In February 2022, the Atlantic Council reported that Century Sunshine Group Holdings, Ltd. (CSGH) was connected to the oppression of Uyghur peoples in Xinjiang. Since at least 2017, CSGH has participated in state-sponsored poverty alleviation and labor transfer schemes, which are well known euphemisms for forced labor. Though the company has claimed they provide their workers with appropriate protective equipment, working conditions were revealed to be unsafe for exposure to excessive temperatures and coal dust.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Financing__Genocide.pdf
On February 18, 2022, reports emerged that Camel Group accepted workers from a state-sponsored program that transferred 165 workers from southern Xinjiang to workplaces more than 800 miles away, in the eastern part of Xinjiang. Camel Group is one of many companies that benefit from the labor transfer scheme facilitated by the Toksun County government. The workers were submitted to a 10-day, "closed pre-job training state-run session that they were not allowed to leave, where they received ideological training and were required to sing patriotic songs before being sent to companies including Camel Group via a "handover ceremony." Camel Group exports its lead-acid storage batteries to western automobile manufacturers.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Financing__Genocide.pdf
On March 1, 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) included Geely Auto in a list of companies that may benefit from the use of Uyghur workers through abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019. Geely's supplier O-Film Technology Co. Ltd, which manufactures compact camera modules and touchscreen components for Geely automobiles, reportedly sponsored the forced transfer of over 1,200 Uyghur workers to its manufacturing facilities in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale
Xinjiang Yilite Industry Co. Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the EU in 2021. As a subsidiary, Xinjiang Yilite likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
Xinjiang Qingsong Building Materials and Chemicals (Group) Co., Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the E.U. in 2021. As a subsidiary, Xinjiang Qingsong likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
In their 2020 Xinjiang Goldwind Funds Allocation Report, Haitong Securities Co., Ltd. was connected to Xinjiang Goldwind Technology Co., Ltd., known user of Uyghur "forced labor." As Xinjiang Goldwind's sponsor, Haitong Securities helped fund wind projects in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Zone.
http://static.cninfo.com.cn/finalpage/2021-03-27/1209465938.PDF
Xinjiang Tianye's 2018 annual report indicates participation in a wide array of so-called poverty alleviation programs, including labor transfers and vocational training programs. The company reports that it has "absorbed" 100 local workers, which typically is a euphemism for labor transfers. Furthermore, a state media report in 2020 provides evidence that the company has been the recipient of "poverty alleviation" surplus labour transfers as a "paired poverty alleviation work unit".
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ad360ffab-40cc-4d83-8b8b-a8bd503286a3#pageNum=24
Xinjiang Tianye is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the EU in 2021. Presumably, Tianye sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
Wuchan Zhongda Group Co., Ltd. is reportedly buying and selling cotton from known Uyghur human rights abuser Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). Wuchan Zhongda Group is publicly listed, which exposes foreign investors to potentially financing XPCC cotton trade.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
On March 7, 2022, the Campaign for Accountability's Tech Transparency Project released a report documenting Amazon's alleged use of suppliers linked to forced labor in China. GoerTek Inc. was accused of having ties with forced labor and violating Amazon's policy against "suppliers that traffic workers or in any other way exploit workers by means of threat, force, coercion, abduction, or fraud."
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/amazon-suppliers-tied-forced-labor-xinjiang
Avary Holdings employs about 111 Uyghurs that were transferred from Xinjiang to its Jiangsu factory and has participated in programs seeking additional Uyghur labor transfers.
http://archive.ph/L5G9i
On March 1, 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) included BOE Technology Group in a list of companies that may benefit from the use of Uyghur workers through allegedly abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019. BOE's supplier Hefei Highbroad Advanced Material Co. Ltd (Highbroad), which manufactures components for flat panel displays for BOE, reportedly sponsored the alleged forced transfer of 1,000 Uyghurs per year for three years in 2017 to its manufacturing facilities, with at least 500 reportedly working at their electronics factory in Hefei. Additionally, in 2018, 544 Uyghurs were allegedly forced to transfer to work at another factory in Hefei of Highbroad's subsidiary, Fuying Photoelectric Co. Ltd.
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale
On July 22, 2020, Tanyuan Technology was added to the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List in connection with forced labor practices involving Uyghur and other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang. The company is a primary supplier of graphite heat dissipation materials used in touch screens for consumer electronics and vehicles, using at least 250 Uyghur workers transferred from Xinjiang to Jiangsu.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/07/22/2020-15827/addition-of-certain-entities-to-the-entity-list-revision-of-existing-entries-on-the-entity-list
On June 17, 2022, Tanyuan Technology was added to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List after being identified as working with the government of Xinjiang to recruit, transport, and facilitate the forced labor of multiple ethnic groups out of Xinjiang, including the Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz peoples. The UFLPA considers 11 indicators of forced labor for which companies are added to its list, including: the abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, isolation, physical and sexual violence, intimidation and threats, retention of identity, documents, withholding of wages, debt bondage, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime. Tanyuan Technology is a electronics company specializing in touch screens for handheld devices and cars.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/22_0617_fletf_uflpa-strategy.pdf
On March 7, 2022, the Campaign for Accountability's Tech Transparency Project released a report documenting Amazon's use of suppliers linked to forced labor in China. Lens Technology was accused of having directly used forced labor and violating Amazon's policy against "suppliers that traffic workers or in any other way exploit workers by means of threat, force, coercion, abduction, or fraud."
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/amazon-suppliers-tied-forced-labor-xinjiang
On April 8, 2021, it was reported that Lens Technology, which generates about 60% of its revenues from Apple, was accused of using forced labor of Uyghur workers from Xinjiang according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). Apple has denied such an allegation.
https://www.asiafinancial.com/supplier-shares-hit-by-apple-cut-off-woes-over-xinjiang-labour
On March 7, 2022, the Campaign for Accountability's Tech Transparency Project released a report documenting Amazon's alleged use of suppliers linked to forced labor in China. Luxshare Precision Industry Co. was accused of having directly used forced labor and violating Amazon's policy against "suppliers that traffic workers or in any other way exploit workers by means of threat, force, coercion, abduction, or fraud."
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/amazon-suppliers-tied-forced-labor-xinjiang
On July 22, 2020, US Department of Commerce added 11 Chinese companies to an Entity List, citing human rights abuses in Xinjiang, and Nanchang Ofilm Tech was included. Soon after the release of the Entity List, rumors circulated that Apple would drop Ofilm as a supplier. In January 2021, Ofilm released a statement confirming market speculation that the company would be removed from Apple's supply chain due to connections to forced labor in Xinjiang.
https://www.asiafinancial.com/supplier-shares-hit-by-apple-cut-off-woes-over-xinjiang-labour
On March 10, 2020, Voice of America reported that OFILM was employing forced Uyghur laborers from Xinjiang in its Nanchang factories. VOA claimed that ethnic Uyghurs who work at the factory are contained within a walled complex surrounded by security cameras and guards, and when they leave they are accompanied by an observer. VOA also reported that the yighurs are not permitted to leave or pray. In the wake of this report, McDonald‚ says it has asked PAR Technology, its sales system provider that purchases from OFILM Group, to discontinue purchases from OFILM while it launches an immediate investigation.
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/parts-for-major-tech-companies-made-by-uyghur-forced-labor/5318279.html
Xinjiang Beixin Road and Bridge Group Co. Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the EU in 2021. As a subsidiary, Xinjiang Beixin likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
In February 2022, the Atlantic Council reported that Chenguang Biotech Group Co., Ltd. was connected to the oppression of Uyghur peoples in Xinjiang. Chenguang has participated in state-sponsored poverty alleviation and labor transfer schemes, which are well known euphemisms for forced labor. Workers in these programs are coerced into leaving their land, interred on company property, and paid ~$250/year (about $21/month). These workers no longer have rights to their small subsistence farms to supplement their incomes, and are left few options other than to join state-sponsored labor transfer programs, even when they expressly prefer to remain in farming or in their own community.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Financing__Genocide.pdf
XPCC, the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups, holds a controlling stake in Xinjiang Sayram Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd., which is also based in Xinjiang. Presumably, Xinjiang Sayram sources its labor from XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
Xinjiang Talimu Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the EU in 2021. As a subsidiary, Xinjiang Talimu likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
Xinjiang Tianye Water Saving Irrigation Co., Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the EU in 2021. Presumably, Xinjiang Tianye Water Saving Irrigation sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
Xinjiang Western Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the EU in 2021. As a subsidiary, Xinjiang Western Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
On July 20, 2020, Changhong Meiling Co., Ltd. (formerly Hefei Meiling Co., Ltd.) was added to the US Department of Commerce's BIS Entity List for the practice of forced labor involving Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/07/22/2020-15827/addition-of-certain-entities-to-the-entity-list-revision-of-existing-entries-on-the-entity-list
On June 17, 2022, Changhong Meiling Co., Ltd. (formerly Hefei Meiling Co., Ltd.) was added to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List after being identified as working with the government of Xinjiang to recruit, transport, and facilitate the forced labor of multiple ethnic groups out of Xinjiang, including the Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz peoples. The UFLPA considers 11 indicators of forced labor for which companies are added to its list, including: the abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, isolation, physical and sexual violence, intimidation and threats, retention of identity, documents, withholding of wages, debt bondage, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime. Changhong Meiling is an electronics company.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/22_0617_fletf_uflpa-strategy.pdf
Xiamen International Trade Group Co. Ltd. is reportedly buying and selling cotton from known Uyghur human rights abuser Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). Xiamen ITG is publicly listed, which exposes foreign investors to potentially financing XPCC cotton trade.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
On March 24, 2021, Anta Sports quit the Switzerland-based Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) after the organization suspended licensing of cotton products from Xinjiang over human rights concerns, after Chinese citizens boycotted Nike and Adidas for expressing concerns about forced labor in Xinjiang. Anta Sports also publicly voiced its support of cotton sourcing in the region.
https://fortune.com/2021/04/03/anta-shoes-sneakers-basketball-nike-adidas-xinjiang-cotton-boycott-china/
On March 1, 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) included Li-Ning in a list of companies that may benefit from the use of Uyghur workers through abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019. Li-Ning has denied the allegations.
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/uyghurs-sale
XPCC, the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups, holds a controlling stake in Chalkis Health Industry Co., Ltd., which is based in Xinjiang. Presumably, Chalkis sources its labor from XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
Formerly known as Haoxiangni Jujube, Haoxiangni Health Food produces dried jujube (Chinese date) and other food products using Uyghur labor at factories in both Henan province and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
http://archive.ph/RZhne#selection-989.0-989.76
Tecon Biology Co. Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the EU in 2021. As a subsidiary, Tecon likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
Xinjiang Guannong Fruit and Antler Co., Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2020 and the E.U. in 2021. As a subsidiary, Xinjiang Guannong likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
On October 29, 2021, Xinjiang Guannong Tomato Products (a subsidiary) was revealed to use forced labor to plant tomato seeds, pick tomatoes, and operate its factories, including by transferring Uyghurs throughout Xinjiang Province in coordination with local governments.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-tomato-products-investigation-1.6227359?cmp=newsletter_Marketplace%20Watchdog_5064_325824
Xinjiang Tianrun Dairy Co., Ltd. is a publicly traded subsidiary of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups. XPCC was sanctioned by the US in 2020 and the E.U. in 2021. As a subsidiary, Xinjiang Tianrun likely sources its labor from the sites and transferrals organized by XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf
In February 2022, the Atlantic Council reported that Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd. was connected to the oppression of Uyghur peoples in Xinjiang. Jointown's Xinjiang location has participated in state-sponsored poverty alleviation and labor transfer schemes, which are well known euphemisms for forced labor. In 2018, Jointown built its 120,000-square-meter industrial park in Urumqi and by 2020, they had over 200 workers transferred from southern XUAR "and other remote and underdeveloped prefectures."
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Financing__Genocide.pdf
On July 22, 2020, KTK Group (also known as Jinchuang Group) was added to the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security Entity list through its significant connections to forced labor in Xinjiang.
https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2020/07/commerce-department-adds-eleven-chinese-entities-implicated-human
On June 17, 2022, KTK Group was added to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List after being identified as working with the government of Xinjiang to recruit, transport, and facilitate the forced labor of multiple ethnic groups out of Xinjiang, including the Uyghur, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz peoples. The UFLPA considers 11 indicators of forced labor for which companies are added to its list, including: the abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, isolation, physical and sexual violence, intimidation and threats, retention of identity, documents, withholding of wages, debt bondage, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime.KTK Group is a rail transportation equipment manufacturer.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/22_0617_fletf_uflpa-strategy.pdf
According to a 2017 agreement, Good-Ark agreed to employ 500 Uyghur workers following their completion of an education and training program that has been characterized as a detention and indoctrination program. As of 2019, the company's Shandong factory employed a number of Uyghurs that had been transferred from Xinjiang.
http://archive.ph/3e0G3 ; http://archive.ph/jXzgL
On August 19, 2021, approximately 2.1 GW of solar projects totaling near $2.2 billion were detained by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in accordance with a Withhold Release Order (WRO) issued on June 24th, 2021, with the aim of preventing the flow of goods produced using forced labor in Xinjiang.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/11/04/border-agents-detained-40-31-mw-of-longi-solar-products-company-says/ ; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/24/fact-sheet-new-u-s-government-actions-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/
Xinjiang GCL employed coerced surplus laborers as part of a scheme that brought "more than 1,800 poor laborers [who] are all beneficiaries of the organized transfer of labor from poor families from ten deeply impoverished counties in three prefectures of southern Xinjiang." According to state media, the workers "were placed in Xinjiang state-owned enterprises affiliated with the region or central government enterprises based in the region." In late 2018, within the first few months of operation, GCL-Poly's facility in Changji had employed more than 60 people through surplus labour transfers.
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ad360ffab-40cc-4d83-8b8b-a8bd503286a3#pageNum=30
According to the US-based consultancy group Horizon Advisory, GCL-Poly uses forced labor of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. The company accepts workers transferred by the Chinese government from Xinjiang and force them to undergo "military-style" training.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/economy/china-solar-companies-forced-labor-xinjiang.html
On May 24, 2021, Hoshine Silicon's Xinjiang subsidiary was accused of actively recruiting and employing "transferred surplus labor" from rural villages around Turpan to its Shanshan facility. Xinjiang Hoshine relies on government programs that place rural laborers deemed to be "surplus" in factory work.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/22_0617_fletf_uflpa-strategy.pdf
On June 17, 2022, Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. was added to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List after being identified as an entity in Xinjiang that mines, produces, or manufactures wholly or in part any goods, wares, articles and merchandise with forced labor. Hoshine Silicon was also identified as an entity that sources material from Xinjiang or from persons working with the government of Xinjiang or the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for purposes of the "poverty alleviation" program or the "pairing-assistance" program or any other government-labor scheme that uses forced labor.The UFLPA considers 11 indicators of forced labor for which companies are added to its list, including: the abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, isolation, physical and sexual violence, intimidation and threats, retention of identity, documents, withholding of wages, debt bondage, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime. Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. is a silica-based products company.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/helena-kennedy-centre-international-justice/research-and-projects/all-projects/in-broad-daylight
JA Solar runs power generation plants in the XUAR, including through Beitun Haitianda Photovoltaic Power Generation Co. Ltd., and through Beitun Haitianda Photovoltaic Power Generation 184th Mission Branch. The plants are located in the 184th Regiment of the 10th Division of the XPCC. They have a lease with XPCC allegedly through December 2040. JA Solar created subsidiary Tiemenguan Ja Solar Co. Ltd. in April 2020, which operates a power station in XPCC's Tiemenguan City.
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On September 16, 2021, reports emerged that approximately 100 MW of product sold by Jinko Solar were stopped by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in accordance with a CBP Withhold Release Order issued on June 24th, 2021, to disrupt the flow of goods produced using forced labor in Xinjiang.
https://www.reuters.com/article/jinkosolar-shipments/chinas-jinkosolar-says-some-panels-being-held-at-u-s-border-idUSKBN2GC2AO ; https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/11/04/border-agents-detained-40-31-mw-of-longi-solar-products-company-says/ ; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/24/fact-sheet-new-u-s-government-actions-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/
In the spring of 2020, Xinjiang Jinko Solar accepted 78 "registered unemployed personnel" from the Kunas County government on one-year or longer contracts. In July 2020, Xinjiang Jinko Solar was awarded further subsidies for "accepting forty poor laborers from southern Xinjiang." 2020 may not have been the earliest Xinjiang Jinko Solar received labor transfers; the relatively small Xinyuan Industrial Park in which Jinko Solar is located brought in rural surplus laborers starting at least as early as 2018.
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ad360ffab-40cc-4d83-8b8b-a8bd503286a3#pageNum=38
According to the US-based consultancy group Horizon Advisory, Jinko Solar uses forced labor of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. The company accepts workers transferred by the Chinese government from Xinjiang and force them to undergo "military-style" training.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/economy/china-solar-companies-forced-labor-xinjiang.html
On November 4, 2021, LONGi Green Energy Technology filed a report with the Shanghai Stock Exchange that said US Customs and Border Protection had detained a total of 40.31 MW modules exported by LONGi to the US between October 28, 2021 - November 3, 2021. The detention was undertaken in accordance with a Withhold Release Order (WRO) issued by CBP on June 24th, 2021, to disrupt the flow of goods produced using forced labor in Xinjiang. 100MW of LONGi modules were released on February 21, 2022.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/11/04/border-agents-detained-40-31-mw-of-longi-solar-products-company-says/ ; https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/24/fact-sheet-new-u-s-government-actions-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/ ; https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/21/roth-100mw-of-modules-detained-under-hoshine-wro-released/
On May 24, 2021, it was reported that LONGi was a customer of many of the polysilicon companies engaged in labor transfers in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The firm procures polysilicon from GCL-Poly, purchases polysilicon from Xinte through 2025, and is one of Daqo New Energy's largest customers. LONGi also has three solar plants in the 13th Division of the Kumul Xuanli Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC).
https://www.shu.ac.uk/helena-kennedy-centre-international-justice/research-and-projects/all-projects/in-broad-daylight
In the report "IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: Uyghur Forced Labour and Global Solar Supply Chains" by the Helena Kennedy Center for International Justice, it was detailed that by May of 2020, TBEA had invested a total CNY 30 million in various poverty alleviation programs in the Uyghur Region and significantly engaged in surplus labor transfers. TBEA has adopted two villages in Hotan where it engages in extensive poverty alleviation and labor transfer social engineering experiments. TBEA announced in 2018 that it had developed employment positions for which the company transferred 200-300 poor people into work. TBEA was one of four companies that were recipients of 139 eighteen- to sixty-year-old transfer laborers from Jimsar County for work in the company power plant in the Zhundong Economic and Technological Development Zone. The laborers were assigned Han minders/trainers that were dubbed in-laws to ensure their enculturation in the new site. The company factories engage in political education that is explicitly meant to pacify Uyghur dissent. Zhang Xin noted in 2018 that TBEA launched a series of activities to educate and guide all employees to clearly oppose national separatism [and] insisted on maintaining stability as the overriding priority.
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ad360ffab-40cc-4d83-8b8b-a8bd503286a3#pageNum=32
According to a Bloomberg report published on April 13, 2021, TBEA accepted as many as 300 poor workers from Hotan, an area with a large Uyghur population that has been targeted for government assimilation policies, in 2018. A TBEA corporate official also reported that in 2019 that he had aided government agents in visiting Hotan villagers' homes to "spread Party policies" and "prescribe the right medicine" to alleviate poverty. TBEA is the parent company of Xinte Energy Co. which has a polysilicon factory, located in Xinjiang.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-xinjiang-solar/
In 2014, Trina Solar began manufacturing photovoltaic modules in its plant in Toksun County, Turpan, Xinjiang using forced labor. Trina subsidiary Xinjiang Tianyuan Smart Energy Company operates a project in the Camel Circle Industrial Park of the 13th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC).
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Solar products shipped to the US by Trina Solar were stopped by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in accordance with a CBP Withhold Release Order (WRO) issued on June 24th, 2021 to disrupt the flow of goods produced using forced labor in Xinjiang. On August 20, 2021, it was reported that 6 next-generation modules sold by Trina Solar were detained by CBP, presumably at the Port of Los Angeles. On February 21, 2022, it was reported that the majority of Trina's detained products have been released.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/24/fact-sheet-new-u-s-government-actions-on-forced-labor-in-xinjiang/ ; https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/08/20/us-customs-enforcement-is-jeopardizing-2-1-gw-of-solar-projects/ ; https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/02/21/roth-100mw-of-modules-detained-under-hoshine-wro-released/
Xinjiang Daqo indicated that it had received subsidies for labor placements from the Chinese government, which may indicate that the company employs state-sponsored labour transfers in its own facilities, as "placement" is a term the central government and Xinjiang local and regional governments sometimes use for labor transfers.
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According to the US-based consultancy group Horizon Advisory, Daqo New Energy uses forced labor of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. The company accepts workers transferred by the Chinese government from Xinjiang and force them to undergo "military-style" training.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/economy/china-solar-companies-forced-labor-xinjiang.html
On June 17, 2022, Xinjiang Daqo New Energy was added to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List after being identified as an entity in Xinjiang that mines, produces, or manufactures wholly or in part any goods, wares, articles and merchandise with forced labor. The UFLPA considers 11 indicators of forced labor for which companies are added to its list, including: the abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, isolation, physical and sexual violence, intimidation and threats, retention of identity, documents, withholding of wages, debt bondage, abusive working and living conditions, and excessive overtime. Xinjiang Daqo New Energy is a polysilicon company, including solar-grade polysilicon.
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-06/22_0617_fletf_uflpa-strategy.pdf
On June 23, 2021, Xinjiang Daqo New Energy was listed on the US Department of Commerce's BIS Entity List for human rights violations of the Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China. Daqo New Energy manufactures monocrystalline silicon and polysilicon, primarily for use in solar photovoltaic systems, and operates a manufacturing facility in Shihezi, Xinjiang, China.
https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-china-commerce/us-adds-five-chinese-companies-to-entity-list-over-alleged-human-rights-abuses-idUSL2N2O52QB
It is heavily implied by the media campaigns and CEO speeches of Xinte Energy, TBEA's polysilicon-manufacturing subsidiary, that the firm is involved in labor transfers and part of pairing programs that match TBEA employees with indigenous laborers for ideological indoctrination.
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According to the US-based consultancy group Horizon Advisory, Xinte Energy uses forced labor of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. The company accepts workers transferred by the Chinese government from Xinjiang and force them to undergo "military-style" training.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/business/economy/china-solar-companies-forced-labor-xinjiang.html
Xiamen C&D Co. Ltd. is reportedly buying and selling cotton from known Uyghur human rights abuser Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC). Xiamen C&D is publicly listed, which exposes foreign investors to potentially financing XPCC cotton trade.
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In 2016, local government reports indicated that a Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Company factory in Toksun County, Xinjiang, was in advanced talks in to receive "labor export" from Hotan Prefecture. Although it is unclear if the agreement went through, the company's founder and chairman, Wu Gang, has participated in the promotion of ideological education of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Goldwind also works with the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), which was sanctioned by the US Treasury over its human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/apples-uyghur-dilemma-grows
Huafu Fashion Co., Ltd. was identified as using forced labor in its Xinjiang cotton mills and factories to produce cotton, yarn and fabric. Several multinational clothing brands including H&M and Abercrombie & Fitch removed Huafu from their supply chains.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-01/muji-uniqlo-flaunt-xinjiang-cotton-despite-uyghur-human-rights/11645612
Huafu reportedly runs a "college" in the middle of an industrial park that was built explicitly as part of the government's poverty alleviation program. The college programing was paid for with government subsidies and is intended to eradicate extremist thought, which is a key element of the "re-education" of Uyghurs.
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/Lehr_ConnectingDotsXinjiang_interior_v3_FULL_WEB.pdf
Huafu Fashion allegedly owns over 30 entities registered in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), with nearly 40 ginning and spinning mills operating in the region. It has established joint ventures in the region to produce cotton, and is located in XUAR's Aksu Industrial City, an industrial park that hosts several textile manufacturers.
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Jiangsu Lianfa Group's wholly-owned subsidiaries operate in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), producing yarn and selling cotton directly to Jiangsu Lianfa. The subsidiaries allegedly use forced labor in their operations.
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Ruyi Group is the largest textile manufacturer in China and has ownership stakes in major international brands like Bally and SMCP (which owns Sandro, Maje, and Claude Pierlot). It reportedly employs 2,000 Uyghur workers across three counties in Xinjiang and has production links to several villages and households.
http://archive.ph/q9VgW#selection-101.1-101.51
Texhong Textile Group operates a mill in XUAR that allegedly uses forced labor, and along with its subsidiaries, ships cotton textile products from XUAR to multinational companies, such as Ann Taylor and J. Crew.
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The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) - the governing body of Xinjiang Province that oversees the mass detention and forced labor campaigns perpetrated against the region's Uyghur Muslim and minority groups - holds a controlling stake in Xinjiang Tianfu Energy. Presumably, Xinjiang Tianfu Energy sources its labor from the XPCC.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d5358a/t/610db5f8f2fc1c6a88dd7ee0/1628288525125/Xinjiang+Report.pdf