Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin replied question concerning the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act from Bloomberg during the Regular Press Conference on June 21, 2022.

Bloomberg: Tomorrow, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act takes effect in the US. Under the law, the US government assumes that anything made even partially in Xinjiang is produced with forced labor and can’t be imported unless companies can prove otherwise. Do you have any comment on it?

Wang Wenbin: The allegation of “forced labor” in Xinjiang is a huge lie made up by anti-China forces to denigrate China. It is the complete opposite of the reality Xinjiang, where cotton and other industries rely on large-scale mechanized production and the rights of workers of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are duly protected. 

The US’s Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is built on a lie and designed to impose sanctions on relevant entities and individuals in Xinjiang. This move is the furtherance of that lie and an escalation of US suppression on China under the pretext of human rights. Moreover, the act is solid evidence of US’s arbitrariness in undermining international economic and trade rules and global industrial and supply chains. 

The act is a clear indication that the US is seeking to engender forced unemployment in Xinjiang through legal form of actions, and to make the world decouple with China. It fully exposes the US’s hegemonic nature -- a country that violates human rights and breaks rules in the name of preserving them. China strongly condemns and firmly opposes these acts and will act forcefully to uphold the lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies and nationals. 

The US move is against the trend of the times and bound to fail. 

(Source：Official Website of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China)