Implementation of National Policy in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region under President of China Xi Jinping (2012–2024)

The national question has traditionally been an urgent problem in China, as a multinational state that includes, among other things, national autonomous regions. In the context of the need to preserve the integrity of the country, the national policy of the central government is one of the most important directions of the development of the People's Republic of China. The article analyzes the policy of the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping in relation to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the period from 2012 to 2024. After coming to power, Xi Jinping proclaimed the course of realizing the «Chinese dream» aimed at reviving the Chinese nation. As part of the implementation of this concept, the national policy of the Communist Party in Xinjiang has also undergone changes. The efforts of the central and regional Governments focused not only on the economic development of the autonomous region, but also on ethnic cohesion and stabilization of the situation in the troubled region. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is of great importance to the PRC in terms of its resource base, foreign trade, and geopolitical position, and at the same time it is a region with a high degree of extremist threat. In order to stabilize the situation in the autonomous region, the Chinese Government has implemented a set of measures to develop the legislative framework, strengthen national ideology, curb manifestations of religious extremism, and combat radical representatives of national minorities. The Chinese Government assumes that without harsh measures to suppress the nationalism of ethnic minorities, separatism and centrifugal tendencies will intensify. In general, Xi Jinping's course in Xinjiang turned out to be successful, many of the previously set tasks were solved, and the national policy was further continued.