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A Han woman walks past Uighur women in Shanghai, in this April 11, 2014 file photo. The custom of women wearing face veils is not a tradition of minority people in China's western area of Xinjiang or in any Muslim country, but is a symbol of extremism and backwardness instead, a senior regional official said on September 24, 2015. Energy-rich Xinjiang, visited this week by British finance minister George Osborne on a rare trip by a Western official, is strategically located on the borders of Central Asia. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)
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