China’s Xinjiang Communist Party chief urges ‘unwavering’ terror crackdown
- Party secretary Ma Xingrui’s call for sustained ‘high-intensity crackdowns’ follows latest military-police joint exercise in western border region
The Communist Party chief of China’s Xinjiang region has called on security personnel to “unwaveringly” uphold the authorities’ “high-intensity crackdown on terrorism”.
“Social stability must be at the forefront” of “strengthening stability and boosting development”, Ma told police officers in Xinjiang on Friday.
“[Our] approach towards high-intensity crackdowns has to remain unwavering,” Ma was quoted as saying by Xinjiang Daily, an official newspaper.
“[We] have to eliminate all terrorist threats at the initial stage, and push forward with normalising counterterrorism work.”
Ma also called for stronger border security and a “society-wide” ability to control risks. Eliminating political, economic and ideological “risks” were important to ensure the prevention of “structural risks”, he said.