宁夏

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(1) 何宗安, 宁夏用宗教渊源谋取经济好处. BBC Chinese, June 29, 2012.
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 120629/1351987.html

Note: 银川市
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/银川市
(宁夏回族自治区的首府)

(2) Stephanie Ho, Islam Flourishes in China's Ningxia Region. VOA, June 26, 2012.
http://www.voanews.com/content/i ... region/1252816.html

Note:
(a) The Chinese report is, in part, translated from the English one.
(b) The report mentions China's "most numerous Muslims, the Hui."

Hui people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people
(total population 10 million [ref 1, which is China.org.cn/China.com.cn 中国网)

Quote: “In the People's Republic of China, the Hui people are one of 56 officially recognized ethnic groups. Under this definition, the Hui people are defined to include all historically Muslim communities in People's Republic of China that are not included in China's other ethnic groups.  Since China's Muslims speaking various Turkic, Mongolic, or Iranian languages are all included into those other groups (e.g., Uyghurs, Dongxiang 东乡族, or Tajiks) the ‘officially recognized’ Hui ethnic group consists predominantly of Chinese speakers.  In fact, the "Hui nationality" is unique among China's officially recognized ethnic minorities in that it does not have any particular non-Chinese language associated with it.
(c) As of 2000, there were 8.4 million of Uyghurs in China.