"It is precisely with jobs for all ethnic groups at the Urumqi site that the social environment will be significantly improved," said the speaker. Margarete Bause, Green spokesperson on human rights policy, had described Diess's statements in a BBC interview, according to which he was not aware of the camps as "shocking".

In an interview with the BBC, Diess said Volkswagen was proud to create jobs in the region. The reporter then noted that the group could not be proud of how the Chinese government dealt with minorities there." I can't judge that, sorry,"Diess replied. He doesn't know what the reporter is referring to. You know nothing about China's retraining camps for one million people in the west of the country, which are portrayed as centres of education in the context of anti -terrorism measures? You don't know anything about that?" the reporter hacked into it. No, I don't know anything about that,"Diess said.

Human rights organisations have been denouncing for months the detention and torture of members of religious minorities in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Bause said. "If Mr Diess is now proud in China of creating jobs in this region and pretending not to know anything about retraining camps, this is sheer cynicism." Companies were responsible for their actions. "The head of the VW board accepts this responsibility and makes himself an accomplice to Chinese propaganda." The camps are estimated to contain up to one million Muslims.
According to VW spokesman, around 700 people work at the plant in the North West Chinese province. About a quarter of them are Uyghurs. Diess also said in the interview that he was proud to have created jobs in the region.(徳囯ASK电容器)