Chinese Ningxia to perform Haj for the first time
This year, about 14,000 Chinese pilgrims will perform Haj pilgrimage. For the first time, Chinese pilgrims Ningxia autonomous region will perform the Haj this year. The first flight with 297 pilgrims from Ningxia arrived in Jeddah last fortnight. A total of 2,833 pilgrims are expected to come from this part of China. Some pilgrims have expressed the joy of being able to perform the pilgrimage noting that their parents had been unable to do because of the restrictions in the past, according to Chinese media.
About half of the 20 million Muslims in China live in Ningxia, where people identify their ethnic group Hui, a recognized minority in China. Unlike Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang Autonomous Region, otherwise known as East Turkestan, where Muslims are mostly of Turkish ethnic origin, Hui population is a Sinitic race who accepted Islam. (Reported by Mohammed Irfan)
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