Features of the Ethnogenesis of the Uyghur National Minority on the Territory of the Modern PRC

The Uyghur issue has been an extremely topical topic for the past few years, which has been paid attention, first of all, by Western democratic countries. This article examines the prehistory of the emergence of the modern Uyghur issue in the PRC, an attempt is made to investigate and summarize previous studies on this topic, as well as to identify the factors that slow down the successful solution of this issue by the central government of the PRC.