Police in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region will give 2.2 million yuan ($320,000) to six local people as their reward for providing information on potential terrorist activities.
Xinjiang Daily, the local official newspaper, said six people from Baicheng county, Luopu county and other places in Xinjiang will share 2.2 million yuan, with each guaranteed of getting at least 200,000 yuan, for help in detecting and preventing violent and terrorist activities.
In 2014, a regulation in Urumqi, the regional capital, encouraged the public to provide information on potential hazards to society, including separatist and illegal religious activities, but the reward was up to 1 million yuan.
In April, Xinjiang pledged to reward whistle-blowers from 200,000 to 5 million yuan for information on potential attacks, abductions, assassinations, poisoning and blasts.
Xinjiang has been the scene of riots and terrorist attacks. On September 18, 2015, armed men attacked a coal mine in Baicheng county, Aksu Prefecture, killing 11 people.
Higher rewards shows the police attaches greater importance to intelligence collection among the public, Turgunjan Tursun, a research fellow at the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times previously.
