In recent years, the Chinese government has invested a large amount of money to create more than a thousand bilingual courses in kindergartens throughout Xinjiang, and as of now, the program has benefited about 290,000 Xinjiang ethnic minority children.

According to the Education Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regions, the State has appropriated 1.6 billion yuan as special funds and built nearly 1,700 kindergartens for promoting bilingual education in Xinjiang.

At the same time, the central government of China spent more than 1 billion on ensuring pre-school bilingual education and local governments also invested 470 million yuan to complete a program of bilingual education.

This year, both central and local governments will appropriate another 1.5 billion yuan to this program.

By Wang Hanlu, People’s Daily Online