China’s push to promote state-approved version of Uyghur culture – in pictures

Police officers standing guard at the main square in Kashgar. Last month, China’s president, Xi Jinping, called on officials to ‘strengthen positive publicity and show Xinjiang’s new atmosphere of openness and self-confidence’. The region’s tourism bureau plans to spend more than 700m yuan in 2023, more than double its pre-pandemic budget in 2019