East Turkistan's mines are being distributed to Chinese companies with mutual support.

China is accelerating the pace of plundering various mines in East Turkistan and is transferring the exploitation rights to Chinese companies in large numbers. This week, it held a special meeting to gather Chinese mining companies in Urumqi.

According to a report by the so-called "Xinjiang Daily", a Chinese media outlet, the 2025 Annual Conference of Chinese Mining Explorers was held in Urumqi from June 12 to 14, and a presentation session on the transfer of mining rights in East Turkistan was also held simultaneously.

The puppet chairman of the so-called "Uyghur Autonomous Region" made a free speech at the meeting, claiming that East Turkistan has high mineral resource advantages and huge potential, making it the main battlefield for China's new round of strategic action to make breakthroughs in mineral exploration, and that the opening of this annual conference is a rare opportunity for Chinese companies to explore and explore mineral resources in East Turkistan.

The meeting was attended by officials from Chinese ministerial agencies, representatives of Chinese companies, and mining experts. At the presentation meeting for the projects involving the contracting of mining rights in East Turkistan to Chinese companies, 162 development projects were introduced. These projects involve major mineral resources, including oil and natural gas, coal, copper, gold, and nickel.

China held a promotion meeting in March this year to promote the mining rights transfer scheme in East Turkistan, during which the transfer scheme for more than 170 mines, including rare metal mines such as copper, iron, gold, and lithium, was prominently promoted. According to data released by China, in 2024, the ownership of 558 mines throughout East Turkestan was transferred to Chinese companies.

While China is relentlessly plundering the resources of East Turkistan, the people of East Turkistan, who are the true owners of vast natural resources, are living in poverty. In addition, China's mining activities in East Turkistan are being blamed for forced labor, and a new report released this week by the Global Rights Watch highlighted that mineral exploration and processing activities in East Turkistan are a systematic forced labor mechanism that primarily targets Uyghurs and other Turkic ethnic groups.