Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. Today, we're venturing inside Xinjiang, the Chinese region that's now reportedly a centre of mass incarceration.

So much of the population are now serving time in these detention camps. Children have been separated from their family members. I mean, it's real

Orwellian-style control.

One million ethnic Muslims are being re-educated, we're told, and many report conditions of forced

labour.

We were just sitting there like zombies, having no right to stand up until you were told. So just sitting there in

a total silence, just a very zombie-fying type of work. So has China created a system of mass

forced labor? That's Business Daily from the BBC.

What did you get patient to? My sister's in re-education camp. She has been there for two years.

The shy admission there of one small Uyga girl on the streets of Kashgar in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang. Her experience, it seems, is not unique.

There are 13 children in my class who live in school. Their parents are all in re-education camps.

The plight of the Uyghurs, ethnic Muslims, based in the Western Xinjiang province of China,

has become a major global story

since it began to be reported back in 2017.

Accused of terrorist thoughts or sentiments,

the Chinese authorities have been rounding up as many as a million,

perhaps one and a half million people,

placing them in re-education camps,

the aim to stamp out their separatist sentiments and even their ethnic and

religious identity. The girl you just heard was featured in a remarkable film that was made

by the Vice News journalist Isabel Jung, posing as a food blogger she visited Xinjiang last year

to get a feel for what was actually going on there.

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