Parents and students of Tibetan and Muslim origin belonging to a local school called the Gangjong School in the Qinghai province's capital Xining, protested on January 24, 2016, outside government offices. They were demanding an investigation into the activities of Ma Trinlung, head of the Education Department of the Bayan Khar (in Chinese, Hualong) Hui Autonomous County in Qinghai’s Tsoshar (Haidong) prefecture. An unidentified source was quoted by Radio Free Asia (RFA) as saying “They are demanding the right to equal education opportunities as granted by the [ruling Chinese] Communist Party and the government.Photos of the protest circulating on social media sites showed protesters criticising Ma Trinlung "for suppressing the right to minority education in poverty-stricken areas and for blocking implementation of the nationalities education policy.”