China’s campaign to force its millions of nomadic herders into static lives of grim social engineering is proceeding rapidly. The massive uprooting is leaving members of this ancient culture groping for a place in the government’s badly planned new world.
Beijing says that by the end of the year the remaining 1.2 million nomads will have been moved from the western border grassland into towns offering electricity, health care and schools. The government has issued Orwellian propaganda claiming “enormous strides toward modernity” by the nomads and comparing its relocation policy to “the warm spring breeze that brightens the grassland in green and reaches into the herders’ hearts…[Source]