Travel 1000 Km Just to email if you are in Xinjiang, China

More than 20 million people in Xinjiang have been affected by the curbs and most of them had nothing to do with the riots.

In Urumqi's wholesale market, traders sit in the snow surrounded by sacks full of dates, nuts and dried fruits. People huddle around charcoal stoves trying to keep warm.

Sifting through a sack of almonds are Ma Hui and her husband Zhu Meng.
The couple make their living trading the fruit and nuts Xinjiang is famed for, selling them to people in other parts of China.

But all their sales are online. So it has been almost impossible for them to keep their business going.
At the computer in his office, Zhu Meng shows me how the authorities have recently been opening up access to a few internet sites.

First he could only see the state-run news agency Xinhua and a couple of other websites. Last weekend curbs on about 25 more sites were lifted, but that is all.
Then he showed me there was no e-mail, no instant messaging, no way of responding to his customers online.
"It's okay for the government to control things," Zhu Meng says, "but when they control everything, even the search engines, it has a huge effect.

"For us who make a living on the internet, it's a fatal blow."
The only way to get around the internet block has been to travel 1,000 km (620 miles) across Xinjiang's deserts to reach a working internet connection outside the province.

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Source: BBC News
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