s GDP in 2021 saw healthy growth of 7 percent year-on-year.

As the US and other Western antiChina forces are expected to step up their efforts to target the region, Xinjiang will face more challenges in 2022, said Arkin Tuniyaz, acting chairman of the regional government. Other challenges include the COVID-19 pandemic, economic issues such as a contraction in demand, the grave anti-terrorism situation and the threats from extremists, separatists and terrorists, he said while delivering a government work report during the fifth session of the region’s 13th People’s Congress, which started on Jan 23.