China announces plan to transform Uyghur communities this year

In recent years, China has been forcibly demolishing Uyghur-style houses and residential areas under the so-called "old residential area renovation" program, converting them to Chinese style. The Chinese regime has now announced plans to transform 258 old residential areas in East Turkistan's cities and towns in 2025.
According to Tengritagh Network's January 26 report, the so-called "Uyghur Autonomous Region" Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Administration announced plans to continue vigorously implementing the transformation of old residential areas in East Turkistan's cities and towns in 2025, targeting 258 old residential areas. This Chinese plan affects 76,000 residents, including 18,000 residents in 118 residential areas in southern East Turkistan.
According to the report, since the Chinese regime began demolishing Uyghur-style houses and destroying Uyghur neighborhoods in 2019 under the name of "urban old residential area renovation" in East Turkistan, they have forcibly transformed a total of 6,888 residential areas by the end of 2024, affecting 1,166,700 residents. In 2024 alone, through mandatory implementation by the "Uyghur Autonomous Region" Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Administration, 857 residential areas were transformed, affecting 193,800 residents.
Officials related to these crimes in East Turkistan have announced their commitment to firmly maintaining the residential area transformation work according to the 2025 plan.
In recent years, the Chinese regime has imprisoned large numbers of East Turkistan people in prisons and concentration camps, forcing them through various means to abandon their religious and national values and culture, eliminating those who express dissent, while forcibly demolishing or converting Uyghur-Islamic style houses and courtyards to Chinese style under various pretexts. Circulating videos and China's related policies demonstrate that the genocide in East Turkistan has not diminished at all, and China continues to implement it vigorously in various ways this year as well.
Observers note that through the destruction of Uyghur neighborhoods in East Turkistan, China is attempting to destroy historical traces, neighborhood culture, and architectural heritage while also aiming to achieve its malicious goals of economically weakening the people, implementing more effective control and surveillance, and reducing population ratios.