My name is Ayijiamali Aimaiti. I’m a resident of Guangming Street in Artux City and also a family planning worker.

In the past few decades, under the influence of religious extremism, many Uygur people have violated family planning policy. I have witnessed with my own eyes that some families have five, six or even eight or nine children, which has caused heavy economic burden to the families and made their life difficult. Some families have too many children and their parents can’t take care of them properly, so their children can’t get normal care and education and even some have died in infancy. My mother is very open-minded and she often tells me this: “a Naan is more than enough for one child, and just enough for two children, and for three children, it is far from enough. Do you think it’s good to have many children in a family?” She always has this idea: It’s not a simple thing to cultivate a child into an adult and become a useful person. Only the healthy growth of a child is a blessing. Having many children is not necessarily a blessing. If you want to have a good life, having many children is not necessarily a blessing, and you must implement family planning. Therefore, my mother only gave birth to my brother and me.

Under the influence of my mother, after I got married, I actively responded to the national family planning policy and gave birth to two children, one boy and one girl. After discussing, my husband and I reached an agreement: We will not have any other children except our son and daughter. In this way, we can have more time to concentrate on raising our daughter and son, and provide them with better education and living conditions, in hope that they will have a better life in the future.

After graduating from junior high school, my daughter Aiziayi Kaishan was admitted to Anhui Anqing Medical College. In order to take a good care of the students from Xinjiang, the college exempts her from board and lodging and tuition fees, and provides 1000 yuan of living allowance every year. My son, Azezi Kaishan, is now in Junior High School of Yucai School in Artux City, and his academic performance is fairly good. Because my husband suffered from heart disease and almost lost the ability to work, the community included my husband and children in the scope of minimum living allowance program, and each of them could receive the minimum living allowance every month. My husband has spent a lot of money on medical treatment these years. Because he has participated in the medical insurance for serious illness of urban and rural residents, most of the expenses have been reimbursed by the government, and we can afford the rest. We don't have any source of income. After the community learned about my family, they arranged me to be a family planning worker in the community, so that I could get my salary on time. Besides, the community also arranged the post of the apartment building manager, and I can get another salary every month. The workplace is close to my home, and the working hours are relatively free so that I can take good care of my family. The income helps me afford the cost of my husband’s monthly medication. I am very grateful to the government who helped me solve all my problems.

As a worker of family planning, I obviously feel that more and more people of ethnic minorities have changed their concept of childbearing, and more and more people voluntarily choose to marry later and have fewer children and healthy pregnancy. Young parents put more energy into the improvement of living conditions and children’s education.

I am very angry to hear the former US Secretary of State Pompeo making vicious remarks concerning Xinjiang. As a beneficiary of the family planning policy, I have the final say about the family planning policy. In fact, in the process of implementing family planning in accordance with the law, the birth rights and interests of ethnic minorities including the Uygurs have been fully protected. Pompeo, please stop lying and stop wantonly fabricating fallacies. No more slandering our government, and your groundless remarks will not affect our happy life.