Hotan Xibao Auto Supplies Co., Ltd.

Interiors, mats

Hotan Xibao Auto Supplies Co. was established within the “Green Poverty Alleviation Industrial Park” which is located within the Beijing Industrial Park in Lop County. Hotan Xibao and other automotive parts manufacturing facilities located at this address are of significant concern for forced labor. The Beijing Industrial Park in Lop in which the factory is located is the site of several detention centers, including the Lop County #4 Education and Training Center, which was made famous when state media published a photo of the men who were interned there. The dissemination of that photo on social media led to international awareness of the severity of the crisis in the Uyghur Region.

Hotan Xibao is located in plant number 2 at 38 Jingluo Road within the park,which is located at the same address as the Lop County Hair Product Industrial Park that was the subject of a Withhold Release Order issued by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, due to evidence that the park was engaged in forced labor that was revealed in Chinese state media. This suggests that in addition to hair products, the industrial park is also manufacturing automotive parts.

It appears that after establishing Hotan Xibao, Guanghui Group arranged for Shaanxi Lechetu Automobile Accessories Co. to register the company. The Lop factory would make car storage baskets, cushions, and other products for Shaanxi Lechetu on order. A Hotan Daily article about Hotan Xibao indicated that the industrial park in which the company was located had “solved the employment of more than 125 local surplus laborers.” Based on the photos in state media, it is possible that some of the workers employed by the factory are internment camp victims from the Lop County Number 4 Education and Training Center internment camp. It is unusual for men to work in sewing in the Uyghur Region, and the images of the men working in the factory suggest that they may be older than the young people typically transferred through the state-sponsored surplus labor transfers.