Xinjiang Daily reported that 115 terrorist cells had been eliminated in the past six months since a yearlong crackdown on terrorism was launched on May 23 in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It added that most terrorist attacks were stopped before they could be undertaken.During the crackdown, 171 religious training sites were shut down, and 238 people who arranged training facilities were detained. More than 18,000 documents, 2,600 discs and 777 storage devices related to religious extremism were seized.

It detailed that so far the region has dealt with 44 cases involving explosives instruction via the Internet, 294 cases related to the distribution of violent audiovisual materials and four cases relating to the spread of rumors. Governmental legal departments, together with the region's cultural, industrial and commercial departments, strengthened the monitoring of illegal publicity in an effort to cut the spread of religious extremism at its source, according to the report.

More than 18,000 documents, 2,600 discs and 777 storage devices related to religious extremism were seized.