This is part of the "Pair Up and Become Family" program innovated by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang Province. Assimilation of minorities using barbaric me

This is part of the "Pair Up and Become Family" program innovated by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang Province. Assimilation of minorities using barbaric methods is common throughout history (e.g taking away the children for "education", forbidding use of native language, etc.), but I have never heard anything like assigning "relatives" to stay at one's house to spy on daily life.