 Muhammad Amin Bughra and fellow Pan-Turkic Jadidist and East Turkestan independence activist Masud Sabri rejected the Soviet imposition of the name "Uyghur people" upon the Turkic people of Xinjiang.They wanted instead the name "Turkic ethnicity" (Tujue zu in Chinese) to be applied to their people.Masud Sabri also viewed the Hui people as Muslim Han Chinese and separate from his own people.