Fight terror on two fronts

FOUR OF THE FIVE CULPRITS OF THE TERRORIST attack on Thursday came from a poverty-stricken county in the south of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Most of the more than 200 suspected terrorists apprehended in less than a month for attacks in Xinjiang and elsewhere in the country are in their 20s. This sends the message that the importance of education in this region cannot be overestimated.

This explains why the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee mapped out a specific policy to address these issues at a meeting on Monday.