Videos on social media appear to show some protesters asking leader Xi Jinping to resign.
Protests against Covid restrictions in China appear to have intensified following a fire which killed 10 people in an apartment block in Urumqi.
Many people have blamed their deaths on the lockdown of residential buildings - something Chinese authorities have denied was the cause. Though the situation in the area had calmed by Sunday morning, the BBC saw a heightened police presence in the area of the protest, with several dozen police officers, private security guards and plain-clothed police officers on the streets.
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