China has passed a five-year plan to make Islam more Chinese, even as it faces withering criticism over its large-scale detention of Muslims in Xinjiang.
The plan aims "to guide Islam to be compatible with socialism and implement measures to sinicise the religion" so as to foster patriotism.
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