Editing Hui people (section)

=== Increasing religiosity in China ===
[[File:General Ma Fuxiang.jpg|upright|thumb|[[Ma Fuxiang]]]]According to [[Dru C. Gladney|Dru Gladney]], professor at [[Pomona College]] in California and a leading scholar on the Hui people, Hui Muslims are enjoying a resurgence in religiosity in China, and that the number of practising Muslims among the Hui people, are rising as well as a "dramatic increase" in the number of Hui women wearing the [[Hijab]], and the numbers of Hui going on the [[Hajj|Haj]]. There are also estimated twice as many mosques in China today than there were in 1950, in which majority were built by Hui Muslims.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Welle (www.dw.com)|first=Deutsche|title=The Hui – China's preferred Muslims? {{!}} DW {{!}} 09.12.2016|url=https://www.dw.com/en/the-hui-chinas-preferred-muslims/a-36699666|access-date=2021-12-06|website=DW.COM|language=en-GB}}</ref>

One of the reasons for the trend in China, is that Hui Muslims play a vital role as being middlemen in trade between the Middle East and China, and the China-Middle East trade has become increasingly important to the country. Consequently, the government has started constructing a $3.7 billion Islamic theme park called "World Muslim City", in [[Yinchuan]], one of Hui Muslims hubs. Additionally unlike Uyghurs, who faces far more restrictions in religious freedoms, Hui Muslims generally do not seek independence from China and have a cultural affinity to the Han, and are far more [[Sinicization|assimilated into mainstream Chinese life]]. "It's not an issue of freedom of religion," says Gladney, "Clearly, there are many avenues of religious expression that are unfettered in China, but when you cross these very often nebulous and shifting boundaries of what the state regards as political, then you're in dangerous territory. Obviously this is what we see in Xinjiang and in Tibet".<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=If China Is Anti-Islam, Why Are These Chinese Muslims Enjoying a Faith Revival?|url=https://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-xinjiang-uighur-islam/|access-date=2021-12-06|magazine=Time|language=en}}</ref>