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PRAYER UPDATE AUG 2019.Indd CHINESE CHURCH SUPPORT MINISTRIES CHINA PRAYER LETTER AUGUST 2019 The Salar Minority Group The streetscape is unmistakeably Turkic and Islamic. Along from the Mosque, is a row of Halal eateries. Outside, on stools, the customers are all men, most sporting embroidered skullcaps and prolific beards. Around the corner are hardware and vehicle repair shops, with younger men sitting about on motorcycles, smoking. Women almost invariably wear a black headscarf. If accompanying their husbands, they walk at a discreet distance In behind. There are rows of stalls where this openair butchers have shoulders of lamb hanging on hooks. Opposite, dry farming issue vegetables—chillies, capsicums, cabbage— are on sale from the backs of trucks. The Salar Minority Group Despite appearances, the location is Central China rather than Central Asia. Volunteer Spirit It is the market at Gaizi (Jiezi) the largest town in the Xunhua Salar Autonomous Love is More Than Words County of Qinghai Province. The County runs for 90 kilometres He Directs Our Paths along the course of the African Church Welcomes Migrants Seeking to serve, strengthen and support the church and the people of China Yellow River as it moves into Gansu Also setting them apart is their Oghuz Province. Salar people also live in nearby Turkic language, which is similar to Hualong Hui Autonomous County and Uyghur, but has no written script. Salar Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar use Chinese characters to write and most Autonomous County of Gansu. This are fluent in spoken Mandarin and many small minority group totals only 150,000 in Tibetan. people. Their dress is very similar to that of the Hui, making the two groups nearly In the 1700s, two schools of Sufi Islam indistinguishable. (Khufiyya/Old teaching and Jahriyya/ New teaching) developed causing firece Their ancestors are said to have migrated division and unrest among the Salar. from Samarkand around 1370AD. Oral In 1871 The Qing dynasty stepped in history tells of two brothers who led their to restore order by outlawing Jahriyya. clanspeople away from persecution. They The situation esculated to rebellion and strapped a Qur'an to a camel's head to after 3 months of fighting the Qing army guide them. The arduous journey took killed an estimated 40% of all Jahriyya them eastward to Alitiuli, Qinghai. Here, adherents and sent more than 600 to the while they overnighted by a spring, the Ili valley in Xinjiang province, where they camel transformed into a large white still reside. Others have since migrated stone. Taking this as a divine sign, they there significantly growing the Ili settled there. population. Since then, they have mingled with In 1937 Salar made up the majority of their Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, Kuomintang General Ma Bufang’s elite Dongxiang, Bao’an and Tu neighbours; cavalry sent against Japanese invaders. but their religion and the colourful Because of their fierce opposition, the folklore surrounding their Japanese were never able to capture Email CCSM at exile has given them a Lanzhou. [email protected] to strong sense of identity. A decade later, in 1949, the PRC secured find out what we have on offer. 2 power in Qinghai. The Salars’ resistance was defeated and about ten percent of winter. Salar village networks are the male population was rounded up running restaurants in other cities. In and sent to “Reform through labour fact, by some estimates, nearly 1/10 of camps”. The Salar language was all of China’s noodle restaurants are run discouraged and religious expression by migrants from Hualong. was largely suppressed. In addition to their agricultral skills, The Salar have their own traditional Salar have long been known as system of social organisation that has merchants and traders throughout male family elders, clan and village level the Northwest, gaining prominent representation. It operates alongside positions in goverment and business. the legally-organized political organ, Xunhua has become a major centre in (secretary of communist party, the China for washing and spinning sheep head of the village etc). Through this and yaks’ wool. Its modern mills are all network they have organised transport led by native Salars. The industry has businesses and teams of migrant workers contributed significantly to Xunhua’s for odd jobs such as in the construction wealth, and produces a range of industry. They travel outside the county products, including luxury products for for work in summer and return for export to Europe and North America. International Short-Term Email CCSM at Teams [email protected] to find out what we have on offer. 3 Volunteer Spirit A snapshot of nations’ attitudes to charity is published each year in the CAF World Giving Index. This survey asks respondents three questions: Have you helped a stranger, or someone Civil Affairs who control the you didn’t know who needed help? number, type and range of NGOS’s, Have you donated money to a charity? often limiting them to only one of each type an area. Have you volunteered your time to an organisation? The key driver for the planned volunteer explosion will be the CYL which intends At first glance China appears to have to manage a database of 90 million youth achieved extremely well - it ranked within registered for deployment as volunteers. the top 4 nations for all three, according Supporting Xi Jinping’s promise to to total people numbers. On a per capita alleviate rural poverty, it is mobilizing 10 basis, however, the results looked very million vocational school and university different leaving China very much at the students to focus on rural and ethnic lower end of the list – 133 out of 143 for minority areas by 2022. They are already volunteering and third to last overall in sharing their knowledge, digital savvy the year 2018. and next-generation ideas to raise up the technological, industrial, cultural The good news is that the percentage of and medical development of these more residents volunteering is up from last remote areas. Some of the volunteer year. And the government already has placements are long term, even up to 1-2 an action plan to dramatically boost the years with volunteers often staying on nation’s volunteering spirit. Its goal? To after their deployment. get a whopping 10% of the population out participating over the next two years. Opening online stores to sell ethnic handcrafts, use of drones in agriculture, China has two systems for overseeing modern irrigation techniques, starting Volunteer Service Organisations. They tourist operations and other volunteer are the Chinese Communist Youth initiatives are already bringing real League (CYL) and the Ministry of financial benefits to rural communities. 4 Supporting environmental protection and rural governance are also mentioned in the CYL guidelines for managing volunteers. According to an article in Global Times published on the 11th April 2019, students from Tianjin University volunteered their summer vacation to give lessons to rural residents and factory workers about the theories and spirit of the 19th Party Congress. But what has changed in China? to provide a score. High scores will make Why are such large numbers of students you eligible for perks such as discounts suddenly gaining a heart to volunteer? on online courses, and shortlisting when Free time is precious in China’s applying for jobs. competitive environment. The answer lies in the state guided mechanisms Not all volunteer work is directed to being developed to link “social practice” rural areas and the new wave of social to academic performance and career benevolence is not simply an academic opportunities. movement. Popping up in the streets and communities across China are posters Firstly, the Volunteer Service Ordinance decreeing that not only schools, but states that ‘Institutions of higher learning families and society should participate and secondary vocational schools can in volunteer service. incorporate student participation in volunteer service activities into practice Although the leap in volunteer spirit in credit management.’ Many schools and China may be incentivised, it is opening universities are already applying this. doors for young people to work among China’s poorest, marginalised and least Secondly, a new youth-focused social advantaged. Welfare services, a sector credit app is being built in conjunction where Christians have already been with the CYL that will be the impetus for focused for many years, is truly benefiting citizens to model good social behaviour. from the initiative. No doubt, some This app operates purely on incentives students may find themselves working and does not administer punishments. alongside God’s servants and will learn Big data is collected on things like credit the fulfilment of being part of it. For history, honouring contracts, cheating, those that already know the Father, it plagiarism, publishing research papers, is providing new opportunities to share social connections and volunteering. their love and gain better understanding Positive and negative traits are balanced of his heart for the underprivileged. 5 Love is More Than Words Twenty orphans The feeling in the craft room is warm with a mix of and inclusive. A couple of older women disabilities sit together in a look on intently. They live in the welfare room around a table. Their ages home and have asked to join the group range from 15 to the late 20’s. They are but must first come and observe before working on various tasks; some making being allowed to take part in the industry. bead work, others embroidery. A girl sits That is because the group is far more on the floor, her feet dexterously weaving than a hobby club…this is a family unit. a needle in and out of a cloth. Others To join the group means that you have struggle with uncooperative limbs that decided to join the ‘family’.
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