The Islamic State has released what appears to be its first piece of Chinese-language propaganda.

The terror organization's foreign language division, Al-Hayat Media Center, has posted a new chant in Mandarin Chinese. The song (which you can listen to here) is similar to other rallying songs it has released before in other languages, and calls for Muslims to take up arms.

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SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors radical groups online, said the song started getting distributed through Twitter and messaging app Telegram on Sunday.

Expanding on the languages it offers, al-Hayat Media Center of #ISIS released a chant in Chinese entitled, "Mujahid" pic.twitter.com/HwmKqkgk0g — SITE Intel Group (@siteintelgroup) December 6, 2015

Several Chinese netizens on Weibo discussing the song said the singer's accent and intonation appears to indicate he's a mainlander.

China foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying spoke at a press briefing on Monday addressing the song, saying that she was unaware of it. "We hope we can safeguard the citizens of every country through international cooperation," she was quoted as saying in the Wall Street Journal.

Other Asian languages listed on the Al-Hayat poster besides Mandarin include Uyghur (the Uighur language), Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.

Choosing Mandarin for the new song is a possible indication of ISIS' intentions to reach a broader base in China. It has released previous propaganda targeting the minority Muslim Uighurs in China, but those were in Uyghur, not Mandarin.

According to estimates, there are some 23 million Muslims in the country, many of those residing in the Xinjiang region, where over half its people belongs to the Uighur community. The Uighurs are an ethnic group with ties to Turkey and commonly speak Uyghur. They're also a minority group in China, whose population is majority Han and speaks Mandarin.

In June, ISIS released a video starring its "oldest jihadi," an 80-year-old man from Xinjiang. The man speaks in a Turkic language in the video describing his journey from Xinjiang to joining the fighters in Syria.

ISIS' campaign in China picks at a fragile thread between the Uighurs and the government, which has come to violent clashes in recent years. The Uighur community has said Beijing's policies are repressive — charges the government has repeatedly denied.

The government's decision to ban burqas in Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi in January resulted in a huge backlash from residents. In November, it reportedly started shutting down phone service for Xinjiang residents who downloaded foreign messenger apps like WhatsApp.

In September, Beijing also handed down a life sentence to Ilham Tohti, a Uighur Muslim professor known for his attempts to promote dialogue between Uighurs and Chinese intellectuals. Analysts and scholars have said that moves like this to clamp down on discussions on ethnic tensions could end up radicalizing minority groups.

But while there are no confirmed numbers on how many Chinese fighters have joined ISIS, there are reports that people have gone to Syria to take up arms. Last year, China's Special Envoy to the Middle East said in a South China Morning Post report that there were an estimated 100 militants from China in the Middle East. He added that most of them were Uighurs — a remark that was criticized by the World Uygur Congress for being "politically motivated" to ostracize Uighurs.

ISIS has also been trying to provoke China. In November, it publicized a picture of a captive Chinese man in its English-language magazine, Dabiq, saying he was "abandoned" by his nation. It later said it executed the Beijinger, identified as Fan Jinghui.

The Chinese government responded by condemning the move, in a statement.