Uighur Muslims are being told to display President Xi’s portrait and swear their loyalty to the Communist Party

More than a million Chinese Communist officials have been ordered to move into the houses of Muslim Uighur familes in an attempt to instil pro-party values.

The “unity weeks” involve workers living with families to ensure their loyalty to the party and, according to state media, teaching them to “practise the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China”.

The introduction of new “relatives” to families is one of many measures Beijing has introduced to promote party loyalty ahead of religion in Xinjiang province, which is home to 11 million people from the Uighur minority. Families have also been told to display President Xi’s portrait in their living rooms and take part in national flag-raising ceremonies and oaths of loyalty.

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