Bishkek, May 28, 2021. / Kabar /. Some 40 journalists from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) became acquainted with the life of national minorities living in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China during an online meeting on Friday.
The meeting themed “Seeing the Real Xinjiang Online” was organized by the Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Commission of SCO and Global Times Online within the framework of online exchange meetings for media.
Three guests, Internet celebrities from Xinjiang, briefed and showed the journalists via videoconferencing about their life, how they preserved their national cultures and traditions and achieved success in their businesses.
Salamat Kari, an Uygur woman, has been running the Gul’s in the Ancient City of Kashgar, a home of visitors since 2017.
Her Douyin account, “Gul’s in the Ancient City of Kashgar”, has 236,000 followers and focuses on promoting Kashgar’s culture, folklore and tourism. During the online meeting Salamat showed virtually her beautiful national style home and even danced together with her 70 years old dad.
56-year-old Tatar woman Zaituna Karimova living in Tacheng and the inheritor of China’s intangible cultural heritage of the Tatars became one of the inheritors of the fifth batch of China’s intangible cultural heritage in 2008. In 2012, she transformed her family’s century-old house into a Tatar style manor integrating traditional pastry processing, traditional food production and cultural folklore exhibition. Her business aimed at inheriting the essence of culture and building a harmonious community became very successful.
Ayituna Ablikim, a 30-year-old Uygur, living in Moyu County, Hetian Prefecture, Xinjiang has the family business. She has 1.3 million followers on the Internet. Initially, she posted photos and videos on her social networks about horses, how to take care of them as she likes horses from her childhood. But after returning home there were no thoroughbred horses to film and Ayituna decided to show in Internet the real life in her village, the fresh fruits, vegetables growing in her country and other interesting things, which became also viral.
The guests told the journalists that the Chinese government always supports representatives of national minorities and the religion is free in China and there are thousands of mosques in XUAR, which are open for everybody, including tourists.
The journalists, impressed by the beautiful and interesting presentations about Xinjiang, stressed that they had a chance to see real Xinjiang online.
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