Chinese Muslims to set off for Hajji Pilgrimage

时间：2006-11-11 06:01:12

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Chinanews, Beijing, Nov. 10 - Organized by the Chinese Islamic Association (CIA), some 9,600 Muslims in China will set off from Lanzhou, Urumqi, Beijing and Kunming on November 29 by charter flights to attend the Hajji pilgrimage for the year 2006-2007 in the holy city Medina of Saudi Arabia.

 

The Chinese Islamic Association will be responsible for organizing the religious event. In an exclusive interview given to this Chinanews reporter, the team leader Mustafaa Yang Zhibo, who is also deputy director-general of the Chinese Islamic Association, said that a team of some 9,600 Chinese Muslims would attend the religious event this year, the biggest one ever of it kind in Chinese pilgrimage history. Most of them are ethnic1 minorities from Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Henan provinces and autonomous2 regions. China Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines will offer charter flights for Chinese Muslims attending the religious event.

 

Yang Zhibo said that Chinese government’s policy in organizing a “well planned and orderly” religious event was attracting more and more Muslims to join in, and also acclaimed3 by the Saudi Arabian people.

 
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1 ethnic jiAz3     
adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的
参考例句：
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
2 autonomous DPyyv     
adj.自治的；独立的
参考例句：
  • They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
  • This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。
3 acclaimed 90ebf966469bbbcc8cacff5bee4678fe     
adj.受人欢迎的
参考例句：
  • They acclaimed him as the best writer of the year. 他们称赞他为当年的最佳作者。
  • Confuscius is acclaimed as a great thinker. 孔子被赞誉为伟大的思想家。

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