BEIJING: China's State Council Information Office on Sunday issued a white paper detailing the demographic development in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang's population growth from 2000 to 2020 was 1.15 percentage points higher than the national average in the compound annual growth rate (CAGR), said the white paper. The growth rate was much higher than that of the country's ethnic minority population, which stood at 0.83 percent, said the document. Xinjiang's demographic development marks the success of a unified multiethnic country in ensuring the healthy population growth of its ethnic minorities. These malicious efforts will not succeed and truth will prevail over falsehoods, said the white paper.

Source: Manila Times September 26, 2021 04:52 UTC