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Pingliang is a small city on the border between Gansu and Shaanxi province \u2013 one of China\u2019s poorest areas.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cIt seems that the officials are not interested in talking to us at all,\u201d said a teacher who requested anonymity.<\/h4>\n<h4>In an effort to save the school from closure, teachers last week sent a petition containing more than 1,000 signatures to the education bureau.<\/h4>\n<h4>The demise of Arabic language schools is a symptom of Beijing\u2019s increased control of Muslim-populated regions and was urged on by a call three years ago from President Xi Jinping to \u201cSinicise religions\u201d, assimilating them with traditional Chinese culture and socialist values.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pingliang Arabic School, a charity that caters to underprivileged students, has been told by city education officials to close by December 17 and send its 200 students and 20 teachers home. \u00a0 Pingliang Arabic School, a charity that caters to underprivileged students, has been told by city education officials to close by December 17 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[626,125,205,357],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-arabic","tag-china","tag-muslim","tag-school"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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