A new report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that the birth rate among indigenous populations and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has dropped dramatically in recent years, providing possible evidence of the Chinese government’s forced sterilization and birth control policies among those groups.
The report found that in April 2017, Chinese Communist Party officials in Xinjiang began “strike-hard” campaigns against “illegal births” with the main goal to “reduce and stabilise a moderate birth level” and lower the birth rate in southern Xinjiang by at least 4.00 per thousand from the levels in 2016. Before this move, there had been exceptions from family-planning efforts for indigenous nationalities.
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