Xinjiang workers choose jobs according to their own will – report

Workers of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region choose jobs according to their own will,  a report released by the Xinjiang Development Research Centre on Friday said.

The report, entitled “Slanderer Adrian Zenz’s Xinjiang-related Fallacies Versus the Truth,’’ rejected the claims of Adrian Zenz, a so-called German scholar, that the whole of Xinjiang was covered by forced labour.

The Chinese government forced mandatory relocation of large numbers of minority workers from Xinjiang to companies in eastern China in order to change their identities and world view.

This was just Adrian Zenz’s imagination and crazy talk, the report said.

In fact, workers in Xinjiang sign labour contracts with enterprises on an equal and voluntary basis and receive remuneration according to China’s labour law and other related laws and regulations.

And they also enjoyed full freedom in choosing the places of work, said the report.

The rights of people of all ethnic groups were protected according to the law in terms of remuneration, rest and vacation, labour safety and health, and social insurance, the report said.