Now, China offers reward for mixed marriages in Xinjiang
5 Sept 2014 4:51 AM IST
A city in China’s Muslim-majority Xinjiang is offering cash rewards and welfare benefits for marriages between minority ethnic groups and majority Hans to promote unity in the province hit by Islamic militancy.
Xinjiang’s Qiemo county government announced an annual cash reward of 10,000 yuan (US$ 1,627) for five years for mixed marriage couples besides welfare benefits but skeptics argued that it may not work. ‘We are no longer publicising the policy, but we will still go ahead with it,’ an official from the county’s government office told state-run Global Times. The policy offers family members of mixed marriage couples privileged access to housing, education, employment and welfare benefits.
Ninety per cent of these couples’ medical expenses after insurance fees will be covered by the local government. Their children will also be exempted from school fees within the county until high school, while an annual 5,000 yuan scholarship will be given to those who reach university.
Xinjiang’s Qiemo county government announced an annual cash reward of 10,000 yuan (US$ 1,627) for five years for mixed marriage couples besides welfare benefits but skeptics argued that it may not work. ‘We are no longer publicising the policy, but we will still go ahead with it,’ an official from the county’s government office told state-run Global Times. The policy offers family members of mixed marriage couples privileged access to housing, education, employment and welfare benefits.
Ninety per cent of these couples’ medical expenses after insurance fees will be covered by the local government. Their children will also be exempted from school fees within the county until high school, while an annual 5,000 yuan scholarship will be given to those who reach university.
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